Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association
The “fiber guild of fiber guilds” for the Mid-Atlantic States in the USA.
MAFA’s resources page is a great place to expand your horizons. https://mafafiber.org/resources/
Ravelry
Ravelry is an inclusive, friendly website for knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers, and dyers. We are made up of millions of yarn lovers from all over the world. Ravelry provides a personal notebook for fiber artists to keep track of their projects, yarns & fibers, tools, and pattern library, a rich database of patterns and yarns, and a community with thousands of forums and groups to connect with other Ravelers over any interest you could think of.
Everything on Ravelry is user-driven: we all help to make the site useful and fun. There are three main areas of Ravelry for you to explore: database, your notebook and community.
These three Ravelry groups are associated with the Fiber Guild of the Blue Ridge: one for the Guild as a whole, one for our knitting, and one for spinning:
https://www.ravelry.com/groups/fiber-guild-of-the-blue-ridge
https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/knitters-of-the-blue-ridge
https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/spinners-of-the-blue-ridge
YarnSub
Just like the name says. This site helps knitters and crocheters find yarns with the same characteristics (but maybe already in their stash!) as yarns specified in a particular pattern. http://yarnsub.com
Knitting Reference Library
Resources digitised by the Library Digitisation Unit, University of Southampton
The Knitting Reference Library (KRL) includes the published works collected by Montse Stanley, Richard Rutt and Jane Waller. These comprise books, exhibition catalogues, knitting patterns, journals and magazines.
… The earliest published work is dated 1840 the most recent published in September 2012.
… All the books have been catalogued and are on open access. The knitting patterns, journals and magazines are all kept in our store on site for which we run a collection service. We have recently listed the knitting patterns by collector followed by type of knitwear then organised by decades. A selection of the patterns have been digitised but is dependent on copyright clearance.