Our Story
It’s a story as old as time - boy meets girl, girl mentions she likes to knit, boy moves in, boy realizes she really wasn’t kidding. Luckily this story has a happy ending. Stephanie convinced Peter that the world of hand-dyed yarn offers as much intrigue, creative thinking and browsing of the internet as being an international superspy. Van Der Rock Yarns is based in Kingston, Ontario, in a little white clapboard house.
 
Our Colourways
We love both the reliability of a standard group of colourways and the delight of an unpredictable one-of-a-kind skein, so we aim to have the best of both worlds available. Our ‘Usual Suspects’ tag denotes the colourways we’ve committed to. So go ahead and plan a bigger project using VDR yarns in these colourways. We’ll always have them. Every single skein of VDR yarn is dyed individually, so we don't use dyelots. Let us know if you are planning a larger project and we will match your skeins as closely as possible.  Our ‘Special Guests’ tag is reserved for handpaints or limited edition colourways and bases. It keeps things interesting - for us and for you.
 
Our Base Yarns
We’ve chosen a small range of base yarns to start our business with. We've selected them with an eye to balancing quality and value. These are not luxury yarn bases, but they are soft, strong and long-lasting. We are always keeping an eye out for new base yarns to add to our arsenal, so if there’s something in particular you’d like to see in the shop, let us know.

Our Photographs
We use a semi-professional set up to take our pictures. Because all of our pictures use the same lighting, we hope that comparing them will help you get an accurate sense of the colours. We also take new pictures of our Usual Suspects every three months to ensure any changes in the dye process are being reflected in the photography. We occasionally do some colour correction in Photoshop when needed, but our aim is to get an accurate photograph without tweaking. If you are a member of Ravelry, you  can view stash photos of our yarns, taken by our customers.