About us

Acorn & Oak Fibers (Formerly Why Knot Fibers) is a small hand-dyed yarn company and fiber mill out of Traverse City in northern Michigan.

Kat has been knitting and crocheting since she was small, and started dyeing yarn around 2010. From there, she has followed her curiosity and worked with farmers, mills, and designers to create unique yarns, fun colorways, and lovely timeless kits. Now, Kat and her husband, Steve have expanded out to creating some of their own yarn bases, spinning fibers, and soon, processing fibers for others. 

Jill is the designer behind The Bean Knits, a knitwear design company that specializes in interesting and unique construction and timeless garments. Her teaching experience spans decades and her attention to fun details makes her patterns a delight.

Jill and Kat have worked together and supported eachother for years, being each other's "connection to the outside world" during the pandemic shutdown and building patterns and yarns around the other's ideas, collaborating on just about everything - and all up in each others business, literally.