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Christmas in July is in full swing here at Southern Skeins!
Our 2022 Rudolph and Friends-themed Advent calendars are available for preorder once again!
There are six Advent calendar options available for purchase to fit everyone’s budgets. Each calendar option features 24 mini skeins of our beautiful hand-dyed yarn.
The elves have been working especially hard on this Advent calendar so be sure to place your order today!
Happy July!
July is Tour de Fleece month and I hope you are all happily spinning away! If you need more fiber to spin during the tour, or to refill your stash for after, I have a little something for you: Forest, my newest fiber braid in fun shades of green, inspired by a walk in the forest!
Here are the details of Forest:
– 57g (2oz)
– 100% wool (Romney)
– $11 per braid
As always, I purchased the raw fleece and then processed and dyed it by hand. So lots of my love and passion for fiber crafts went into these braids!
You can find Forest, as well as other fiber and also some yarn, on my website.
And if you want to be among the first to get notified about new updates AND receive exclusive discounts, including free shipping, consider becoming a fiber pack member by subscribing to my (free) monthly newsletter here.
Who’s ready for BBQ, fireworks and spending time with those relatives you really didn’t want to see?? Since July is almost always unbearably hot, I decided a slushie drink would be a perfect way to beat the heat.
This month’s drink and colorway are inspired by the good old red, white and blue. Don’t think tonal, think speckles!
Christmas in July continues over at Olive & Two Ewe Studios with two new colorways and a FREE Holiday Project Tracker.
Gingerbread Man debuted last week to hungry fiberistas who quickly made Gingerbread Man Sock Sets go to preorder status and caused a couple other bases to sell out! Preorders continue, so be sure to get in on the yummy fun.
Hard Candy Christmas is brand new this week and is available on multiple bases as well as their expanded (one full hank, two minis) Sock Set! The two-mini Sock Set is a great idea as it creates ultimate versatility and options when planning socks.
To help take some of the panic out of holiday gift planning, we (Carolyn and Michelle) are offering our FREE downloadable Holiday Project Tracker. With space to jot down the names of gift recipients, patterns, and notes, it provides a place for you to see your progress and plans at a glance.
Christmas in July is in full swing in our Facebook group, The Yarny Ewes, and everyone is invited to join. The group offers a supportive environment and features exclusive opportunities for members.
Be sure to catch our Saturday morning LIVE! podcast at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time or watch at your leisure on our channel for giveaways and more fun.
Summer is the time I most love my home in the Hudson Valley. After the beautiful but bleak colors of an upstate winter, I soak up the amazing range of hues nature offers. I don’t even have to step outside to enjoy our avian friends, as long as the bears leave our strategically placed bird feeders alone.
New colors Grackle and Grosbeak both feature layers of moody tones, with warm and iridescent golds peaking through, overdyed with a brilliant blue. Tadpole Alley is amphibian green in a sea of azure inspired by activity in our seasonal stream in the late spring. Grackle comes on Deep Sock, Neptune Merino DK and may be the most stunning version on Harbour Merino Singles fingering. Grosbeak, for now, comes on Deep Sock and Neptune, while Tadpole Alley needs the subtle sheen of Harbour to really wow.
Moving farther afield, I am lucky to have quick access to the many mountain groups in the area, which prompted me to create Bear Mountain and The Gunks — the loving nickname for the Shawangunks, a mecca for climbers across the Northeast. Built from layers of stone and verdant greens, they both have subtle specks of sunlight and earthy deep brown. In addition to offering these two on Deep Sock and Neptune Merino DK, I dyed up a five color mini skein set in fingering called Catskill Climber.
Perhaps unrelated but still sitting pretty with this new grouping is French Roast, inspired by one of the most important things in my life! Successive dye baths of three different browns makes this a truly rich brew. Available on Deep Sock and Triton MCN DK.
Since I dyed all of these using my favorite technique of laying bath after bath of different colors, it’s not surprising how they fit so well in my existing range, and that I feel like I’ve been dyeing them forever.
We are so excited about this month’s subscription box!
This month’s colorway is called: Sunday Sundae! We wanted to celebrate summer and found the most adorable ice cream cone charms for the exclusive stitch markers!
With our subscription box, you pick the yarn weight, we pick the colorway. And as long as you are a subscriber to the club, you get discounts on the ENTIRE site! It is the perfect gift for yourself or for your favorite fiber artist in your life!
Bondi is one of Australia’s most iconic beaches. Why not go to the beach in style, carrying a one-of-a-kind beach bag? The design was inspired by crochet granny square bags. Using mosaic knitting takes the classic design to the next level!
I hope that you are all well. We have been keeping busy at ECY Shedquarters to distract ourselves from the news cycle of constant doom and gloom.
Our most recent update was Hayton 4ply – our Merino, Cashmere, nylon blend. This yarn is super soft but also has strength to it making it ideal for shawls and accesories but also for garments. Alongside Titus 4ply, this is one of our bestsellers so we were really excited to have this yarn back on the website. There is still plenty to choose from and we have added new yarn packs and skein pairs to the website, all of which can be found on the Hayton 4ply page of the website.
Before that we had an update of Pendle 4ply which is our Superwash Extrafine Merino. It is soft, squishy, strong, has a good lustre to it, and it takes colours really nicely too. It’s a great all-rounder (although many of my yarns are tbh). It’s just as good in a lace shawl as a cabled garment, for example. There are loads to choose from with plenty of colour combinations; many of which are available as yarn packs.
ECY yarn enabler Claire has finished her Magic Circles wrap (pattern by Janie Crow) and it is stunning! Claire chose a whole new palette of Milburn DK for hers and it works so well that we have added kits for it to the website. This palette has been called Autumn Woodland to reflect the browns, yellow and greens which are the most prominent colours. We have yarn packs with and without the pattern and they can be found along with all other Magic Circles products on the website HERE.
A little while ago Laura and I noticed that we were out of stock of Aisling patterns by Justyna Lorkowska. This beautiful two colour shawl has been a favourite ever since its release and we still regularly sell yarn for it. With all the changes in EU/UK trade over the past couple of years, among other factors, we are no longer going to stock physical printed copies of this pattern BUT we have purchased download codes for Aisling and a couple of other patterns that can be redeemed on Justyna’s website for digital copies. The other restocked patterns are Holyrood and Maya’s Shawl. For each of these designs we have the digital download code and an add-on kit as a separate product. While we have the yarn in stock for Aisling we also have kits for this design which include the two skeins of yarn (one skein each of Titus 4ply in Campanula and Rambling Rose), a project bag and the download code which will be printed on a business card.
Holyrood uses two skeins of Harewood Fingering which is 100% BFL but with high twist construction. This yarn is out of stock but many other of our 4ply/fingering weight yarns would work just as well. For example the second sample for this pattern uses Bedale 4ply in Alpine and Steel. We have Dianthus and Steel in stock of this yarn which would give a similar finished project. Please note that if you use Bedale is in 50g skeins and so you will need two skeins of each colour. For Maya’s Shawl we have kits in stock which use Whitfell Chunky in your choice of the available colours. The add-on kit for Maya’s Shawl means you can choose any colour of Pendle Chunky for this beautiful design; you will need three skeins. You can find all of Justyna’s patterns on the ECY website here.
At the start of this post I mentioned Hayton 4ply skein pairs. These are two skeins of yarn chosen to work well together for any two colour pattern. We also have pairs of Titus 4ply with Eldwick Lace that were put together for Helda Panagary’s crocheted Herringbone Brick Shawl design. The pattern uses different coloured stripes but would work just as well with the difference in textures of the two yarns. We also have a limited number of copies of Helda’s Herringbone Brick Shawl pattern to purchase on our website and as part of an add-on kit. You can see all available sets here.
Everyone knows that when you need a crochet hook, you can’t find one. It’s jettisoned itself from your project. It’s lost in the sofa cushions. It’s ended up in your kid’s toybox. SOMEONE perhaps borrowed it and kept it. Or it may just be behind your ear but you can’t check because you need it to fix a reprehensible error in your knitting that needs you to hold on with both hands.
Okay, perhaps these can’t help with that last one, but at least these give you a slight advantage of being able to find them.
These are a set of three crochet hooks — 2.0mm, 3.0mm, and 4.0mm — that have been cut down to a smaller length and attached to lobster clasps so you can hook them to your project, your project bag, your zipper, your purse, what have you. Each crochet hook as been festooned with words to express your current feeling:
“OOPS” — 2.0mm hook
“CRAP” — 3.0mm hook
“MINE” — 4.0mm hook
Available in either black or white letter beads!
If these words just don’t speak to you, you also have the option of personalizing your crochet hooks with the words that please you most! (EIGHT letters maximum on EACH hook) And don’t worry about embarrassing me with your request — I was raised by a sailor AND I have a theatre degree AND I used to work with rock-n-roll roadies. There’s extraordinarily little that can make me blush. AND you can choose either white or black beads on your personalization.
We’re celebrating Christmas in July with all the goodies to get you ready for the holidays! Each week, new holiday-inspired colorways will be released on a variety of our scrumptious bases.
Access to our special holiday Stitching Kits is available now for only a few more days! Choose from either the Christmas Crafter’s Edition or the Hanukkah Crafter’s Edition. Kits will be chock full of yarn and various other craft supplies to get you started creating ornaments and/or other holiday-related small decor or other projects.
This event will be the last chance to get in on our Twelve Days of Christmas and Eight Night of Hanukkah calendars as well! Each calendar will feature brand new colorways and extra holiday goodies along with a LIVE opening each day of the Twelve Days and Eight Nights!
Be sure to join our Facebook group, The Yarny Ewes for even more fun and exclusive information and access to Special Features.
Check out our LIVE! podcast every Saturday morning at 9:30 am Eastern Time on YouTube (you can also watch older episodes now)!
