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Come by the shop for my End of Summer Sale. Many skeins marked down to make room for new yarn bases and colourways. Also check out my Instagram feed (@sunshine_stewart) before the end of the month to enter the giveaway and win yourself a 100g skein of your choice of base and colourway.
Cupcake Mini Skein Sets available on a superwash DK or 75 superwash Merino / 25% nylon sock base. All sets come with twelve 10g mini skeins for a lovely pastel rainbow with or without sprinkles.
New colourways and old favorites now back in stock on my new ridiculously soft sock base. Colourways pictured include: Painting of Koi, Jezebel and Lipstick on Your Collar. All available in 100g skeins of Superwash Merino sock weight wool – 75% merino wool and 25% nylon for hand or machine knitting. Beautifully soft Merino with nylon for a bit of extra stretch and strength. Each 100g hank is about 465 yards / 425 meters.
All wool is hand dyed in single or small batches then washed and dried ready to be knit up into your own unique creation.
I’ve had great fun the last couple of months trying out new bases and colourways. New to the shop are some British sourced and spun Blue Faced Leicester and Merino, both in Aran and DK weights. There are also some gorgeously soft and durable Superwash Merino Sock and High Twist Superwash BFL Sock waiting for a new adventure on someone’s needles. Also in the works is a massive restock of minis!
As well as selling hand dyed wool and patterns on Etsy under My Mama Knits, I also have patterns for sale on Ravelry. For the month of March I am running a buy-one-get-one-free pattern sale on Ravelry. Just use the code ‘instamarch16’ at checkout. Ravelry is a great place to explore patterns and see what other fibre enthusiasts have made.
20 new colourways inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll are available in superwash merino DK and a sock weight mix of 75% wool and 25% nylon. Grab yourself a single 100g skein or a multi-pack of miniskeins. Themed project bags and stitch markers are also available.
Alice in Wonderland was always a favorite of mine. The vivid characters of the Disney cartoon helped colour my imagination as a child and some of the new colourways are obviously influenced by the film. Other characters (yarns) come straight from the book. Rereading it now, I was surprised at how little colour is mentioned. In fact, for such a lively tale, there is very little in the way of description of colour and appearance at all. But leaving so much to the imagination is where the fun begins!
I have kept this series strictly to the characters in the book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which leaves out a few familiar characters that appear in the later book, Through the Looking-Glass (and What Alice Found There). I save these in my head for perhaps another dyeing adventure.
Just in time for Valentine’s comes my latest giveaway. Win yourself a set of five 50g skeins of hand-dyed yarn selected from my new series, Bad Romance. There will be at least one gradient in the winning pack and the skeins will be on a mix of bases, including Merino Superwash DK and 4ply Sock wool for a total of 250g of yarny delights.
Details on entering can be found via this Instagram post.
The contest will close on 12 noon GMT Valentine’s Day and the winner will be chosen randomly on February 15. International entrants welcome (c:
Everything you need to release your inner superhero or henchman, this seamless circular pattern is worked from the bottom up and includes a choice of four sizes to fit both young and old alike. The brim can be folded up for use as a regular hat or down when your identity must remain unknown. So cozy, they can be used every day or as part of a costume. Three hat styles include goodies and baddies for role playing fun. Charts for the letter A and lightning flashes are also provided for extra customisation.
Sizes: 1-2yr (3-6yr, youth/small adult, adult)
Materials:
4mm / 6 US Double Pointed needles and circular needles
DK Yarn – Less than 50g total in your choice of colors.
Stitch Marker
Darning needle
Gauge: 6 stitches per inch or 24 x 36 = 4 inches of stockinette.
If you want to ensure a good fit, do try to obtain the gauge before starting out.
From along the waterline, across the moors, and in the darkness of forest and cave come five new colourways inspired by Scottish Ledgend and Myth. Go on – create something legendary with a sampler pack of five mini skeins inspired by rugged Scotland.
100g of 4-ply sock weight wool – 75% wool and 25% nylon for hand or machine knitting. The nylon gives the wool a bit of extra stretch and strength.
You will recieve approximately 20 grams of each of the following colourways in your Scottish Myths and Ledgends pack to make up 100 grams (376 yards / 344 meters) in total:
Sawney Bean
Loch Ness Monster
Kelpie
Burke and Hare
Will o’ the Wisp
All wool is hand dyed in single or small batches then washed and dried, ready to be knit up into your own unique creation. Suitable for machine washing but hand washing is preferable. Dry flat.
These colourways are also available as full 100g skeins on either sock weight or DK superwash wool.
