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With the wonderful reception of my March Madness Mini surprise set, I decided to create a summer surprise set: A Mini Summer Night's Dream! Come and join in the fun — this listing will be open for a short time and the sets will be made in a very limited number, so order early to avoid disappointment. Early in June, you will receive a set of 12 ethereal and dreamy mini skeins to open each day leading up to the solstice from June 9th-20th. If you like magical, summery, Shakespearian and speckly colors — than this set is for You! See the mood board for an idea of what colors I am dreaming up. These can be knit up as unwrapped each day or you can arrange and work them up after they are all revealed. It’s up to you! Each skein will be individually wrapped and numbered and there will, of course, be a few extra fun, dreamy and summery goodies tucked in here and there. You have your choice of 3 base yarns and the option to add a Dreamy Full Size skein in the same base.

I have been loving working on my Westknits Painting Honeycombs Shawl (using the minis from my March Madness set) – what a perfect pattern for all those fun little packets of color.

Speaking of mini skeins — I have about 100 colorways available made to order on 5 bases! Pop at Nothing and Sunny Side Up are a particularly striking combo for summer. I recently packed up an order of these minis and couldn't help but snap a photo when I saw them together. Another gorgeous combo one of my customers recently chose is Lobster Cream and Pop Cream (shown here with a Soak Wash single pack. I have been selling Soak wash in 3 sizes and in all of it's glorious scents in my shop since last summer).

The Full Moon for April was the Pink Moon and here is a photo of the Colorway from this year's Full Moon Yarn Series. May's Full Moon yarn will be opening soon! Sign up for my Newsletter or check my Instagram to get notified.

And finally, my 2021 Advent Calendars are still available for preorder – thank you to all who have purchased one! It seems early, but so much work goes into these that I will be happy to get started early this year!

Hello Friends!

This month over here at Pancake and Lulu, I have been working on having regular mini shop updates along with the release of weekly episodes of my new YouTube podcast. The podcast is going great and I have just recorded Episode 5. Thank you to all who have subscribed, watched, liked and commented! I wasn’t sure if or what it would become when I sat down to record that first episode, but now I have come to look forward to the weekly routine and the connection with the knitting podcast community. So, if you haven’t already, please check it out and sign up for my newsletter for the updates!

Each week, I have been making sure I have some new yarns to list (as well as old favorites). Currently in my shop I have a new colorful primary speckle on white called FUNFETTI. Also just listed is DARK FAIRY, which was a happy accident that I have decided to keep around for a while. I also released a new colorway called RASPBERRY TRUFFLE, which was one of my recent PLYarn Club colors of the month. It was so pretty, I wanted to make it available to all.

In knitting news, I finished my Love Note Sweater in time for Valentine’s Day! I created a kit using my LOVE LETTER colorway paired with my BONE Suri Silk and these are also available in my shop. I also knit up the Every Bit Cowl by Telly Bean Knits in my CAPPUCCINO colorway and added a bobble bind-off. There is a mini tutorial on how to do the bind-off in my latest YouTube episode.

It’s hard to believe that winter is almost over – it has been so mild here in New Jersey – I am still holding out that there will be one more snow!

xx,
Aimee

Hello and Happy End of Summer! I took a long vacay this summer up to my lake cabin in the beautiful Adirondacks – it was so peaceful. And it was a big adjustment back to dyeing and business. But I am super excited to be back — it was such a long break that I actually missed my business — but that is because I love what I do!

I did do some work while on vacation — I created a whole new website for Pancake and Lulu! I learned a ton and am so excited to introduce the new site this week. I know it is not perfect but it is live (I just had to go for it, despite my tendency toward striving for perfection — I’m a Virgo ????). Please go check out www.pancakeandlulu.com and let me know how you like it and if you have any suggestions to improve it or notice anything really wonky.

For my friends at Indie Untangled, I have a special offer: use the code INDIEFRIEND and get 20% off any orders placed through my new site. This offer is good through 9/2/19.

Since I have been back to work, I have created some gorgeous color collections for the end of summer and early fall. I am highlighting these here. These are made to order and available on any base — full and minis. Pictured are: Pop Leaves, Squirrel Jam and It’s Always Sunny.

During the summer, I had ample time to knit. My three big projects while on vacation were Drea Renee Knits’ Comfort Fade Cardi (just finished it but no FO pictures yet), Boyland Knitwork’s Sipila and Moon Sisters Shawl — both still in progress. Hopefully they will be done by Rhinebeck! I have a kit for the Moon Sisters Shawl available in my shop, available in both the original shades and my wild violet/lime version.

That’s about it for now. I’m super excited to be a vendor at The Indie Untangled Trunk Show this October and I am busily prepping for that — more on that next time.

xx, Aimee at PLYarn