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To celebrate the release of Lynn D’s Studio’s Mirla cowl pattern we are having a giveaway! Enter to win the Mirla cowl pattern plus two skeins of Swanky DK! To enter:
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3. Repost and tag #magpiemirlagiveaway
Just added to our online store: 6 inspired new colorways in our popular Tibetan Dream Sock Yarn, perfect for summertime knitting! Choose from the following variegated and shaded solid hues: Adobe, Belize, Burple, Cenote, Iced Latte, and Pink Lemonade. Each one is hand-dyed in limited quantities by Miss Babs, so don’t let the proverbial grass grow under your feet — when they’re gone, they’re gone!
Now through August 31, each order placed in our shop qualifies you to win $100 in hand-dyed goodness! That’s enough for a sweater… a few shawls… or a season of socks. Full details are on our welcome page. By the end of August, we’ll be stocked up on all the newest colors in worsted. And to entice you, here’s a brand new colorway on Titanium Sock — “Just Another Band Out of Boston.”
Thanks for supporting this indie dyer!
Invictus Yarns is thrilled to have our first booth at Stitches MidWest this year! (okay, so we’re kind of nervous, too, but mostly thrilled.) The show is August 6-9 in Schaumburg, IL, so the yarn will be making a nice jaunt across the country. You may notice that the shop will be really low on merchandise starting around July 27 to make sure that it has plenty of time to get to the convention center and get ready to meet you. I’ll have things back up and running as soon as things come back home after the event.
If you’re going to be attending, please stop by booth 829, say hello and maybe even swap a stitch marker! We’ll have a bit of everything for you to see in person and a special limited edition colorway, too! Heartland will be available on several bases at the show but will not be redyed for the shop afterward, so be sure to pick it up while you’re there.
Hope to see you in a few weeks!
For many months now I’ve been squirrelling away on a huge project — my first collection of designs for Kettle Yarn Co.! It is finally ready for release, so without further ado, may I introduce… drumroll… The Boardwalk Collection!
Available individually by the designers directly on Ravelry, the collection of six patterns was inspired by walking down a historic British pier and the vibrant designs capture the light-hearted excitement of a day at the seaside.
From the publication text:
The thrill of walking down a buzzing seaside pier is the inspiration behind Kettle Yarn Co.’s new The Boardwalk Collection in the new luminous hues of ISLINGTON DK.
Featuring six vibrant designs from Renée Callahan, Rachel C. Brown, Rachel Coopey, Isabell Kraemer, Maria Magnusson and me, the collection spans summer to autumn with heirloom items you’ll love all year!
We’ve decided to showcase all the amazing patterns in the collection with a grand blog tour! The designers will be talking about their designs and we also have some lovely reviewers and podcasts scheduled, so you can find out what they think of the Islington DK first hand.
There will be giveaways and a KAL later on, so join my Ravelry group to keep on top of the offers and follow the tour to see all the goodies we have in store for you.
Hope you all love it as much as I do! 😉
For a limited time, I’ve worked up some Rocket Sock in a few must-have tonal gradients. This 2-ply yarn is fabulous for socks, especially summer-weight, lacey socks, but have you tried it for lace shawls and scarves? It’s absolutely ideal! A much lighter alternative to 4-ply fingering weight yarns, Rocket Sock tonals will give you a beautiful, radiant fabric without unsightly the unsightly pooling of most hand-dyed yarns. As well, the colors are well-fixed so you don’t have to worry about fading or bleeding. Because the fiber is superwash merino blended with a bit of nylon, you get a clearer stitch definition, longer wear, and better blocking results than you will with a typical superwash yarn.
Four colorways are now available in limited quantities in the Cedar Hill Farm Company online shop: Wild Blue Yonder, Buy Me Roses, Irish Eyes, and Always a Bridesmaid.
I’ve decided to change the way I list colourways in my shop recently, and to a lesser extent the way that I dye certain OOAK skeins.
When I first started dyeing, I had so many ideas in my head about colourways that I dyed just one skein at a time to get as many colourways as I could out into the world. I would occasionally add multiples of incredibly popular colourways, but most remained with just having one skein dyed, one skein listed.
Recently the demand for some colourways has been huge, and they have been selling out before people manage to get their hands on them — so I have decided to add pre-orders to my Etsy shop. This is for a key range of some of my most popular repeatable colourways, such as my Tokyo Mew Mew range and my Adventure Time range. This means you can now purchase up to five skeins of them at a time, and I will custom dye them for you.
To begin with I have added the following yarns to the store as pre-orders: Team Rainbow, Glamour Prism, Ichigo, Zakuro, Mint, Lettuce, Celestial Resonator, The Nightosphere and Electric Sheep.
In addition to this I have also added two new colourways to my core range. The Grand Budapest Hotel as the first part of a Wes Anderson-inspired line and Burmecia as part of my long-running Final Fantasy range.
So, at the moment the shop is full to the brim of bright colourways waiting to grace your needles and bask in the sunshine to become socks or a shawl… or whatever else you can think of!
I hope to see you there!
The monthly update from Eden Cottage Yarns will be live on 5th July 2015 at 1400 BST. It’s a bumper offering this month, with everything from Aisling kits through to beautifully hand carved wooden sheep and shawl pins, all the way from our master craftsman in Japan. Would you like a sneaky preview of what will be on offer? Walk this way!
First up, we have both the original combination of Ice and Rambling Rose on Titus 4ply (75% merino, 25% silk) in the Aisling Kits. The Aisling shawl was designed by Justyna Lorkowska for Edinburgh Yarn Festival and has been hugely popular since. Confession time: we’re a little Aisling-mad over here and have created a number of colour combinations over the past few updates, including the latest one, which is Whispering Grass and Hibiscus. This adds a more earthy edge to the romantic styling of the Aisling design and we love it. Of course, if you’d like to go wild and design your own colour combination, you can make it into a kit by purchasing the Aisling kit add-on.
If shawls are your thing, but you’d like some mindless summer knitting in the form of squishy, effortless garter stitch, we’ve also put together some limited edition Quadratic kits. This design was created by our own David O’Kelly and has been another popular shawl. Grab your ready-wound yarnling and main colour combinations or indeed use up special yarn leftovers in this versatile project. (Psst! We also have a handful of yarnling jars available. It’s JUST like being in a sweet shop!)
We almost died of cute when the latest shipment of hand-carved sheep, lambs and penguins arrived from Wood Works Crando in Japan. There are a variety of sheep breeds to choose from, including Herdwick and Suffolk, as well as little lambs to make your sheepy family complete! Also available are beautifully crafted wooden shawl pins, perfect for keeping your knitwear secure with rounded edges to prevent damage to delicates.
And as well as all that….
There’s a whole heap of Titus 4ply, BFL Sock and Oakworth 4ply (100% polwarth) in various shades from our standard range along with some new variations for you.
It’s a lot to remember, so if you’d like to be kept up to date (and receive a handy email reminder as the update goes live) you can sign up for our newsletter here.
I’ve just opened signups for the next round of Yarn Knot, my yarn subscription service. The format now includes a sweater option. The sweater installment will ship in August, so you can get a jump-start on your Rhinebeck sweater . . . or any other sweater.
There are three fingering weight shipments, and one of them will be a 2-color project. All colorways are exclusive. Installment payments are available. See website for details. Space is limited.
Some of you will have also seen my new FO Talavera from the latest Pom Pom Quarterly, as I am so thrilled with it I have been splashing images of it EVERYWHERE! ;-P
A super quick knit that takes only 71g= 378.5 meters of one 533m skein of Westminster, the lace is super easy and it only takes a couple weeks. Plenty of time to whip one up for this summer!
I’ve restocked the Westminster baby camel/silk Gold Rush and Florence for this week’s update and now have an incredible, sparkling range of hues available for anyone planning a precious Talavera of your own!
Shop update tomorrow – Friday July 3rd – at 5pm GMT.
