The blog is officially out of hibernation, I've been super busy over the past few weeks trying to dye as much yarn as possible for the shop and for my upcoming show at Wonderwool Wales in April.
I'm happy to present my new yarn base, a gorgeously soft 4 ply cashmere blend that I have named Glock. Why? It's not a love of the famous Austrian GLOCK weapons manufacturer, it is in fact an amalgam of the words gloves and socks (this will not however stop me from citing gun-related puns!). The yarn is also ideal for babywear but I thought if I added another word I would end up with something silly like Glocky, or Bloves...
New colours from the Design Kitchen!
This new collection is very personal to me, it is a re-incarnation of the things I love the most in the form of yarns. I spent a lot of time coming up with the colourways, and I hope that it appeals to my customers as much as they appeal to me!
For now, I have only dyed Classic Cashmere yarns in this collection, but in a few weeks it will be available in Heavenly Infusion as well.
I took my time writing up descriptions for each of the colourways, something I was too lazy/excited/distracted to do with the previous collection.
My lovely friend Ellie has started a KAL for Not Socks in the Chopped Tomatoes Ravelry Group. I cast on the first glove in the first week of Feb and I have been knitting it at the group meets, I am at the hand ribbing section on the first glove so I'm making some decent progress considering the amount of dyeing I've been busy with!
A few members of Cardiff Knitters are taking part, and I'm finding it so interesting to see how the pattern knits up in various yarns, and how people I know are responding to the way that I write my patterns. So far I haven't had any complaints, so I'm happy happy!
The KAL has no official start or end date, so please join in if you have an orphan skein of sock yarn that might have a pair of gloves in it's destiny...
I made this Aeolian Shawl with the Classic Cashmere (100% Pure Mongolian Cashmere from the shop) yarn, in the Farmer's Wife Colourway. I joined the 10 Shawls in 2010 group on Ravelry at the beginning of the year and I'm glad I finished shawl no. 1!
The shawl was knitted and blocked a few weeks ago, but I didn't get the chance to take photos of it until recently. It was knitted on 4mm needles, and used less than one 50g skein. I have a stack of 'oops' yarns (skeins that have dyed weird, accidentally snapped in places etc) that I'm going to use up in the challenge.