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Deep Winter
I wrote some time ago about Wool & Pine’s Deep Winter Coat. The coat can be knit in a worsted weight held double strand but our new Cascade 220 Superwash Grande can be knit single strand. New...
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Trine Weekender KAL
Spincycle Yarns is holding a KAL for Andrea Mowry’s Weekender Sweater (pattern purchased on Ravelry). The knit-along will run from February 18th - May 20th. To enter, all you have to do is post a photo...
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Ranunculus
Someone on Instagram posted pictures of The Shift that they knit using only one colour. All three of her skeins were very different and I really like how it looked. You guessed it. I had to try it....
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Rabbits
It’s time to rearrange. I have thoughts in my head about how we are going to move yarn around. I think about it every night before falling asleep to figure out where everything is going to go. The...
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Dreaming
I’m dreaming of Practically Perfect Smalls and have been looking at patterns on Ravelry. Melanie Berg’s True Colors is perfect.Let your true colors shine in this eye-catching shawl! Whether your style...
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Early Morning
It’s 7am and I’ve already been working for over an hour. Beth had to be up at 5 to get to a meeting out of town so I set my alarm to make sure she woke up. I could have gone back to sleep but decided...
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Emma’s Yarns
Ms. UPS brought a huge box this morning with pretty yarn from Emma’s Yarns. The colours are beautiful. Lynn opened the box and was fondling the skeins. She really liked the twist on the yarn and took a...
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New Project
This is Ambah O’Brien’s Grevillia Shawl. I have loved the shawl for quite some time and today I cast it on.Gorgeous Grevilleas, a flower native to Australia, come in a wide array of colours. When I was...
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Moving Day
I made it through the first chart repeat. Two more repeats before I start the colours.Lynn worked with me today and we did a lot of moving around.The worsted weight room was where we worked today. The...
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Wedges
Stephen West has a new pattern. You can purchase the pattern for the Fragmentation Shawl on Ravelry.Choose seven colors of fingering weight yarn to create this fragmented geometric shawl. This top-down...
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Win a Bag of Rowan Felted Tweed
Welcome if this is your first time visiting the blog. I write about new yarns, new patterns, what I’m working on, new store samples, customer’s finished garments and I show lots of pictures of our...
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Lady Aston Sock
Our good friend Kate Atherley has a new sock pattern. The Lady Aston sock pattern can be purchased on Ravelry.This sock is worked top down. The patterning combines two of my favourite techniques—cables...
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La Prairie
Today was the day to put together combinations for Joji Locatelli’s La Prairie. These kits are online and I will keep making more combinations. That is a chore for this week. I know that there will be...
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Happy Family Day
We had lots of family time today. I hope you had a good day as well. There was lots of knitting time as well. My Nightshift is almost finished.I was emailing with Hedgehog Fibres today and our order...
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Six More Weeks
Laura Aylor has a new sweater pattern. You can purchase the pattern for Six More Weeks on Ravelry.A cropped, A-line, top-down adaptation of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Hurry-Up Last Minute/Wishbone...
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Snow Day Tomorrow
I’m about to start the fifth colour. There should be a lot of knitting tomorrow because it looks like the store is going to be closed. The forecast isn’t looking good.The pattern for the Grevillia...
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Hipster
When I open my iPad it shows me pictures from the past. This morning it was Lynn wearing her Hipster knit in Madelinetosh DK. She used the colour Night Bloom. The shawl was designed by Joji Locatelli...
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I have a bag problem
This morning Atenti emailed me that they had new fabrics for spring. Hope Baskets will be coming in these new fabrics. My guess is that they will arrive sometime in April.A roomy stand-alone project...
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Hurry up spring
I wanted bright, happy pictures today. It’s time to start thinking about spring.This is Gamut knit out of Noro Tsubame - one ball each of 20 and 26. I love these colours and will definitely be wearing...
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Summer Sorrel
I’m continuing my bright, happy colours themed posts.This sweater is called Summer Sorrel from Wool & Pine (Pattern purchased on Ravelry.)Summer Sorrel is a charming short-sleeved tee for...
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