This week I have some lovely fresh-dyed semi-solid and tonal colorways for spring. Here’s Rose Petals: This was the semi-solid colorway I made to go with the April clubs, and I dyed a couple extras for the shop on Sock Perfection. It’s in the same color family as Rosy-Fingered Dawn, Coral, and Begonia. All four… Read More Fresh Spring Colorways
This week I had a chance to dye up some new silk scarves. I love seeing how the colors play together! Even when I dye more than one at the same time, each one turns out a little differently. – After trying out a variety of different types of silk scarves, I think I have… Read More Fresh-Dyed Silk Scarves
This week I published a new shawl pattern called Field of Flowers. It’s a top-down crescent shawl, and it uses two skeins of assigned-pooling yarn. I used Monet’s Water Lilies on Sock Perfection for the sample, but any fingering-weight assigned pooling colorway will work. Here’s the front: …and here’s the back: It has assigned pooling… Read More Field of Flowers Shawl Pattern
I’m having a semi-secret spring sale on all in-stock Splendid Sport, Squoosh DK, Buttery Soft DK, and Squoosh Worsted! Click here to see everything in the sale. Use the coupon code SPRING15 to take 15% off the listed prices. Here are just a few of the squishy soft skeins in the sale: I’m going to… Read More Spring Sale
Spring is my favorite time of year, and I know I’m not the only one. When we lived in Michigan, a friend told me not to expect spring until May, and I was so glad she warned me. I had spent most of my life in more southern climates and always expected spring by March.… Read More It’s Tulip Time!
This week I have been working behind the scenes to make my website a little more sleek and streamlined. Now you can filter your search by yarn weight, yarn base, and dye method for Yarn Ready to Ship and by dye method for Yarn Dyed to Order. You can choose multiple filters at the same… Read More Behind the Scenes
I have some beautiful projects to share with you this week. Let’s start with Anne who finished both the 2024 and 2025 Advent calendars recently. For 2025 she crocheted Dawn Barker’s Agnes Shawl: Here it is hung up: Isn’t that lovely? Anne said she changed the order of the colorways to work well with the… Read More Show and Tell – February 2025
This week I dyed up some lovely silk scarves that would be great for Valentine’s Day and beyond. Meanwhile my daughter Elizabeth made some beautiful stitch markers with the same idea. They’ll make you smile all year long! Let’s start with the scarves. They are all made of fine mulberry silk, but I have a… Read More Just in Time for Valentine’s
A couple weeks back I asked for your opinion about adding a sport-weight yarn base and whether you preferred it to include nylon or not. Many of you told me that you really enjoy sport weight, and most of you said you preferred it without nylon. Your wish is my command! This week I added… Read More Your Wish Is My Command
About this time last year, I decided to create four colorways inspired by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. I listened carefully to the music and also thought about the seasons themselves and how best to dye the colorways to match the seasons. The colorways form a complex gradient. Each season gets darker but also contains some of… Read More Four Seasons Shawl
