To celebrate the coming of spring and all the joy that comes with it, I’m having a sale. I am including most of the colorways where I have four skeins or more in stock. That way, you can use this opportunity to make a sweater or big cozy shawl or another big project while it’s still cool enough to wear it before summer. I have something from every yarn base! Here is a small selection of the 40+ colorways included in the sale:

The coupon code will be applied automatically, and the sale begins today (Friday) and lasts through Sunday night. I hope you find something that will bring you joy this spring! This link will take you directly to the sale.

Sample of Monet’s Water Lilies

A couple weeks ago I showed you the new assigned pooling version of Monet’s Water Lilies. I made a “regular” stockinette sample as well as one that shows a couple different assigned pooling techniques so you can see how it works up.

Assigned pooling is both a dye technique and a knitting or crochet method. The yarn is dyed with approximately three quarters in one color or colors and approximately one quarter in a different color or colors. It looks like this:

The knitting pattern or crochet pattern makes use of the dye method, using stitches that show the assigned pooling portion to good effect. However, I wanted to show you how it looks knit “normally” as well.

Here is a sample I knit using two assigned pooling techniques:

The top portion is a bobble stitch I made for the Metamorphosis shawl pattern. The bottom portion is a double-elongated stitch.

This next sample is Monet’s Water Lilies knit in plain old stockinette:

As you can see, the assigned pooling stitches really show off the yarn, but it also looks quite lovely in ordinary stockinette. I really wanted to point this out so that you know you can use assigned pooling yarn for ordinary patterns that don’t call for assigned pooling too.

Upcoming Show and Tell

I’d like to do a Show and Tell newsletter either next week or the week after. If you have a WIP or a FO that you would like to share, please email it to me along with yarn and pattern info. It’s such a joy to see what everyone has been working on, and it is my hope that the projects you share inspire someone else’s next project.

Have a wonderful springy week!