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Sweet & Spicy 3
New sock yarn arrived today from Opal.
This collection offers a variety of choices for each and every sweet fanatic. Sweet fruit nougat, sour fruit gums or spicy black cumin, these eight breathtaking colors, there is no way you could miss a flavor.
All colours are available in the store and on the website...
Meadowside
This top down shawl uses two different coloured balls of Debbie Bliss Rialto Luxury Sock yarn. Starting with a garter tab cast on, striped garter stitch sections seperate a simple eyelet pattern.
Pattern: Meadowside (purchased on Ravelry)
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Rialto Luxury Sock
Fabulous Frabjous
New mini-skein kits have arrived from Frabjous Fibers.
Cheshire Cat fingering: 128 yards per 1 oz. skein, 640 yards total 100% merino wool
See all the kits on the website...
Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe
One of my favourite all time projects is the Color Play Mohair Wrap. The pattern is from Churchmouse Yarns and the yarn is Kidsilk Haze Stripe from Rowan. We have copies of the pattern in the store or you can purchase on Ravelry.
From Churchmouse
We played with four self-striping colorways of our favorite mohair and silk blend. The colors really do mix, mingle, sweep and swirl in unexpected and wonderful ways! No two pieces will ever be alike. Stretch your color horizons by choosing even just one colorway that you wouldn't normally choose—you'll be amazed at how it plays with your favorites!
The two colour version.
Each of our original Color Play Mohair Wraps combined four colorways of Kidsilk Haze Stripe into eight different sections. We noticed that we kept falling in love with certain sections, and wanted to spend more time with those two colorways. Intrigued, we decided to try a whole wrap using just two colors of Kidsilk Haze Stripe from the Herb Garden colorway held together throughout. A more subtle color shifting revealed itself as we worked -- still gloriously unpredictable -- and more watercolor-like in the blending, without a noticeable beginning or end. It's also simpler to knit, and because each skein stripes differently, each wraps final colorway is utterly unique. We're hooked!
Vivid and Nightfall Medium to darkest violet, turquoise, greens from grassy to olive, denim and navy.
Lush and California Sunrise Hot pinks and corals, tangerine, magenta, dark boysenberry, lavender and orchid purple
See all the shades of Kidsilk Haze Stripe. Why am I writing about these today? We recently received news from Rowan that Kidsilk Haze Stripe has been discontinued. If you were thinking that you'd like to make one of these beauties then you might want to act fast before the yarn is gone. We have kits in the store and on the website.
Shawl Pins
Now in stock from JUL Designs
Wild Grape Tendril Shawl Pin
Made Fair Trade in Indonesia Cast and hand-finished in White Brass Shawl Pin includes the ring and the small stick on the left. The Stick on the right is sold separately. Ring 2.5" tall x 1.25" wide The tendrils of grapes or peas are natures spirals.
Coil Shawl Pin
Made Fair Trade in Indonesia Cast and hand-polished in white brass Ring 1.25" inside diameter Stick 4.5" in length The Coil Shawl Pin is elegant and sleek, with a timeless design that is at once ancient and contemporary.
Sweet Pea Vine Shawl Pin
White bronze with rosewood stick 1.5 inches inside diameter, 2.25 inches outside This beautiful shawl pin is made here in the USA in a small casting house in New Mexico based on the meandering form of the Sweet Pea.
Lotus Garden Shawl Pin
White Brass Handmade Fair Trade in Indonesia This gorgeously delicate and light shawl pin evokes the zen of a lotus garden - its roots, its stems, and its flowers, leaves, and seed pods. Wear the calm of this lotus garden shawl pin and imagine the exquisite and virtually indescribable perfume of the lotus blossoms with their translucent pink petals swaying above subtly conical leaves that turn beads of water into glittering quicksilver.
ZickZack Scarf
There is a new sample in the store.
Pattern: ZickZack Scarf (free on Ravelry)
An impressive yet easy to knit scarf in the style of a great Italian designer. The chevrons are worked with single increases and decreases – no knots in your fingers trying to knit complicated double decreases and no double increases where the stitches get tight and hard to work with…
Yarn: Mille Colori Baby
We used 2 balls of colour 56 and 2 balls of 51. The other change to the pattern is that we cast on 72 stitches.
Bristol Ivy
There are still spots available in Bristol Ivy's Sallah Cowl class at the Toronto Knitters Frolic - Saturday, April 30.
The Sallah Cowl is a great one-skein sock-yarn project that introduces the knitter to new and interesting techniques. Work with different sized needles to create a reversible biased fabric with i-cord edging to create a one-of-a-kind cowl!
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New Tools
These ring stitch markers are brightly colored and easily seen when marking rounds, increases, decreases, and stitch patterns. Made of nylon coated steel, these markers attach to your Knitter's Keep or any magnet so that you can easily store and retrieve them. Stitch markers accommodate up to US 13 needle. Included are 10 each of 6 colors.
Knitting tools from Cocoknits should be arriving in the store next week.
Are you tired of digging through the sofa cushions to find your stitch markers? Tired of holding your cable needle behind your ear (or with your teeth)? And where is that tapestry needle when you need it? Problem solved. Keep knitting accessories close at hand …
Introducing Knitter’s Keep
A silicone slap bracelet fits any size wrist and sports a brushed steel-plated magnet. Nickel-plated accessories attach to the magnet to keep what you need where you need it most. Kit includes: One silicone slap bracelet in orange, green, blue or grey 10 large round stitch markers (accommodate US 15 / 10mm needles or smaller) 10 small round stitch markers (accommodate US 9 / 5.5mm needles or smaller) 10 opening stitch markers (accommodate US 11 / 8mm needles or smaller) 2 cable needles (size US 1 / 2.5mm) 2 curved-tip tapestry needles One handy 100% cotton pouch to keep everything together in your knitting bag.
Losing your stitch markers? These assorted nickel markers attach to your Knitter's Keep or any magnet so that you can easily store and retrieve them. Use them to mark rounds, increases, decreases, and stitch patterns. Included are 20 each of three sizes. 20 large round stitch markers (accommodate US 15 / 10 mm needles or smaller) 20 small round stitch markers (accommodate US 9 / 5.5 mm needles or smaller) 20 opening stitch markers (accommodate US 11 / 8 mm needles or smaller)
See all the tools on the website...
Zauberball
It’s in stock.
This is Crazy.
Zauberball has been kicked up a notch, as two strands of the main ply have been dyed individually and then twisted together for a crazy combination! The end result is a self-striping multi-colored pattern, with a bold variegated design.
• 75% Superwash Wool - 25% Nylon • 459 yards per 100 gram ball • 2-3 mm (approx. US 0-2) needles • • Approx. 7.5 sts per inch • Product contains: 1 bag of 5(100g) balls of yarn. •
And Zauberball 100
The long, exciting color repeats you love in Zauberball, now with no nylon! Knit heirloom quality shawls in 100% Merino wool.
• 100% Virgin Superwash Wool [Hand Dyed] • 437 yards per 100 gram ball • US 0-2 needles • 2-3 mm needles • • 7.5 sts per inch
ZickZack
It’s hard to put this scarf down. You want to see what colour is coming next.
An impressive yet easy to knit scarf in the style of a great Italian designer. The chevrons are worked with single increases and decreases – no knots in your fingers trying to knit complicated double decreases and no double increases where the stitches get tight and hard to work with…
The pattern is free on Ravelry...
The yarn is Mille Colori Baby from Lang - two colours, two balls each.
Fortuna
Spring yarns are arriving in the store.
Summery shades with a tone-on-tone dye effect. The same wonderful drape and fabulous fiber combination as self-striping Bella Lino.
Patterns for Fortuna can be purchased on Ravelry...
Lorna’s Laces
We have new colours of Shepherd Sock and Solemate. Both yarns are fingering weight - great for socks, shawls and garments.
Solemate is Lorna's amazing creation! A sock weight yarn that is made from 55% Superwash Merino, 15% Nylon and 30% Outlast, a fiber technology that continuously interacts with a body's microclimate to moderate temperature from being too hot or too cold. It was used by NASA. Ferrari uses it for their race car seats. Not only do you get this cutting edge technology, but it also comes in your favorite Lorna's hand-dyed color combinations! And don't forget that it is machine washable. Could you ask for anything else in a sock yarn?
55% superwash merino
15% nylon
30% Outlast
390m (425 yards) on a 100gram skein
Striking hand-dyed colorways, unbelievable softness, superb stitch definition and easy-to-care-for machine washability. Shepherd Sock is truly the ultimate sock yarn! This versatile superwash wool has just a touch of nylon for added durability and can be used for everything from socks and shawls to lacy tops and lightweight cardigans.
Our Shepherd Sock comes in 50 gram skeins. 2 skeins will make a pair of socks. 196m (215 yards) 80% superwash wool, 20% nylon
Toronto Knitters Frolic
Mark your calendars. Over 50 vendors selling yarn, needles, kits, patterns, accessories... Anything and everything to do with knitting.
Baby Cashmerino Tonals
We have a new yarn from Debbie Bliss.
This sport weight blend of wool, acrylic and cashmere is machine-washable and comes in delightful tonal colors. Make next-to-skin soft projects such as cowls, sweaters, accessories and even afghans.
String Quintets
This is the Rainbow Cowl (pattern purchased on Ravelry) knit in a String Quintet kit from Lorna’s Laces.
Worked in the round from the top edge down, this cowl features a simple eyelet “raindrops” lace pattern and an openwork “sunray” lace pattern. It is finished with a picot bind-off.
5 carefully selected shades to make you sing along with the band.
5 mini skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock. 80% superwash wool 20% nylon total of 489m (535 yards)
Meet Huck
He’s knit out of Liberty Wool from Classic Elite Yarns. The pattern was purchased on Ravelry.
Jacobus is the cutest monkey on Ravelry. Jacobus is knit round in one piece, without any seams. The pattern is very extensive, featuring 40 pictures of the various stages in knitting and row by row instructions.
The pattern is available both in english and in dutch, when you buy the pattern you have access to both the file in dutch and in english.
You can knit Jacobus in whatever yarn you want, both monkies on the second picture are from the same pattern.
For the smallest one I used 30 grams of fingering weight sockyarn for the main color and 10 grams for the face, hands and feet, knit with needles 1,5mm (000). It measures 20cm (8 “).
Using DK/worsted yarn, you need 50 grams MC and about 20 grams CC, use needles 3 or 4 (3mm or 3,5mm). Your Jacobus will measure 35cm/14”.
For a large monkey, use aran or bulky, about 75 grams MC and 25 grams CC, needles 4mm-5mm, 6-8, and Jacobus measures 50 cm, 20”.
A great scarf for spring
Pattern: Naushon (purchased on Ravelry)
This scarf or wrap with bands of lacy dropped stitches alternating with garter stitch shows off Santorini’s striping color changes.
Yarn: 3 balls of Santorini from Classic Elite
Santorini's colorways sing along the matte and shiny textures inherent in the yarn, adding vibrant color to warm-weather garments, wraps and scarves.
There are three new colours for spring.