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This week we continue our love affair with our newest base Mohair Silk Lace which will be offered alongside our wonderful Voyage DK.  Looking for pattern ideas?  Check out our Pinterest boards for Mohair Silk Lace and Voyage DK.

Our update will go live on Friday 6th July at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

Kristen xx

If you follow us on social media, you will already know about our newest yarn Mohair Silk Lace.  We are totally in love with it.

Mohair Silk Lace is a very versatile yarn: it can be used on its own to create light-as-a-feather garments and shawls, or it can be combined with another yarn to create a fabric with a wonderful fluffy texture and feel.  This week, we are combining Mohair Silk Lace with our popular Top Draw Sock.

To combine both yarns you can use two strands in the same colourway, or pair two complementary colours together to get a fabric with a lovely depth of colour.  The picture above shows Top Draw Sock in the Eucalyptus colourway paired with Mohair Silk Lace in the Highlands. 

Looking for pattern ideas?  Check out our Mohair Silk Lace Pinterest board.

 

Get ready to spice up your winter hats with our faux fur Pom-Poms!  These attach to your hat using a snap closure, meaning you can swap pom-poms depending on your mood/outfit.  We have a ton of fun colours, each pom-pom costs $5.  The hat pictured is the Winter Dusk Hat by Jessica Gore which was knit using our Winter Worsted in the Wood Smoke colourway.

Our update will go live on Friday 29th June at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

Kristen xx

 

 

This week we are so thrilled to be releasing a brand new yarn base, Merino Silk Sock.  This stunning yarn is a blend of 75% Superwash Merino and 25% Mulberry Silk, each skein has 437 yards / 400 meters in 100g.  It truly is a luxurious yarn to knit and to wear.

Merino Silk Sock yarn would be a perfect substitute for our Daintree yarn, so you could use this yarn to knit the recent Libby Jonson pattern Itsumo, as well as the Timely Cardigan. Other pattern suggestions include:

• Tegna by Caitlin Hunter
• Alice by Hiroko Fukatsu
• Slice of Light by Susanne Sommer
• Cathedral Wrap by Joji Locatelli
• Wool and Honey by Andrea Mowry

Looking for more project ideas?  Take a look at our Merino Silk Sock Pinterest Board.

Our Merino Silk Sock update will go live on Friday 22nd June at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

Kristen xx

This week I have been dyeing up the wonderful Uptown Sock.  This single ply yarn is one of my all time favorite yarns to dye, it takes colour brilliantly and dyes like a dream.  We have a huge array of colours including two new yellow colourways called Sundress and Golden. 

Our update will go live on Friday 8th June at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

The Skein Team xxoo

We've had a busy week here at Skein HQ.  As a new season is now upon us, we have updated our colourways for Winter/Summer 2018.  You can check them all out here!

Also, we have the very popular Bliss DK back in stock for custom-dyed orders.  This yarn is now available to buy in any of our new and past colourways.  Custom orders are currently taking around two weeks to process.

Lastly, we have been getting ready for this weeks update.  We will have a shop full of Top Draw Sock in lots of fun colours.  We have also put together a few more combinations for Helen Stewart's Shawl Society. 

Our update will go live on Friday 1st June at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

The Skein Team xxoo

This week, we are super excited to be offering yarn for Season Three of the Curious Handmade's Shawl Society.  We were one of a handful of dyers asked by Helen Stewart to produce some alternative colour combinations for the first shawl in this series, which has the theme of The Secret Garden.

 

 

I was so taken with this theme that I put together eleven colour combinations:

 

 

Each colourway is sold separately, allowing you to select your own colour combinations.  You will need three skeins, two for the main colour, and one contrast.  The first shawl design is set for release on Thursday 31st May. 

The yarns for this update are a mix of MCN Sock and Uptown Sock. Please note you can use both of these yarns together for the shawl.

Click here for more information about The Shawl Society or to join up. 

Our Secret Garden update will go live on Friday 25th May at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!.  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.

Have a wonderful week!

The Skein Team xxoo

 

 

This Friday we are releasing a new shawl design called Little Arrow.  Above is a sneak peak of the design using our Uptown Sock.  The sample was knit using two new colourways: Gelato (pale with speckles) and Roller Rink (purple with speckles).  You can read more about the design on Friday (check our Ravelry shop!). 3 skeins are needed for this shawl: two for CC1 (seen as the darker colour), and one skein of the ligher colour, OR, knit the whole shawl in one colour.  Our update this week is all about the Little Arrow shawl; we will have lots of colourways we think will suit this new design.

As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 18th May at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

All subscribers to our newsletters will receive a code to get 20% off the Little Arrow shawl.

Have a great week!

xxoo

This Friday we will be updating the shop with the very popular Daintree base.  This will be available as Dyed-To-Order and In-Stock.  We will also have Fading Point kits for Joji Locatelli's beautiful new wrap and Top Draw Sock.

As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 11th May at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

Hope to see you then xx

This week's update is all about MCN Sock, one of our most versatile yarn bases.  We have dyed up a nice selection of speckles and tonals and, as always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 20th April at 9am AEDT.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

Also, from next week we will be taking a break from our regular update schedule as we begin dyeing up yarns for the Westknit YAL.  Our updates will commence as usual on Friday 11th May.

Have a wonderful week!

 

We have a very special update planned this week, featuring a new design that is set for release on Thursday by Libby Jonson. Here's a sneak peak.

 

 

Libby used our Daintree yarn in the colourway Caramel for her gorgeous new design.  We will have Caramel in stock, as well as other colourways we think will go perfectly with this new design.  We also have a small amount of Daintree reserved for Custom Dyed Orders for those of you who wish to order other colours.  You might also want to sign up for Libby's mini mag to receive pattern alerts, news and knitting related stories as well as new-release pattern discounts.

As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 13th April at 9am AEDT.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

Have a wonderful week!

 

 

 

This week's update is all about Top Draw Sock!  It's been a while since we had this base in the shop and it certainly has been missed.  We've dyed up lots of fun colours, including the two pictured above (Jimmy Street and Evening Fizz).  As always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 6th April at 9am AEST.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

 

We have planned a fun, sparkly Easter update this week.  We have a brand-new replacement for our Shimmer yarn; it has the exact specs as our old base but has a more sparkly glow.  This yarn gleams with silver stellina, making it perfect for a fun, sparkly shawl, cardigan, pullover or socks!

We have a ton of fun colours and, as always, we will be posting lots of spoilers for this week's update over on Instagram.  All yarns will appear on the shop Friday 30th March at 9am AEDT.  To find out what time this will be in your neck of the woods, click here!

Have a wonderful week!