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This week I have been totally taken over by the festive spirit and all I wanted to dye was fun speckles and colour pop colourways.  So I did!

This Friday we will be adding lots of colourful colourways dyed on our super lovely All Rounder yarn.  This yarn is a blend of merino and nylon (80/20) so it's great for socks, but it's such a soft and wearable yarn that it's also ideal for garments and shawls.

I'll be posting lots of pic's on Instagram in the lead up to Friday's update.  As always, our yarns go live 9am Friday (AEDT).  Make sure you sign up for our newsletter so you don't forget!

Hope to see you Friday xx

 

The Botanical Garden Shawl was first released in March 2012 and has become one of my most popular patterns.  So, as soon as we launched our new yarn Journey, I knew it was time to re-write the pattern!

I chose our lovely new yarn Journey for this pattern because, not only is it super soft and lovely to wear, it is perfect for lace!  It's a warm-yet-light weight yarn that is ideal for shawls, because you can fold it up and pop it in a bag, wear it under a coat or over a summer dress on a chilly night.  I knit my sample using Forest, but any of our Journey colours would look fabulous. 

We will be releasing the new version of the shawl this Friday.  Make sure you sign up for the newsletter to receive a special 20% subscriber discount.  Of course, if you buy the yarn the pattern is free!

Hope to see you Friday! xx

 

Our popular Silk Road will be back in the shop this Friday.  This base is a luxurious blend of Merino, Yak and Silk that's been spun up into a fingering weight yarn.  It feels silky and very soft to the touch and knits up to produce garments and shawls that have lot's of drape. I have dyed up seventeen colours this week, so lot's to choose from!  Keep an eye on Instagram for a few pre-update pics.

As always our update goes live Friday at 9am AEDT.  Hope to see you there!

 

One of the things I love to do is source yarns for the shop.  A while ago, I had the idea to create our own line of yarn.  This led me on a quest to find a mill and a yarn I loved.  And now, after quite a wait, it's here!

Journey is named after two things: firstly the journey of the yarn, from the Alpaca who roam the mountains in Peru, to the mill for processing, to us and then to you!  The other reason we named it Journey is more personal: it's our journey as a business that started back in 2010 on Etsy, where I began selling hand-dyed yarn, to the present time where we have a busy studio and, now, our own line of yarn! 

So, let's talk about the yarn.  As I mentioned, we work with a fabulous mill in Peru known for its commitment to Alpaca research, sustainability and the production of high-quality yarn.  Journey has been spun from 100% Superfine Peruvian Alpaca that is beautifully soft and has a lovely halo.  We decided on a fingering weight - the most popular of all our weights - and we chose to have the yarns wound into balls.  This was a big priority for me because I really hate hand-winding yarn.  The yarn knits up to produce very soft and light, yet warm, fabric that is ideal for all types of garments as well as hats and shawls. 

When selecting our colourways, we decided to have the yarns spun from dyed and natural roving, which is how the colours are produced.  So, there is no batch dyeing of skeins.  Producing colourways from a combination of dyed and natural roving produces a heathered effect which, just like hand-dyed yarns, has a beautiful depth of colour.  If you look closely at each of the ten colourways, you'll see hints of all the colours used to create them. It's rather magical.  Each colourway is colourfast: they do not bleed when washed, meaning they are perfect for colourwork projects.

To celebrate the release of Journey, we will be re-releasing our Duet top pattern which we have sampled using this yarn.  There will also be lots more patterns to follow!  Make sure you sign up for our newsletter to see some of our pattern suggestions!  Now, the big question: how much are the yarns?  Our price is $25 AUD (which is around 18 USD) per skein which is 400 yards / 366 metres in 100g.

We hope you love Journey as much as we do.  I am so proud of this yarn and I can't wait to see what you create with it!  Journey goes live this Friday at 9am AEST; we hope to see you there!

 

 

 

This Friday we will be adding our stunning Merino Silk Sport/5ply to the shop!  I've dyed up fifteen colourways in a mix of semi-solid and tonal.  I'll be posting lot's of pic's of this weeks colours over on Instagram in the lead up to the update, so check them out there.  As always, our yarns go live 9am AEDT, hope to see you there!

This Friday we will be stocking our shelves with two of our favorite fingering weight/4ply yarns, Silk Road and All Rounder.  We will be posting pics prior to the update over on Instagram, so have a look there if you want to know what colours will be added!  As always, our yarns go live Friday at 9am AEDT, hope to see you there!

This Friday we will be adding Sportlicious to the shop.  This lovely Sport/5ply yarn is fabulous for garments and shawls.  It's 100% SW Merino which is soft to the touch and knits up to create a cushy fabric.  Keep an eye on our Instagram feed for preview pics.  Yarns go live Friday 1st October at 9am AEST, hope to see you there!

This Friday we will be stocking our shelves with El Merino, our lovely 100% superwash merino fingering/4ply.  This yarn base is ideal for sweaters and shawls but can also be used for socks!  Its super soft and knits up with fabulous stitch definition.  Our yarns will be in the shop Friday 24th September, hope to see you there!

This week we will be stocking our shelves with more Silky Sock.  This yarn is a heavenly blend of merino and silk (50/50).  It's ideal for shawls as well as sweaters and will knit up to produce beautiful, soft fabric with lots of drape.  Our yarns go live Friday at 9am AEST, hope to see you there!

This week we will be adding kits to the shop for the upcoming Westknits MKAL!  Our kits have been specially curated for the MKAL and consist of five skeins of our All Rounder base.  There will be seven kits to choose from, keep an eye out on our Instagram page for kit previews leading up to Friday.  In the meantime, don't forget to sign up for the MKAL via Ravelry.

Our kits go live this Friday at 9am AEST, hope to see you there!

This Friday we will be adding El Merino to the shop!  We have dyed up lots of colours as well as put together a couple of kits for the upcoming Westknits MKAL!  We plan on adding kits each week for the MKAL, so if you miss out this week don't worry, there will be more available in the weeks to come.

As always, our yarns go live Friday at 9am AEST.  Hope to see you there!

This Friday we will be restocking our Silky Sock.  This base sold out very quickly last time so we've made sure to dye up lots more this time around.  Our yarns go live at 9am AEST, hope to see you there!