Fresh from my dye pots are these new yarn base of Falkland British Merino in DK and fingering weight :
Almond Sensation
Chartreuse
The Bold and Beautiful
Top three photos are Dk weight, 246 yd/100 gm hank. The following are fingering weight, 4 ply yarns with good yardage of 438 yd/100 gm hank.
Carrot Milkshake
Pink and Turquoise Dream Catcher
Rustica
Sea Of Love
The Dark Knight
This new yarn base is so soft and springy. The yarn is round with a high twist and produces a beautiful stitch definition. You will love to knit in this luxurious blend and the fabric is just so squishy, great for next to skin wear with a lovely slight sheen to it!
I have also restocked Bambaroo, 40% Bamboo 40% Wool 20% Nylon fingering weight, 4 ply yarns.
The weather here is real hot and my yarns get dried fast too! These are also custom orders done in purple red lilac colourway:
I would like to share with you this photo taken by my husband .....
These beautiful flowers in pink and white are blooming everywhere in town. Every year these flowers will bloom during the hottest month of the year which is in March, but this year it is a bit late. Well, better late than never! :D
I started natural dyeing with these beautiful bougainvillea on 28th March. So excited that it is finally done and the colours are so beautiful and soft.
The following scene might be a little disturbing for some people...
This is my yarn collage for the Silky Merino range which is a 50% Merino 50% Silk, 4 ply yarns. Yardage is 383 yd/350 m/100 gm. I really love the beautiful sheen of this yarn.
We had a meet up at Star Anise, Sooka Sentral last Saturday. In fact, this is the second meet up that I have brought along my hand dyed yarns. I got to meet with Riki from Thailand for the first time. Riki was so kind and generous, she brought us lots of goodies and we had a lot of fun. Nina and Tisya brought along there spindles to spin too and I just enjoyed selling my yarns. It is almost gone now, I am left with 6 hanks! Thank you people for your generous support.
So sorry that the photo is not clear but still with lovely memories :)
My apologies for not been blogging for a long long time. Hmm...almost 3 months ago! Life has been rather busy after setting up my etsy store. I have been knitting though and completed a few projects. Let me see....these three projects are knitted with my own hand painted yarns:
Travelling Woman using Pretty In Pink, a wool/nylon fingering weight yarn dyed using the layering method in the oven.
Raspberry Scarf, a 100% pure bamboo dk weight yarn.
I just love to knit these little gifts for babies and children :
Burnt Orange Owlie, also using my own hand dyed yarn.
A cute lilac head band modified smaller from Ropes and Ladders for little Celestine.
Wurm, using two kinds of cotton yarn to create this effect for my nephew who just loves blue!
And finally, Sun and Sand using Malabrigo Silky Merino Yarn in Sand. This is my own design and I am thinking of writing up this pattern for sale. It is a top down short sleeve cardigan that has a front button. What do you think of this idea? Do you like it?
Oh I almost forgot! I am suppose to tell you of my store wide sale. Starting today, I am having a 10% store wide sale on all items. Hurry! Don't miss it! Just 10 minutes after I have posted my sale, one item has been sold. It is my favourite long colour repeat yarn Bell Pepper which I actually can't bear to part with. Well, that is a good start! :)
You must be wondering why I have not blogged for so long. Well, to cut long story short, I was not feeling well for almost a month. I lost 80% hearing in my right ear somewhere in late January this year. You may think that loosing hearing on one side is not a big problem since I still have my left ear. It is not that simple because there was this very disturbing loud noise I hear on my right ear. So I actually can hardly hear. I couldn't eat or sleep and lost a lot of weight. Doctor couldn't explain the reason for the sudden loss of hearing. Life was totally upside down and I felt so helpless and lost. Didn't know how to live the rest of my life. I was hospitalised twice and I all I can do was to pray hard. One day, I heard my phone ringing so I automatically used my right ear to hear. I could hear my husband talking to me! My hearing is back, thank God!
I am back with my knitting again and have completed these projects:
My first project is Liesl.
This is Duet by Linda Wilgus from Knitty.com. Yarn and buttons are gifted by Nikki and Karin. Thank you ladies! :)
My own design that I call Sonata after the name of yarn which is Elann's Sonata Pink Pearly. At first I thought that lace weight yarn would be perfect for the flounces, but I found out that dk weight work as well too.Love how it turned out!:)
This is an earlier project that I designed myself too. Saw this beautiful cable stitch pattern from a stitch library and simply fell in love with it. The name is of course none other than Cables, Cables, Cables which explains it all! Yarn used is Rowan 4 ply soft in Bright Rose and buttons are made from key rings. This is a pretty and cute hat for Candy's niece called Lacy Girly. Modified to add bow instead of ribbon which I feel is more practical for a new born baby.
And, my latest design is Autumn Leaves knitted from my spindle spun and hand dyed yarn. This is a simple and easy knit that will bring out the beauty of hand dyed yarns. I love the wavy effect of the scarf. If you like it, these are the instructions:
Yarn weight : Fingering
Yardage : 245 - 248 metres
Gauge : 7 stitches and 8 rows = 1 inch in stockinette stitch
Needle : 3.5 mm
Cast on 28 stitches.
Knit 3 rows.
Row 1 : Sl 1, knit 1,* k2tog, yo*; repeat * * 3 more times, knit 8, repeat * * 4 times, knit 2.
Row 2 : Sl 1, knit 1, purl to the last two stitches, knit 2.
Rows 3 to 12, repeat rows 1 and 2.
Row 13 : Knit 10, *yo, skp*, repeat * * 3 more times, knit 10.
Row 14 : Sl 1, knit 1, purl to the last two stitches, knit 2.
Rows 15 to 24, repeat rows 13 and 14.
Repeat Rows 1 to 24 till end of scarf but when you come to the last row of scarf, do not repeat last row of pattern.
Knit 3 rows and bind off.
Yes, these are the names of my recent natural hand dyed and hand spun. The first photo is Peach Punch which is dyed with balsam flowers. It is 2 ply merino yarn :
And this is Butterscotch :
It is 200 gm of superwash merino yarn(600 m) and it just take the colour of yellow onions beautifully. I love this combination of bright and intense colour.
