A New Newleaf

Deidre dropped off our Newleaf yesterday. She did an amazing job on the sweater! I love the colours. The background is Le Petit Lambswool in Grey Beige and the colour work is Dyed in the Wool - Every Rose. The new colours of Le Petit Lambswool should be arriving on Monday and we will put together new combinations.

Here is a close up of the colours. When you look at a skein of Dyed in the Wool it looks like a mess of colours but you get stripes when you knit it.

This is Every Rose in a skein.

There are many, many finished Newleaf sweaters on Ravelry knit with Dyed in the Wool. If you want to see how a colour knits up in the sweater, enter the colour name in the search bar on my Ravelry link.

Zauberball Crazy is a great substitute for the colourwork if you don’t want to use Dyed in the Wool.

I was in the store early this morning and made up kits for Ric Rac. These are available online.

Ric Rac is a boomerang-shaped shawl that was designed for Local Yarn Shop Day 2022. It has swirls that look like ric rac, which was popular on kids clothing in the ‘70s and ‘80s. 

Casapinka’s LYS Day pattern is available for free with purchase of a combo.  The pattern will be released on LYS DAY April 30, 2022. With the purchase of the yarn you will receive a Ravelry download code.

These are just suggestions. I tried to make combinations close to the sample and a few more summery combinations. Pick any two skeins of fingering and make your own combination. Next Saturday (April 30th), purchase 2 skeins of hand dyed fingering weight in the store or online and we will give you the coupon code for the shawl pattern.

The garden is starting to bloom. 

Dad and Lucy have gone home, the hockey game is on and it’s time to knit.