Minikins

Just a reminder in case you missed it. 

The newest Field Guide from Modern Daily Knitting has arrived.

It’s time for a garden party! Welcome to the world of Dee Hardwicke, the artist whose fertile imagination overflows with nature and color and pattern

Shelley finished her Alpine Bloom and is now making one for her daughter. Another great colour combination. Shelley used SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock in Charcoal with Devilish Grin Dyed in the Wool. Thank you for sharing!!!

We have 4 brand new colours of Freia Minikins.

From Tina at Freia

Our single-ply merino is grown on small farms in the Rockies and milled in North Carolina. The yarn is hand-dyed at our studio in North Adams with acid dyes using processes that are gentle to the environment. The yarn is untreated so it must be washed by hand or it will felt. 

Though the yarn is a single-ply, our dyeing process strengthens and slightly felts the yarn, making it plump and stronger than you'd expect. The yarn has a loftiness that allows for it to be knit at multiple gauges - as is reflected in the gauge range we list above. Our unique and intense dyeing process creates smooth gradations in deeply saturated colors. We do offer dye lots but there will be variations even within dye lots due to the nature of hand dyeing. Each ball of yarn goes through at least four pairs of hands before it reaches you, being checked for consistencies in spinning, dyeing and gauge. The end result is a rustic type of yarn, with incredible saturation and a dreamy soft hand that you can comfortably wear against your skin.

I decided to knit the Alpine Bloom hat with different yarns yesterday. The background is Madelinetosh Woolcycle - Aura (I really like this yarn) and the flowers/leaves are knit with a Minikin - Wildflower. The yarn is fingering but it plumps up beautifully in the hat.

According to the pattern one Minikin should make all three sizes of the hat. I’m making the medium and when I’m done I’ll try to figure out if there is enough for a large.

Sock kits were also in the box from Freia. I will get those online tomorrow. I was busy this afternoon.

Practically Perfect Sock and Tosh Merino Light are swapping homes. I have the top row of Practically Perfect moved (above) and the top row of TML is done (below). Now that I’m looking at the pictures I see that I need to rearrange TML. Right now it is in alphabetical order but I need to group it by colour - it looks better.

We have two football games tonight - it’s time to knit.