Fun with Colour

Beth has a new project. I brought home a skein of Bamboo Bloom Handpaint and Mrs. Crosby Steamer Trunk for her to make the Hanasaku Cowl. The pattern is free in the store when you purchased Bamboo Bloom.

You can mix any worsted weight yarn with the Bamboo Bloom. I picked something colourful to keep Beth interested.

While I was playing in the new yarn yesterday I put together some colour combinations for Dotted Rays - Speckled Fade. Alex knit my shawl and has offered to knit me another one.

I also put together some for Bambara.

The sample uses a 3 colour speckle gradient with a brighter colour “pop”. C1 is the colour “pop”, C2 is the darkest of the gradient trio, C3 is the lightest colour and C4 is the middle shade of the gradient trio.

The skein lying across the bottom is the 'pop' colour.

I finished the back of Veronika this afternoon. Now it will go quicker - I get to cast off 49 stitches so my rows are down to 96 stitches. Beth has dinner in the oven so I'm heading back to my needles.

Where is he??

I sat with my nose pressed to the window all day waiting for Mr. UPS. He finally came late this afternoon with four boxes from Long Dog Yarn.

The colours are awesome and have been added to the website. I'll get more pictures tomorrow. By the time the boxes were unpacked and the website was updated it was time to head home.

I've decided. I'm going to knit Kimba (pattern purchased on Ravelry). I'm being good and haven't wound the skeins yet. The goal is to get Veronika finished. I made it to the 3/4 point on the back. I should have the back finished by tomorrow night and then on Sunday I can work down the front.

For the past week we've been cleaning up the store. Doing some inventory, moving yarns around and updating the website. We found some Offhand Design Bags that never made it to the website. These bags are sewn in San Fransisco and are made in limited quantities so you probably won't see someone carrying your bag.

There are lots of zippers and pockets - I have both styles and carry them when flying. You have room for your knitting, wallet, phone, headphones, iPad, snacks....

Kazul

Arya

Dinner is finished, the kitchen has been cleaned and laundry is in so it's time to knit. Veronika isn't going to knit herself.

Cupcake

The yarn from Fuse Fiber Studio arrived this morning. Oh my goodness. How am I going to choose??

I played with a few combinations and patterns this afternoon. I'm going to sleep on it and decide tomorrow.

We sold Wendy Cupcake over and over again for baby blankets. The yarn was discontinued and I bought up everything I could. We thought that we were out of it but this afternoon we found more bags. There are a limited number of kits available.

I guess winter is here. We've had some snow (I think about 4 snowflakes but that is more than enough) and it's really cold. I need to go digging in my closet to find some of my heavy sweaters.

Quicksilver

I talked about Melanie Berg's new patterns yesterday and it got me thinking about my Melanie Berg shawl. Where was my shawl?? Lynn found it this morning and I'm happy because I love wearing it.

Pattern: Quicksilver (purchased on Ravelry)
Yarn: tosh merino light - 3 colours - 1 skein each

Silky smooth and mercury quick, this fluid shawl swirls with color. 

Quicksilver is worked flat from tip to edge, with garter stitch stripes and a lace mesh that knits up in the blink of an eye. 

Wedges of the lace fan between the striped sections, lending the shawl a lovely slanted shape.

My shawl came out bigger than the pattern. I don't like left over yarn so Diana added more rows when she was knitting it.

We've been rearranging to make room for the Long Dog and Fuse shipments. Pashmina has a new home.

There are empty boxes when you walk in the store waiting for yarn.

Mr. UPS brought in the first box from Fuse. It only had 5 colours. More tomorrow.

These are the One of a Kind colours and they're on the website.

It's been a long day. Beth leaves for work a lot earlier than I do. This morning Roko decided he needed to bark at someone walking by the house at 6:30. Do I go back to sleep for an hour or get up? I got up and started the day. Now it's time to put my feet up and knit a few rows. It's Survivor evening.

Halfway

Fuse Fiber Studio has finished dying my yarn. Oh my goodness!! I think I could stop my post here. I don't know what can make this any better. Rebecca will be shipping the yarn tomorrow or Tuesday and I hope to see it by the end of the week. I think there could be another Bambara Wrap in my near future.

I kind of watched football today and did a lot of knitting. I made it to the halfway point on Veronika.

We took some quick pictures to show how the construction of the cardigan. The garter stripes are going horizontally on the front and go vertically on the back.

When the body is finished I will pick up across the bottom of the back to do the ribbing.

Shark Tank is taping and it's time to get back to it. The weather is getting cooler and Veronika will be perfect to wear to work.

Singles

Our order from Fuse Fiber Studio should be shipped early next week. Rebecca posted these pictures of our skeins on her Instagram account.

Storyteller

Lava Monster

I can't wait to see all the colours. The base is Single Ply so you can mix these with Long Dog Singles (scheduled to arrive on Thursday), Hedgehog Skinny Singles and Primrose Adelaide.

I made it into the 6th colour and even managed to get pictures before the sun went down.

Now it's time to do some laundry. I really wish that I could think about the clothes that I wanted washed and ironed and it would just happen.

I forgot about the ironing and did a few more rows on Find Your Fade. Too many rows. I should have been in bed an hour ago.

Fuse Fiber Studio

Rebecca from Fuse Fiber Studio posted this picture on her Instagram page. It is one of the colours that she is dying for us. We should see her fabulous yarn arriving in the store around the middle of November. We have 174 skeins (29 colours) coming - all singles.

I spent the day working on Veronika. The third ball is almost finished. I tried to get pictures but it doesn't work on the mannequin that I have at home. She is much smaller than I am. I will put it on a different mannequin at work tomorrow for pictures.

That's not my dog

Mom and dad had a dinner party last night so we looked after Lucy for a few hours. Beth took her for a walk and this happened. She loves water. I hope our neighbours didn't see it.

I'm fading into my third colour. The first colour is a Skinny Single from Hedgehog - one of our Potluck colours. The next two are from Long Dog Yarn. When I'm finished the third colour I might change the order of the rest of my colours. I'll see how this ball knits up.

October is going to be a busy month - there will be many shipments arriving. At the end of the month we will be receiving a box from Long Dog Yarn. This is the Outlander series of colours. Brandy will by dying this on Bounce Sock and Singles for us.

I ordered from a new dyer today, Fuse Fiber Studio, and that shipment will be arriving at the end of October. Rebecca has a very different colour palette from some of the other dyers. I'm excited to see them in person.

There will be 174 skeins of singles in the shipment. There was a decision - do I mix singles and a sock yarn with nylon? I decided to go with singles for this shipment in a wide range of colours. There will be 29 colours, 6 skeins of each. Why 29? I can't count and thought I had 30 :) The next shipment will be sock.

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Now I'm heading back to my knitting. No, I haven't picked my colours for the Stephen West MKAL. I have two combinations lying on the dining room table and can't decide. That is tomorrow's job - the first clue will be coming out.