New Yarns

I worked in my studio yesterday, and created some new colorways. I let myself create freely, just playing with colors, and techniques as well as materials.
My inpsirations ranged from  flowers to Madame Bovary to seashells, the matericals from Merino, to Tencel blends, to cahmere.

I have added these skeins to my Etsy store! I hope you will enjoy them.

Tulip Colorway Collection

I am dyeing the colorways for this weeks's Tulip Collection. Tulips are such varied flowers, sometines subtle, sometimes bold, sometimes tone on tone, sometimes multi-colored.
I wanted to keep the green separate and thought it would be fun to give each colorway its companion mini green skein so that you may knit the cuff, heel and toe of your socks in the contrast colorway, or add a little contrasting edging to a shawlette, or do a fun ribbed edge with the barber pole worsted... The fun possibilities are endless.

I hope you will enjoy my bouquet of tulips!

Tulip Colorways

After the Spring Green Rhapsody colorways, this coming weekend will be tulips, tulip colorways.
Tulips are my favorite spring flowers. Their colors are so fresh and vibrant, a real breath of fresh air after the long winter months.

I am off to create colorways...

Sring Green Rhapsody Colorways

The Spring Green Rhapsody colorways are ready and uploaded.
It was a lot of fun to play with a unique color theme, and to create different moods of green, some bright, some warm, some muted, some vibrant...

I hope you will enjoy my vision of spring. Have a great Sunday!

Spring Green Rhapsody

I have been feeling that spring is coming, the bulbs in my garden are even coming up!
The only color I want right now is green. For this Sunday's SockPixie store update I am creating a Spring Green Rhapsody!

While the yarns are drying, here is a Green Button Rhapsody!

Romi's Brandywine Shawl is Finished

I finished the Brandywine Shawl last night.



The shawl will be for my mother. I only knit 12 repeats of section B of the chart. (My mother is a very petite French lady!) That is another great thing about Romi's Brandywine Shawl. You can change its size so easily by adjusting the number of times you repeat section B of the chart. No complicated Math!



I am really happy with how the color touches look like shimmering reflections. (The yarn was SockPixie's Sunset over the Piazza). I have already selected a new colorway for another Brandywine shawl, this time the name of the recipient will remain a mystery, as she reads my blog (whereas my mother does not)! I will be using the Very Berry Strawberry colorway.

The Very Berry Colorways are Ready!

SockPixie's Very Berry colorways are ready. I have just uploaded them on the website.

These colorways just glow, they are so luscious you could eat them!



I hope you will enjoy your visit to my Very Berry garden.

Knitting Romi's Brandywine Shawl

I was so happy to be dyeing yarn last week, that I had to dye a skein just for me, and I had the perfect project in mind for it, Romi's new Brandywine shawl pattern.
Romi's shawl called for one skein of sock yarn. I dyed a skein of Sunset over the Piazza in a Merino blend. I wanted the shawl to look like the sun reflecting in the windows of Florentine buildings, giving coppery glows. The delicate Monet color touches seem to only add to the lace pattern.

I love the pattern. Romi did an amazing job. The pattern is fluid, and the design classic, understated yet striking. Romi wrote very clear instructions, and provided charts. I could not be happier with it. (She is also donating a very substantial amount of the proceeds of the sale of the pattern to help Haiti.)



I have just finished working on this week's SockPixie colorways, the Berry colorways. I have already dyed one extra skein for me to knit another Brandywine. (I will show you tomorrow when I update the SockPixie shop...)

Thinking of Colors and a New Pattern

Thinking of colorways for this coming weekend's SockPixie store update...

Berries, yummy berry colorways...



Thnking of a new pattern... The Retro Cardi this time not for dolls but for girls young and old...

The Sunsets of Tuscany Collection is Ready

The colorways for this week at SockPixie are ready. I just uploaded the collection to the SockPixie Website.

Here are all the Sunsets of Tuscany colorways together.



I am going to play a CD of Italian music, and I'll just sit and stare at the yarns for a while...

Hand-dyed Surprises for Tomorrow!

As you may have noticed, I have not dyed yarn in a long time. But this week, I finally did. It was so exciting to play with colors again.

I approached dyeing just seeking to please my hunger for color. I created colorways to match the fibers, and picked fibers to flatter the colorways and reflect the textural qualities of my inspirations. I will have only a couple skeins available in each colorway, and the colorways will vary by fiber. There will be soft haloed alpaca blends and cashmere blends, luxurious silk blends, and seacell blends.

I chose to paint sunsets in Tuscany inspired by one of my favorite novels, Room with a View.

For Sunset over the Arno, I picked an Alpaca blend, seeking to capture not only the colors but also the hazy texture of the Tuscan evening air after a warm summer day.



I hope you will join me tomorrow, Sunday, to enjoy the romantic sunsets of Tuscany.