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One of the things that I love about Carla is her love of
color. She puts beautiful colors
together onto yarn, and then when knitters purchase her hand painted yarns,
they can effortlessly watch the beauty flow past their fingertips as they knit
or crochet. I love that, but am a bit
more of a control freak when it comes to how color works in my projects.
I love to plan exactly where each bit of color goes, and
place it specifically in my projects.
We’ve decided to marry my love of Fair Isle knitting with
the colors that we created in the studio.
One of our concerns about Welcome home is that it is an
artisanal yarn, and is a bit pricier than yarns you can easily find in a big
box store. It is priced at $26 for the
undyed skeins and $29 for the dyed skeins putting it right where it should be
compared to other yarns that have been created with a similar process. My concern for the pricing was that I’d want
to use MANY colors, and that a simple accessory project would require a
significant investment to get the colors I’d want.
Carla and I talked it over, chatted with some friends about our concerns and decided to do things a little bit different for this run of yarn.
We’re pairing a pattern with a kit that has lots of bits of
color. . .they’ll be priced competitively, and for now only available in person
at the shows we have this spring. Any
extra skeins left over after we’ve kitted things up the way we like will be
sold individually, and we think they’re going to go quickly.
The first kit we’ll have is of a pattern I released several
years ago, and have just re-named and will be re-released.
Marquette (formerly I Heart Fair Isle) is a more advanced Fair Isle pattern that keeps a
knitter quite chart dependent, as the motifs in the hat don’t have short
repeats that can easily be memorized.
This is not a project for social knitting, but the results are
incredible. When I wrote the pattern, I
used only a few colors of yarn, but for our kit, we’ll be using seven different
colors to give you a full rainbow to top off even the greyest of winter days. I've even added an extra chart to the kit to help you know where to change colors for the best effect.
Are you looking for a full box of crayons? This is the pattern for you. I love the way the natural brown plays
against the kettle dyed colors. For our
sample, I knit it in the rainbow order that would have made my
thirteen-year-old self extra happy, but there is enough yarn in the kit to put
the colors in whatever order makes your heart sing. I honestly don’t think you can go wrong with
color placement here. Carla’s attention
to color values makes this kit a home run.
Plan your colors, or surprise yourself by choosing a color randomly, and
you’ll have a hat that makes you look and feel like a color superstar.
There are a few other kits up our sleeve that I’ll share
with you later this spring that are a little bit simpler in their knitting and
less complex in their color choices, but this one? This one is my favorite. I hope you love it as much as we do.
As I mentioned, for now, these kits will be available at
Yarn Con, Ann Arbor Fiber Expo, and Carla will take some to the Ply Away
Retreat. We will also have some in
person (assuming we can keep them in stock) at the Black Sheep Knitting Guild
meeting in early April where we’ll be sharing more about this sheep to skein
project.
We didn’t intend for this to be a limited run, but we’re
testing the waters with Welcome Home this year.
Our suspicion is that you’re going to love it as much as we do, and
we’ll buy Mary’s entire clip of fleece next year. For now, mark your calendars, and make a plan
to come and see us.
If you haven’t signed up for my email newsletter yet, and
you’re thinking you’re going to want a kit, you may want to take a second and
do that now. Any kits we have left over
will be listed on etsy, and my newsletter will let you know exactly when that’s
going to happen. If you're a newsletter subscriber, you'll also see a coupon code for a new pattern this spring. You won't want to miss out.
I'm headed today to Chicago, I look forward to seeing some of you this weekend!
P.S. Head over to CraftSanity, I was told there'd be a video about Welcome Home that I'll bet you'd like to listen to!
I'm headed today to Chicago, I look forward to seeing some of you this weekend!
P.S. Head over to CraftSanity, I was told there'd be a video about Welcome Home that I'll bet you'd like to listen to!
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