The weather outside is frightful, but I am warm inside playing with yarn. I hope you are all likewise somewhere warm and yarn filled.
Fresh from the drying rack: two lovely neutral grays, one light (Woodsmoke) and one dark (Slate). Both colors are actually based on logwood (purple) heavily "saddened" with a mix of tannin and iron which gives them a faint purple undertone in the right light - I can't help but think of the "violet" sheep of the Odyssey (the dyeing is admitedly a bit of a cheat).
Worsted-spun 3-Ply fingering weight from the island raised sheep of Straw's Farm in Newcastle, Maine. I love this yarn. Smooth, with just a little bit of bounce, it would be perfect for socks, or Sanquhar gloves, or a whole sweater (I may do all three). This yarn is pleasure to dye and a pleasure to knit with.
Worsted-spun 3-Ply fingering weight from the island raised sheep of Straw's Farm in Newcastle, Maine. I love this yarn. Smooth, with just a little bit of bounce, it would be perfect for socks, or Sanquhar gloves, or a whole sweater (I may do all three). This yarn is pleasure to dye and a pleasure to knit with.
Suggested Needle: US sizes 0-3
Length: approx 110 yards
Dye(s): Logwood, Tannin
I couldn't help but take photos of some of my favorite color combinations:
With Tiger Lily
With Lichen
With Cress
With Zucchini
The view from my desk. Reginald the kaffir lime tree was not meant to see such weather.
I still have a few more colors in the works, but I wanted to get these up when I had the time. Check out the new colors on the Fingering Weight page. (Still to come, a hunter green, dark gray, light gray, and maybe a few more blues?).
Thank you creative Instagramers for the naming help!
Worsted-spun 3-Ply fingering weight from the island raised sheep of Straw's Farm in Newcastle, Maine. I love this yarn. Smooth, with just a little bit of bounce, it would be perfect for socks, or Sanquhar gloves, or a whole sweater (I may do all three). This yarn is pleasure to dye and a pleasure to knit with.
Worsted-spun 3-Ply fingering weight from the island raised sheep of Straw's Farm in Newcastle, Maine. I love this yarn. Smooth, with just a little bit of bounce, it would be perfect for socks, or Sanquhar gloves, or a whole sweater (I may do all three). This yarn is pleasure to dye and a pleasure to knit with.
Worsted-spun 3-Ply fingering weight from the island raised sheep of Straw's Farm in Newcastle, Maine. I love this yarn. Smooth, with just a little bit of bounce, it would be perfect for socks, or Sanquhar gloves, or a whole sweater (I may do all three). This yarn is pleasure to dye and a pleasure to knit with.
Suggested Needle: US sizes 0-3
Length: approx 110 yards
Dye(s): Weld, Indigo
For example - check out the Fingering Weight page to see more.
In other news, we bought a house yesterday. A whole house. With a very cool barn. And a work space for Upton Yarns. It doesn't quite feel real yet.
I'm not really a hat knitter normally, but at the good natured prodding of my friend Sarah Hunt (@fibertrek) I finally caved and knit a Bousta Beanie. (For those who, like me, have been living under a rock all summer, Bousta Beanie is a free pattern designed by Gundrun Johnston to promote the 2017 Shetland Wool Week. Apparently everyone is knitting them, and I can see why). As she usually is when it comes to all matters knitting, Sarah is absolutely right and I loved knitting my Bousta Beanie so much that I further caved to Sarah's prodding and put together a kit.
I got so excited about making the kit that I haven't actually finished mine yet - appologies for the lack of blocking, end tucking, or pom pom) .
The kit contains two, 110 yard skeins of 3-Ply Romney fingering weight, and one, 110 skein each of 3-Ply Straw's Farm Island Sheep fingering weight dyed with natural indigo in a light blue gradient and a more solid dark indigo colorway.
There is, of course, a kit bag.
The product link will go live this evening (Wednesday, September 13) at 5:00 PM. I'm stuck traveling for my "day job" again next week, though thankfully only for a few days this time. All orders placed by noon on Friday, September 15 will go out that day. All order placed after that will have to wait until Friday September 21.
