Heepy Cabled Fingerless mitts

For some reason recently my designing  and knitting mojo has come back with a vengence, I think its having all the new yarns to play with. Obviously part of my job is to design things for the yarn, but at the moment its my favourite thing, especially seeing as I have conquered quite a few techniques recently which have freed my mind a bit.

Anyway, the latest design are these, they are called heepy mitts, and made in scrumptious chunky, they take two hanks as they are pretty substantial, but they look so cute... this afternoons job is to deisgn a hat to go with them, think that might be a little more tricky ;)

The pattern is available on ravelry, or through the shop here:

 

Slouchy fingerless mitt pattern.

Hello peeps!

Blimey, its been a tad busy here, and I completely forgot to blog, the workshop now thanks to my mum looks SUPER DUPER. I'll post some photos tomorrow :)

Anyway, I updated the shop today with some treats, and also a little pattern which is available for free download. Its for the faery wings yarn, its a slouchy glove pattern and it only takes one skein, to be honest I reckon you could get 2 pairs out of one skein, my mitts only weighed 21 gms so its perfect for Christmas presents. It can be worked flat or in the round, although its written in the round its easy to convert to flat.

Its also available for free on Ravelry here.

Fyberspates Open Weekend!!!

We are going crazy here getting ready for the weekend, as a consequence there won't be an update until next Friday where we will return to our normal schedule for the winter!

So....cakes are being cooked, silk painting things are being made for kids to have a go at, and the yarn shelves are being well stocked, its going to be loads of fun, if you feel like coming please just pop in even if its for 5 minutes or 5 hours! Tea and coffee is free and so is the cake!! And there is a cafe on Site open on SAT

The Unit is here there is a massive car park and I am tucked around the back but there are signs and I might get some balloons to mark the way.

Opening times are 10-4 SAT and Sunday.

 

Hope to see you there!!!

 

xxx

Something exciting on the Knitter :)

Actually I have lots of exciting things to tell you, but I am going to spread them out a bit, so todays is probably for me one of the greatest achievements I have ever made.

Notice I said on the knitter and not in the Knitter? .........I got a design on the Front cover of the knitter, front covers are uber important because they are what sells the magazine, so you know your design is ....well....you know ....alright and all that.

The irony of this garment is that in my head it was probably one of the simplist ideas ever made, and then in reality it turned out to be rather urm....unsimple to figure out armholes and all sorts of things because its knit side to side rather than bottom up or top down, the pattern is simple and makes uses of nice simple textured stitches, I have two versions, some of you have seen me at shows wearing the larger version, the one in the knitter is actually quite different, so we kind of got two designs out of one idea :) Its knitted in Scrumptious aran, although this garment in the picture is in hand dyed, unfortunately all the base for that one got burnt in the fire, BUT we have the gorgoeus new 10 colours in the commercial range to make up for that, and they are STUNNING.

So.....here it is on the front cover.....I can tell you I am so bloody proud of this, it certainly is up there on my list of achievments...

Also really great is the Knitter  magazine now have a new website....and The lovely adorable Jen has a blog on there too, which is great, cause she just cracks me up!!!

Happy knitting peeps. I'll tell you more on Monday xxxx

 

Fibre Flurry

ur......where do I start?

Ok, I have so many things to tell you good and bad.

I think I'll get the bad thing out the way, and then we can end on a lovely positive note.

My main supplier and bestest woolly freind in the world Mr Wool has had  a nightmare, one of his barns which stored all of his white yarn in was burnt down at the weekend, and they think it was arson, aimed at the farmer who's barn it was, not Mr Wool. That meant all if his white stock, about 5 tonnes I think was wiped out, I went today to have a look at it, and its was devastating, it also had a few hundred kilos of scrumptious in it too, which made me extremely sad and gutted. He is doing ok though, I came up for the week to look after him and make sure he doesn't get too sad, I think I am cheering him up, lol.....and some lovely peeps on rav got him a vege hamper, he was sooooo chuffed!!!

Anyway, its meant that I can't get any more of some of my standard yarns to dye for a while, I have some stocks thankfully, (never been so happy to be a hoarder ever) but things like the hand dyed scrumptious 4ply and lace will not be replenished on the shop for a while.

BUT there is a little silver lining, remember I told you about all the new scrumptious arriving? Well I was moaning like a B@%%&&D because it was late being delivered by peru, it was a day late last week, meaning that they had to deliver it monday instead of friday cause of the weekend obviously, imagine how much I would be crying if it had been friday as it would no longer exist :s, really I have to keep pinching myself to believe it, so this is some seriously blessed yarn.

So today we spent the morning opening the boxes and looking at the new yarns, and they are so so so so so gorgoeus, I have photographed them all and I will be putting them on my site today and tomorow, I think my favourite has to be the aran, even though I love the others, the aran gleams, and it screams knit me into gorgeous lovely jumpers.......we did laugh alot about one of the colours I choose; a colour called lime leaf.....I am not exactly sure who got it wrong, but the lime leaf is NOT lime its kind of oyster/camel colour, its totally gorgeous, BUT there is no green in the 4ply and lace range now, but its kinda funny, knowing us it'll be the best selling colour!

Talking of knitting........MORE TOTALLY WONDERFULLY EXCITING NEWS.....I got my first front cover design being published in the knitter, yup, FRONT COVER, its a gorgeous jacket in Scrumptious aran, I am so so chuffed with it. When I get the go ahead to put the pic on here, I will ok ;) its yummmmmmyyyyyyy.

Now....do you want to see some of the new yarns? This is the scrumptious 4ply, there is also natural too......

This one is the aran......my total fav of this is the slate, its completely metalic....

Lace

So ending on a happy note....really I am depserate to knit some of the aran  into something new :)

 

 

 

I have been baby knitting for someone special

I have been doing my first baby knitting ever, not really sure why I never did it before, this stuff knits so quick!!

Anyway, these are for Orla Esme, the first baby to be properly in my life and I am so excited, Anna and Pete are going to be the most amazing parents ever...

These are made in Sheila's sock :)

Pattern is here