It’s time for the Little Yellow Cat Winter Sock Club. The theme for the Winter Sock Club is Vintage Garden. Everything will have a rich, tonal, vintage feel for winter.You’ll receive three skeins in total, each will be 100g of 4ply/fingering weight. Skeins are about 360-400 meters long but this will vary…
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2018 Yarn and Craft Market
There are exactly four weeks until the Victorian Handknitters Guild 2018 Yarn and Craft Market! Last year was fantastic but frantic. Geoff was sick, so I didn’t have an offsider to help me schlep all my stuff to Coburg and back, and to take over when I needed a coffee and a…
Christmas Socks
Now Christmas is over I can share with you some of the gift knitting I did last year – specifically the Christmas Socks I made for family members’ Christmas presents. One of my knitting goals for 2017 was to knit 12 pair of socks. I’m still rounding them up to photograph and…
Pink Peppercorn
A very quick post about a new yarn base and colour that I’ve just added to the shop. Pink Peppercorn is a soft pink with splashes of lichen, mustard and raspberry. It also has a handful of blue and orange flecks. I don’t often keep a skein of yarn from my dyeing…
The Finished Ashburn Shawl
In what may be the longest and laziest knit-along ever, I’ve finished my Ashburn shawl! I actually completed it in June or July last year, after casting on in April 2017. It just took me until January 2018 to block and photograph. Ashburn is a pattern by Melanie Berg. I would definitely…
The Year of Yarn
Three days into the new year and I’m already planning my dyeing schedule for next Christmas. I lost momentum last year after three different versions of the ‘flu, so I’m excited to be back into dyeing and knitting. I missed having the energy to dye new yarn or to make anything more…