Weekly Update

This week seems to have flown past – I guess that’s what a sunny bank holiday does.

This week I’ve been dyeing lots of 4ply merino and bamboo – gorgeously soft with a lovely sheen.

Semi solid charcoal

semi solid brown

semi solid silver

semi solid blue

semi solid turquoise

There’s sock yarn

Iceberg

Unicorns and Marshmallows

And a sparklynne version of Unicorns and Marshmallows too

Finally for this week there’s ore of the blue faced leicester wool roving

Summer Berry

Lavender Field

Parakeet

Semi solid plum

The shop update will take place at 1900 tomorrow.

Happy shopping

Joy

Weekly Update

Here’s hoping that the sun stays shining for the bank holiday weekend.

There’s plenty of yarn this week in a whole variety of colours and yarn bases.

First up is more of the chunky BFL roving which we introduced recently.

Flower Power

Winter Sun

Natural Beauty

There are ore semi solid sock colours – perfect if you’re thinking of joining the KAL for the Saltburn socks from Rachel Coopey’s new book.

semi solid slate, charcoal and silver

There’s more of the very popular Piscine Moon

Then some thicker yarns – DK Wensleydale. This is one of our 100% British yarns.

Then thinner yarns – laceweight.

SparkLynne Laceweights

Merino and tencel laceweights

Merino and silk laceweights

There are some new mini skein sets for the sale section

Finally we’ve closed off the May clubs, so the June clubs are now on sale.

The shop update will take place at 1900 this evening.

Happy shopping

Joy

Weekly Update

First up for tomorrow’s update is the latest of the lunar yarn series – Piscine Moon.

There are Sparklynne 4ply yarns

Natural Beauty

Winter Sun

Red Orchid

Dragonfly

Lavender Field

Anemone

There are laceweight yarn – sparkLynne laceweight, merino and tencel and BFF and silk. I love how each yarn base takes the dte differently.

semi solid slate

semi solid charcoal

semi solid charcoal

semi solid lime

Finally there are the mini skein club sets for April

semi solid colours

multi colours

The update will take place at 1900 tomorrow.

Happy shopping

Joy

Coop Knits Socks – The Book!

Hello! It’s Rachel here, I’m sneaking on to the blog to tell you about my brand new book of sock patterns. 

Of course I used one of my favourite socks yarns – The Knitting Goddess merino nylon sock yarn. It’s a smooth yarn with great stitch definition. 

I used it for this pair:

 

 

This pattern is Saltburn (a seaside I went to as a child), sailor stripes decorate cuff and toe, while a cable and texture pattern undulates across these nautical inspired socks.

I also used that yarn for this pair:

These are Budleigh, a cabled, mirrored pattern with rippling twisted stitches flowing along the leg and foot of these socks, inspired by the sandy ridges left by an outgoing tide.

You can see all the patterns here and pre-order the print book here (orders will be shipping out very soon), every copy of the print book will contain a code to enable you to download the eBook free of charge.

A kit including a book, a 100g skein of The Knitting Goddess merino nylon sock yarn in semi solid turquoise, a bag from NicKnots and a set of 10 Ringo stitch markers is also available here. 

We’re planning a Knit-a-long in my Ravelry group, come and join in!

 

 

 

Playing With Rainbows

There are lots of rainbow mini skein sets in tomorrow’s shop update.

Rainbow

Lime Rainbow

Charcoal Rainbow

Black Rainbow

Chocolate Rainbow

White Rainbow

Pale Rainbow

SparkLynne Rainbow

There are 8 experimental skeins of sock yarn – called experiment 1 to 8. There’s only one skein of each of these.

Then there are more sock yarns

Daisy

Dark Sugar Moon

Sugar Moon

Brown Owl

Red Orchid

Winter Sun

Brick Wall

Lavender Field

Pale Lavender Field

Sorbet

The shop update will take place at 1900 on Friday.

Happy shopping

Joy

Weekly Update

There’s lots of new yarn ready for the update tomorrow.

Mini skeins have been flying off the shelves, so we’ve added more.

Sugar Moon

Beech Leaves

Cat Walk

Midnight Sky

Unwrap and Enjoy

Copper Sun

Then there’s lace weight cashmere in multi colours

Violet Meadow

Red Orchid

Indian Ocean

Heathers

Natural Beauty

Next up some same difference sock yarns

Bark

Gothic Delight

Pink and Pretty

Blue Sky

Sweet Pea

Then a restock of club yarns from 2012 and 2011.

The Luggage

First Beach

Rennesme

Isle Esme

Then more sock yarn

Sari Corners

Indian Summer Corners

Flower Power Corners

Indian Ocean Corners

Daisy

Setting Sun

Chocolate Box

A restock of Sugar Moon which sold out very quickly last week

And finally – a trio of semi solid sock yarns.

Teal, Navy and Slate

The new colours will be in the shop from 1900 tomorrow.

Happy shopping

Joy

May Clubs and Postage Rates

We’re now into April (not quite sure how that happened), so it’s now possible to sign up for the May club yarns. If you are already a club member you’ll get an invoice on the 15th of April. If you haven’t yet joined us you can do so here.

From today postage prices have risen slightly to reflect an increase in post office charges. UK parcels will cost £3.25, parcels to Europe £4.25 and parcels to everywhere else £6.25 . We’ve thought long and hard about the fairest way to charge postage, and decided that we’d sooner give you a price and tell you that’s what your parcel will cost no matter how much (or how little) you buy.

Many Minis

There’s lots of yarn in this week’s update – and a fair bit of it is mini skeins.

I’ve restocked the semi solid mini skeins. and Bobbie is now winding lots of multicolours up into little skeins – so lots to tempt you. This is my favourite.

Rainbow mini skeins

There are also some sets made up of mini skeins which have been looking for homes for a little while – so there are 7 sets, each at the bargain price of £5

Also available for mini skein fans are the March mini skein sets

semi solid colours

multi colours

If you’d like to receive the April mini skein clubs you can sign up here – sign ups will close on the 1st of April.

Next up are lots of semi solid sock yarn colours

copper, caramel and chocolate

lilac, dog rose and biscuit

moss, green and blue

grape and plum

Finally, some multi coloured sock yarns

Death’s Brocolli

Gaspode

Rainbow Corners

Vivid First Beach – these are the colours in the First Beach yarn from When Vampires Knit Socks – but a whole lot brighter

Colourful First Beach – some where between the ultra bright vivid and the original colourway.

Sugar Moon – the next yarn in out lunar series. £2 from the sale of each skein of this yarn will go to our two charities of the year, Macmillan cancer support and the Alzheimer’s Society.

The shop update will take place at 1900 tomorrow. Postage prices will be changing on Tuesday to reflect new rates – so UK postage will cost £3.25, parcel to Europe will cost £4.25 and parcels to anywhere else will cost £6.25.

Subscribers – remember to check your newsletter for the chance to win some gorgeous yarn – and if you’re not a subscriber you can sign up here.

Happy shopping – and Happy Easter

Joy

Best Of British

This week we have something very special as part of the update – a 100% British yarn which has created for baa ram ewe.

You might remember that there was a competition to choose colours that represented Yorkshire. When the yarn arrived for me to dye it was so lovely that I knew I wanted some for the shop. Supplies are very limited. So limited that in the end I only had 3 kilos to play with. More has been ordered – but for now this is all we have.

I’ve chosen to dye up colourways that have been popular, and it felt right to include the first colourway I dyed and sold – that’s Lavender Field.

The yarn is 50% Wensleydale, 20% Bluefaced Leicester and 30% UK Alpaca. Each 100 gram skein is approximately 320 meters long and will cost £18.

Lavender Field

Red Orchid

Chocolate Box

Indian Summer

Stormy Sea

Peacock

For the sock yarn addicts amongst you there are three new colourways which nod to the fact that summer is coming. By painting dyeing corners of the skein and leaving areas undyed, the colourway is lighter and fresher. All we need now is some sun.

Sweep Pea Corners

Salsa Corners

Harebell Corners

There’s also more of the Octarine yarn from When Granny Weatherwax Knits Socks

And there’s another sock yarn based on one of the experiments which flew out of the shop on the last update.

Midnight Sky

The update will take place at 1900 tomorrow – and as always there will be early bird offers and treats available to newsletter subscribers, so if you haven’t done so already you can sign up here.

March yarn clubs are almost ready to go, so that means you can sign up for the April instalment. So if you want mini skeins, sock yarn or sparklynne yarn each month we have something you’ll love.

Happy shopping

Joy

Almost The Weekend

It would be fair to say that it’s been a bit of a week.

One of these weeks when every time the phone rings it feels like it’s something else that has gone wrong for family and friends.

So there’s been less time in the dye room than I’d planned.

However I have restocked 6 of the colours from When Granny Weatherwax Knits Socks

Greebo

Octarine

Ook

The Luggage

Draco Lunaris

Death’s Broccoli

There are 3 new colour block yarns in 50 gram balls

Rainbow

Red to Charcoal

Violet to Charcoal

There are also 2 more self striping yarns where the colours transition

Self Striping silver and red to charcoal

Self Striping silver and violet to charcoal

The new yarns will be in the shop at 1900 tomorrow.

Happy shopping

Joy