I Came Home with Fairies

After this great week of vacation, I came home with little flower fairies. Cecily Baker's flower fairies inpsired this week' colorways. There are as fresh as the first days of spring here in New England.
I hope you enjoy the Fairy Collection.

Spring Break

SockPixie is on Spring Break this week with her little pixies. I will be back on the 26th with Flower Fairy colorways!

Yuzen Washi Collection

Do you ever feel that you are attracted over and over again to a style, a color, a language, a music, a country? Well, I have been drawn by Asian inspirations lately. This week, gorgeous Yuzen Washi papers mesmerized me. The patterns and the colors gave me incredible energy to create. I worked tirelessly for hours in my studio, singing. When I love my colors, I usually start singing. Isn't that odd, that colors would link to sounds?
I am sure you can tell how much I love the Yuzen Washi Collection!

Dyeing the yarn was also particularly exciting as I was dyeing 2 new yarns for the first time, a new Vegan Sock Yarn (Cotton/Nylon elastic), and a silky Milk/Cotton yarn! Oh, all the beautiful things I will knit with them...

Correction to Clochette and othe Clochette Matters

Oops! I made a mistake in the pattern. I just wanted to let you know that I made a correction to the pattern. The pdf now include the correction. (The error was on the number of stitches for the petals.)

I have had a lot of questions about the hat, one of them being how to adapt the hat for an adult. This is what I would do. I would just increase the number of stitches on each petal until the hat reaches a circumference to fit your head. You would then knit the hat slightly longer, the decreases will be very much identical.

Clochette Free Pattern

The clochette pattern is ready. Just click on the picture to download the pdf.



As always, I have tried my best to check the pattern for errors. If you have any problem with the pattern feel free to contact me.

Happy spring!

The Asia Collection

This week I decided to go back to Asia to find my inpsiration. I really loved the paintings done on an aged golden ground and so set out to capture that appearance in my yarn. I aged the yarns and roving by toning them. I chose tea for the toner.
The results are so beautiful. The tea tone created that aged golden glow, giving a unique depth to the colorways.

Clochette

A few days ago, when it was still so cold out here, I set out to knit spring. I am done!



My inspiration had been little lilly of the valley buds, which are one of my favorite flowers. They remind me of my grandmothers, the candies and the cookies they used to give me when I would visit to give them little bouquets of lilly of the valley, every year on May 1rst.

I called the little hat Clochette, as the little buds are like little delicate bells. The hat also reminds me of 1920's cloche hats. Can you imagine how cute this little Clochette will be on little people?



I knit the Clochette from the bottom up. The hat is knit in stockinette, except for the single purl stitches separating the petals. I placed my decreases on each side of these purls. I topped the hat with a little i-cord green stem, and two applique leaves in the same bright green.

A row of single crochet sets the curl of the petals.



I will make this pattern available as a free pdf by Sunday.The pattern will be available for sizes newborn to toddler.

Happy Spring!