Ice Queen Cowl

Today I received an email from a wonderful lady who has knitted the Ice Queen Cowl from Knitty on-line magazine.

It's made from hand-dyed Happy-go-knitty merino/silk lace weight.

I think it looks amazing!!

Tangle-free earphones

More stripes!

Some of the skeins from my latest dye lot
of self-striping BFL sock yarn.

I'm very pleased!

This weekend I'm doing the following markets:

Friday

Matakana Christmas Market 

5pm–9pm

Saturday

Crafternoon Tea 

10am–2pm

See you there?

Silk in colour

Here it is – the beautiful 100% mulberry silk.

Now dyed in luscious colours.

100g/390m, $40

Deep red, Vintage pink, Rose, Denim, Sky blue, Aqua
and a slightly variegated green.

Watermelon socks

Kiwiyarns has knitted some watermelon socks
from Happy-go-knitty self-striping BFL sock yarn.

I have to say they look delicious!

Photo by Kiwiyarns

Oh...silk!

I have waited and waited and now it has finally arrived: 100% mulberry silk!

It's luscious and soft and the sheen is just amazing. It has that typical smell of pure silk.

I will dye it on Friday. Aqua? Denim blue? Beetroot? Dark red?

Exciting!

Love hearts

For that special someone.

Or for yourself.

Bead-knitted brooch, 4.5cm x 3.75cm, 

made of black or hand-dyed merino.

NZ$15

Market weekend

I’m very excited about my busy weekend ahead – 

you can find me at markets both Saturday and Sunday!

Saturday 3 November

Michael Park Steiner School

9.30–3.30

55 Amy Street, Ellerslie

Sunday 4 November

Devonport Craft market

10–3

Devonport Community House

32 Clarence Street, Devonport

I will have lots of hand-dyed yarn and knitted goodies – 

bead-knitted merino cuffs, cotton beanies for kids 

and various knit kits if you would like to make your own crafts.

Below are some samples of what I will bring.

Kid’s beanies made of hand-dyed cotton

Bead-knitted merino cuffs

Knit kit for stripy cuffs

Knit kit for tangle-free earphones

 100% cotton

self-striping BFL sock yarn

merino/silk/nylon sock yarn

silk/merino lace weight

Silk?

I am so tempted to add some 100% silk yarn to my range.

The sheen on a pure silk yarn is just amazing!

I’m looking at a fine mulberry silk lace yarn with 900m/100gm. 

That’s enough for a beautiful shawl but it’s fine knitting.

Too fine? Would you do it?

There is another option of a mulberry silk yarn with 390m/100gm.

That’s fingering so like a sock yarn. But 390m would hardly

 make a shawl so you would need 2 skeins for most projects.

Silk is amazingly beautiful but not cheap...

What do you reckon?
Which one should I start with? Or just go with both?

Any comments would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Photo © MiaInspiration

This is an example of what you can create with 

2 skeins of the 390m/100g mulberry silk.

A Whippoorwill shawl by MiaInspiration

(Three skeins/colours have been used in this shawl, 

but two skeins is enough to make the shawl.)

Finished socks

Jo has finished her stripy socks now.

They are knitted with Happy-go-knitty self-striping 

BFL sock yarn and I think they look fab!

I know she made them as a gift 

so someone’s is very lucky.

Jo is an avid sock knitter and before she had finished the socks above 

she had already laid her hands on the next skein.

Looking forward to more photos, Jo!

Cool socks!

Some yarny friends who have bought Happy-go-knitty 

sock yarn, have blogged about their very cool socks.

First we have Jody's amazing socks! They are knitted with 

Happy-go-knitty BFL sock yarn and I'm blown away by her skills!

 

Jo has sent me a photo of her socks that she is knitting

with Happy-go-knitty self-striping BFL sock yarn.

You can read some nice comments about the yarn here

Would you like to try Happy-go-knitty yarn?

I have listed new yarn in my felt shop tonight.

Just click the photos to have a closer look
and to go to more samples.

Row 1 & 2 – self-striping merino/silk/nylon sock yarn

Row 3 & 4 – self-striping BFL sock yarn

Row 5 & 6 – merino/silk lace weight

happygoknitty

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Merino/silk sock

I seriously love this new sock yarn! It's made from 

65% superwash merino

25% silk 

10% nylon

Soft, bouncy and with a nice sheen.

Now I have also dyed it self-striping.

Soon available in my felt shop.

Stay tuned.

Baa has arrived!

Haha, yes ‘Baa’ arrived at my house today!

He is a needle gauge measurer from Bamboolery 

and a present from my lovely sis MiA.

He’s made of bamboo and very clever because on one side 

you’ve got metric sizes and on the other one US. Handy!

The two little charms are of course stitchmarkers!

Thanks sis, what a fab present!

Do you want your own one? Well, there are no more ‘Baa’ 

(he is very special!) but you can find other ones here

And the winner is...

I apologise for the delay in announcing the winner of the draw.

Google simply didn’t let me log in to my account yesterday!

But, from my random draw today I have found out that

Jane Campbell

is the winner of two skeins of cotton yarn.

Congratulations Jane!

You mentioned that you like the pink colours,

can I tempt you with any of the following?

Top row:  Lollipop, Raspberry swirl, Rose

Bottom row: Cotton candy, Rosehip 1, Rosehip 2, Bubblegum, Watermelon

These beanies and flower hair clips are examples of what

I knit from this lovely 100% cotton.

Jane, please send me an email to happygoknitty AT hotmail DOT com

and we will sort the details.

Give-away!

Oh... 

I found out that you're actually not allowed to run competitions 

on facebook, so I have closed the give-away...

But to make up for that I will run a new competition here! Yay!

Same prize again – two skeins of the lovely 

hand-dyed cotton in the colour of your choice.

Please leave me a comment below and let me know what 

colour(s) you like and why you would like to win the yarn.
Follow the page and you will go twice in the draw.

Leave me a comment before Sunday 14 October, 9PM (NZ time) 

and you could be the lucky winner!

If you would like to know more about running competitions on facebook, 

click the link below for a good website that explains it all.

Why your facebook competition is probably illegal.

Fancy some free yarn?

Head over to facebook and check-out my give-away!

Good luck!

Oooh... nice!

I have dyed some more luscious lace weight

– 50% silk and 50% merino.

Super soft and with a wonderful shine, 

it’s just a dream to knit!

NZ$36/100g/620m

Very pleased

Yes, I'm very pleased with the new
self-striping BFL sock yarn I have dyed!

So far I have always dyed the sock yarn with 

even stripes, like in the image below.

This time most of them are dyed with a variation

of wide and narrow stripes. Very nice!

Here are some samples:

These skeins are not listed in my felt shop yet, 

but if you would like to buy a skein feel free to send 

me an email to the address in the header.

They are NZ$38/skein.