You know how Wool Warehouse sends their yarn in organza bags? Am I the only one who is building up a collection of the huge size? I only seem to be able to order yarn in large quantities. This was the latest arrival.
Just a few things to be going on with.
Do you want to see what I got? First of all, here are the three new shades of Stylecraft Special DK which bring the total number up to 100.
From left to right they are Gingerbread, A Hint of Silver and Warm Grey. Not the most exciting of colours but I like to keep my stock up to date. If my Errand Boy ever gets round to doing my Hobbycraft shopping for me, I might have a use for the Gingerbread shade. One of the things on the list is more polystyrene wreaths in smaller sizes as I want to design a new Christmas wreath.
The next collection of yarn is also new, the complete range of King Cole Bramble DK which, luckily, only comes in six shades.
This is a colour changing yarn with what looks like a long colour run and I was very taken with the shades (and the names, obviously). My favourites are probably the three darker colours: Mixed Berries, Raspberry and Loganberry.
I think there are some interesting possibilities by pairing dark and light shades too though. Look at these two together,
Loganberry and Haze.
I don't know what I'm going to do with these yet; I shall have to have a little play. What else did I get? Four balls of Stylecraft Special in Cream - not very exciting again but these are for the background to the crochet Butterfly Baby Blanket I'm working on.
The butterflies are going to be worked in a range of pretty colours - hence the colour pegs in the picture.
The last collection of yarn in my order was some Scheepjes Stone Washed in five colours to try out an idea for a patchwork blanket that I've had.
The idea is to knit large blocks, made up of different textured squares. I chose the colours from the squares I knitted with the Stone Washed colour pack and which have yet to be turned into anything. I wrote about this a while ago in a blog post called Cataloguing Colours.
Anyway, I'm designing one patch a day (there will be seven to a block) and this is what I've got so far.
I particularly like the stitch I've used for the cream patch. It's called Rosette Stitch and I found it in one of the Barbara Walker Treasuries. As she says, it looks rather like crochet and the other side is pretty too.
So, that's the lot. From that order anyway. No doubt I shall need some more before long.
