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SUMMER HOLIDAYS, PARIS OLYMPICS 24 & SHOP CLOSED

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SUMMER HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT:

Shop closed between Friday 2nd August – 9th Friday August 2024, re-open on Saturday 10th August.

I will be taking a week off for a summer break and am really excited to be going to Paris for the Olympics.

Knits in Progress

I have a few current works in progress, but I don’t think I will have the luggage space to take them with me. Currently on my needles

Polina Sweater by Teti Lutsak

I am in love with this sweater. The colourwork is rather addictive. I am using a mixture of sport weight yarns and fingering weight yarns held double in my stash, the main colour is a wool by Wooldreamers, a limited edition Spanish merino.

It was hard to choose the yarns for this, as a lot of colours I originally had in mind, disappeared against the main colour. I have also become very sensitive to a lot of wools and I needed something which was soft but not too slippery.

Jelly Roll Socks by Orange County Knits

This is my favourite trainer sock pattern for the summer. It is a great stash buster also. I like the corrugated rib areas as it grips the foot.

Using socks yeah 4ply as the main colour, and bits of mini and leftovers for the contrast colours.

Cumulus Blouse by Petiteknits

This is my 3rd Cumulus blouse so far, in this version I used a hand dyed silk mohair by Dystopic Fibres and paired it with a fingering weight silk yarn by BC garn called Jaipur Silk, knitted on 4.5mm needles. I wanted to finish this project, but I got a bit distracted!

Marled Magic Sweater by Westknits

Another stash buster project, which I have in the background. It is getting a bit big now, but I love it as it is such an interesting knit and never boring. I have been using up lots of bits in pieces of single skeins of hand dyed yarns and balls of wool I have collected over the years, mostly fingering weight held with mohair.

On Summer Vacation 9th – 16th July.

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Thank you for participating in the Indieburgh Craft Crawl on Saturday, it was so lovely to see new and old faces!

The shop will be closed between 9th – 16th July inclusive for a short holiday. I will re-open on Wednesday 17th July, at 10.30 -5.00pm as usual, sorry for the inconvenience.

I have received a delivery of the latest Chiaogoo Blue Twist Flexi Shorties sets, but I can only send out after my return from holidays. They are £85.00 each, I also have spare cables and 8cm tips. I have a few sets left.