Most of the Lotus Yarns Cashmere has been restocked – a couple of colours did sell out at I Knit – but most of the range is back in stock. Not only that but there are some brand new colours now in the shop – some of which will feature in the next issue of [...]

This week, I have been mostly knitting the Aurantium Blossom shawl by Alice Yu of Socktopus in her Twitter KAL. After much frogging and re-knitting, I finally finished the first Petitgrain section and have made a start on the Orange Blossom section. I’m using Lotus Yarns Cashmere in Ruby which you can find here. It’s [...]

Made with Lotus Yarns Cashmere Soft in Oatmeal (MC), Ruby, Hot Pink, Chocolate, Lime and Sugar Pink. A Tuck-Under-the-Armable kind of a bear and ever so soft. I based her on an old flat teddy that Skein Prince took everywhere with him until a fateful day when he was six and left him on a [...]

1. Designing – fairisle in Cashmere Soft 2. A shop update – been and gone. 3. Attempting spinningAlpaca fleece – fawn from Teddy plied with white from Bubble. Attempts to retain the softness ended up in thick and thin again and I found it much easier to spin which the fawn. The white had very [...]

It’s nearly ready – just waiting for PayPal to approve the new account – so I’m hoping that will be by the end of the week, or early next week. In the meantime, some photos of the yummy pre-dyed cashmere and bamboo now in stock: Sky 100% cashmere Periwinkle 100% cashmere Midnight 100% cashmere Peapod [...]

As the shop shelves are looking incredibly bare, time for a shop update tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. Four skeins of lambswool, angora, cashmere in different colourways. Four skeins of cashmere/silk in a new colourway called Oyster. Three skeins of cashmere/silk in a new colourway called Clam. Other than that have completed three custom orders this week [...]

Since the kids are away staying with grandparents in Holywood for ten days (boo hoo, yay, boo hoo, yah – mixed feelings as you can tell), I spent five whole hours last Sunday trying to get a big batch of cashmere/silk dyed up. All will be listed on etsy by the end of the week [...]

Here’s this week’s offerings to gradually appear on etsy before the end of the week: This one’s called August because today was the first real sign of summer we’ve had and these hot summery colours remind me of a bright summer’s day. This is in the soft cashmere/silk 4 ply. Next is Plum Tree, also [...]

I have some new additions to list in my etsy shop over the next couple of days and here’s a sneak preview: First up, we have a beautifully, soft cashmere/silk which I have named Pitter Patter for obvious reasons: Next up is another pastel colourway, this time in the long-promised cashmerino which is so soft [...]

This is what I’ve been up to this week. I got myself onto Flickr at last. Here’s my Flickr page. Sure there must be some way of creating a mini link but will get to that some time. So far have joined 4 groups – Yarn Porn, For the Love of Fiber, Hand Dyed and [...]