I am so excited for the Sunshine Make-a-Long!
Summer has always been my favorite season. I have never shed the excitement of being a kid on Summer break. Being a natural dyer, it is the peak time to gather around the dye pot and indigo vat, and use homegrown flowers and plants to create color. I love seeing the garden bursting forth, flowers and leaves askew. I love the long days and ever-stretching natural light. Life feels spacious and open to possibility.
So let's think about how to plan our time making this Summer.
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Here are ideas of how to approach choosing your Summer projects:
Summer has always been my favorite season. I have never shed the excitement of being a kid on Summer break. Being a natural dyer, it is the peak time to gather around the dye pot and indigo vat, and use homegrown flowers and plants to create color. I love seeing the garden bursting forth, flowers and leaves askew. I love the long days and ever-stretching natural light. Life feels spacious and open to possibility.
So let's think about how to plan our time making this Summer.
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Here are ideas of how to approach choosing your Summer projects:
MANY LITTLE PROJECTS a la SUMMER BEACH READS
Choose a project equivalent to your favorite Summer beach read; that perfect combination of an addictive stitch pattern and easily memorized.
I am in love with the tiny scarf trend. It provides the perfect canvas to try a new stitch pattern or a combination of colors. The sense I get from people is that life l is a touch overwhelming at the moment. So I love the idea of giving my little scarves away as impromptu gifts to friends and family as a little something to add cheer and express my love and appreciation for them.
You could knit the same pattern in different colorways.
Or choose 3-4 different patterns, and knit them in three different yarns and colorways!
I have created a new bundle on Ravelry full of tiny scarf patterns. Give it a look.
You could easily pull together a beautiful collection of Floating or Doodle and Frond, in 3-4 colors, and mix and match them. Holding Floating with Frond, you can make many of the patterns listed in this collection.
For inspiration and guidance on creating a palette of color to play with, look to our Pinterest board.
Choose a project equivalent to your favorite Summer beach read; that perfect combination of an addictive stitch pattern and easily memorized.
I am in love with the tiny scarf trend. It provides the perfect canvas to try a new stitch pattern or a combination of colors. The sense I get from people is that life l is a touch overwhelming at the moment. So I love the idea of giving my little scarves away as impromptu gifts to friends and family as a little something to add cheer and express my love and appreciation for them.
You could knit the same pattern in different colorways.
Or choose 3-4 different patterns, and knit them in three different yarns and colorways!
I have created a new bundle on Ravelry full of tiny scarf patterns. Give it a look.
You could easily pull together a beautiful collection of Floating or Doodle and Frond, in 3-4 colors, and mix and match them. Holding Floating with Frond, you can make many of the patterns listed in this collection.
For inspiration and guidance on creating a palette of color to play with, look to our Pinterest board.
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Socks also make a great little project. They are easily transportable, and can be as simple as pie, or a place to try a new stitch pattern and technique. Doodle, our sock yarn, made from gently superwashed California Rambouillet wool, is perfect for a pair.
Ravelry bundle full of cuff down sock patterns and toe-up.
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TECHNIQUE BASED
Ravelry bundle full of cuff down sock patterns and toe-up.
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TECHNIQUE BASED
How about trying a new-to-you technique?
For example: colorwork, intarsia, lace, crochet, etc.
Or perhaps you would like to learn to spin or want to spin more.
We have fiber in the colorways listed above!
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For example: colorwork, intarsia, lace, crochet, etc.
Or perhaps you would like to learn to spin or want to spin more.
We have fiber in the colorways listed above!
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A DEEP DIVE: THE BIG PROJECT
Maybe Summer for you is thinking about diving deep into one, big project.
Of course, I am always thinking about Fall. I am absolutely not ready to be there yet. But I cannot stand feeling cold and would love a new sweater to wear once it gets chilly. So currently, I am researching sweater patterns to cast-on for.
I am looking to use horizon, pretzel, or graze yarn, here are patterns that would work well with these yarns.
Or, I may use Pretzel held with Frond, I just swatched this combination and it is divine.
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Please email us or come into the shop and we would be happy to help you choosing a pattern and yarn!
Join the Sunshine Make-a-Long now!
- Kristine
