I thought it would be nice to start a new series here in the blog and let you know about my latest fiber discoveries. I want to share with you things I love and I think you’d love, too. This might be yarn, or notions, needles, bags or anything else a knitter can’t live without… So, let’s start with a small company I stumbled over on Ravelry – Sun Valley Fibers. The woman behind Sun Valley Fibers is Jeanette, who has been a dyer for a long time now, and supporting her is her husband George, who crafts the awesome Yarn Buddies (more about these later). They are a family-run business, located on a farm nestled in the hills of southwest Wisconsin. When I unpacked the…
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As promised, let’s take another look at the Kir Royale & Dark Champagne KAL running in my Ravelry group – this time focussing on the latter pattern. Dark Champagne may look intricate, but it’s actually a fairly easy and straight-forward pattern. Nothing that will keep your brain overly busy, but instead keeps you entertained while knitting, while each section leads to the next one. Jill’s Dark Champagne has been among the very first finished projects (find Jill on Ravelry as fruitbat). I so adore this piece! Jill created a light shawl that’s elegant in its understatement and simply stunning if you take a closer look at it. She used a hand-dyed yarn by DyeForYarn, one of my favorite german hand-dyers – a 100% Tussah…
