New Colourways

I've been brimming with new ideas for stripy combinations recently, a few have been introduced to the shop over the last few weeks.  This weekend Sweet as Candy and Flower Strewn made an appearance, these have now sold but don't worry more to come soon.  Pictured down below, Floating By is another new one, which will be in the shop on Saturday. 

FLOWER STREWN
7 stripes in deep magenta, pale magenta, yellow, aqua, deep violet, green and red

SWEET AS CANDY
5 stripes in pretty pastel shades of yellow, aqua, mint, white and pale pink. 

FLOATING BY
5 stripes in bright grass green, aqua, acid lime and turquoise
(available on Saturday, 1 June)

 I frequently get asked if I'm still taking custom requests, and yes I am.  I no longer put custom slots up in the shop, but tend to do requests as and when I'm asked and then invoice via PayPal.  Just convo me via Etsy and I'll answer as soon as I can.

Karen

Drawings from the Past

It's been quite some time since I did any really serious artwork.  I used to do pet portraits, and whilst this was incredibly time consuming it was something I loved to do.  When my Etsy yarn shop took off in 2007 my art was temporarily put on hold.  I recently stumbled across some of my pencil drawings I have scanned in a folder on my computer.  All of these have been done in graphite pencil and most of them were commissioned pet portraits.

These few below were done with coloured pencil.  The Christmas designs were for an animal rescue centre I was involved with at the time.

Looking at these old drawings and my obsession with Pinterest has rekindled my passion for art. Because of all my other crafty endeavours, and the success of Twisted Limone, I still don't have a great deal of spare time, but I'm squeezing in some moments each week to maintain an art journal - my 'painted thoughts'.  I recently purchased a Moleskine art pad from Amazon, Ooooh these books wonderful!  You can also make your own journal, which is much cheaper and there are some beautiful handmade ones out there. 

However, I'll blog about my art journal in a separate post at a later date, along with some of the doodles/watercolours I've done so far. I intend to fill up lots of them, I'm bursting with ideas.  Go to Pinterest and search art journaling!  My Pinterest journaling folder full of ideas is here.

Happy drawing!
Karen

Yellow

 

Lovely cheerful Spring yellow!  Yellow tulips always adorn my mantlepiece every Spring, I just can't resist.  My little mustard yellow duck, a set of 3 from Next and good ol' spring daffs.  These little lovelies found their way into my shopping trolley at Tesco last week, complete with a cute little hessian flowerpot.

 

Beautiful Forsythia in full bloom in my garden at the moment. 



Dandelions.......which reminds me I really should weed my garden!

Not strictly yellow, but this little critter ran past me when I was photographing my yellow things.  According to Google it's a Common Newt.  

 

 

Karen ~

Cornflower Cowl Pattern Release!

It's here! All downloaded and now in the Ravelry library :) The Ravelry link is here and if you're not on Ravelry you can also get a PDF version by clicking on the download button in the link here. This is a super quick knit and ideal for a last minute Christmas present!

My bright sunny Citrus version is now finished, as well as my Pincersocks, and hopefully I'll get around to blogging about them tomorrow :)

Cornflower Cowl

Pattern: Cornflower Cowl (my own)

Needles: 4 mm, 16" circular needle

Yarn: Rowan RYC Baby Alpaca in Southdown colour-way

All finished. It is looking likely this will be my first pattern release (as my Cornflower Socks are currently being re-knitted by myself in a bigger size, then off to be test knitted). How exciting! Knitted in super soft Alpaca, this cowl is sumptuous and gorgeous and hangs beautifully around your neck. I can't wait to knit one for myself in a really bright colour!

It is just about to be test knitted and all being well should be released as a freebie pattern on Ravelry in time for Christmas.