Robyn’s Gold & Athena

A couple of months ago, when Robyn and I got together to come up with an exclusive colourway for her April sock club, I was excited to help her with designing something unique for her clubbers.  I tossed a lot about a colourway and we both landed on developing something that would be reminiscent of her colours in her store welcome page (particularly the colours of the robin) and that’s when the Robyn’s Gold colourway was born! 

Then a skein went off to Michelle to design a sock pattern and I patiently waited to see how the colourway was going to knit up into a pattern.  Let me tell ya – it’s never easy to sit back and wait for a pattern to be developed – I prefer to see the colourway knit up immediately so I can see if it works or not for the pattern…LOL  Michelle really didn’t disappoint with her Athena pattern either – what a wonderful pattern to compliment the colourway! 

I was so pleased and it was wonderful to work with Robyn and Michelle on this project.  I hope everyone who did get the package is enjoying the pattern and yarn!

Busy Bee

Ya, that’d be me! I have been so busy lately but guess what? I’m taking a much-needed break next week! Phew, I can’t wait! I love dyeing yarn but sometimes, you just need a bit of time to recharge and refocus. Downtime is usually when ideas strike for me so I’m anxious to get away for that reason too.

In the meantime, my store website is getting overhauled which I’m really excited about! I’ve seen mock-ups already and I’m so pleased! The store will be customized and hopefully will make for an easier shopping experience for everyone too. Having a professional work on it means I will also stop trying to change it all the time – it’s a horrible habit when you do all the website stuff yourself – you just always want to change it! This way, I can relax and settle into a theme/look that is being developed and not worry about it! It leaves more time for the yarn and for adding new ideas to my product lines which is always good!

So in the meantime, a photo of yarns that I’ve been working on lately and if you want to see more, come on over and visit my Flickr album – there’s lots of brand new shiny yarn colours in there! 

Everyone have a wonderful week while I’m away!