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What: A Woolie Trunk Show!
When: Saturday, December 1st from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Where: The Woolie Ewe - Plano, Texas - directions here
We will be there with kits, yarn, patterns and fiber in hand. There should be food, spinning wheels, knitting needles and from what I hear a huge selection of Rowan Kidsilk Aura, ahem, you will know where to find me.
Comanche Peak Blue Faced Leicester Top
So... a big announcement and a few changes.
Madelinetosh will now be retailing dyed and un-dyed spinning fibers, spinning wheels and accessories.
I am very excited about being able to share more of my love for spinning with everyone and hope to post a few tutorials on what I have learned by using hand carders, combs and the ungainly niddy noddy soon.
Well, just as soon as I receive this.
As for fiber, these have popped out of the dyepot here recently:
Wildflower Alpaca Top
Ring of Fire MerinoTop
Cool Hand Luke Merino Top
And a few batts have been blended in the drum carder:
I Want Candy
Tundra
So, maybe I will find more of an opportunity now to use these lonely little friends more often:
And a big thanks to everyone who came out to visit at the Jenning Street Yarns Trunk Show. It was great to sit, chat and knit with old and new faces alike. I think I see a Fort Worth spinning group in the works soon!
Trunk Show!
What: Madtosh Trunk Show
When: Saturday, November 10th, 2007 from 10am to 12pm or later
Where: Jenning Street Yarns in Fort Worth, Texas (in a fabulous historic building no less)
Why: because yarn is a necessary and positive addiction? no?
We will be bringing boo-koos of yarn along with the Candy Cane Knee Sock kits and the Chrismukkuh knee socks that I just cannot seem to make fast enough!
Plus, a few of the new colorways for the Winter line will make their debut as well.
Can you say Pop-Rocks, Citrus and Tomato three times in a row really fast?
You can't! Well, neither can I.
By the way!!!!!!!!
Question for each and everyone!
What COLOR would you like to see added to the Winter line?
And has everyone already seen this sock pattern because it is new news to me? But then again I am always so far behind the curve I am usually no where near it, something akin to being at the end of the line where the curve begins.
I am smitten with MimKnits, Eleanora Socks pattern, the historical aspect of the pattern, is very intriguing. The interesting part is I actually purchased a post card of this portrait of Eleanora at the Uffizi in Florence because I was so intrigued by her fingers and the way she carried herself in the portrait. Funny what a small/big world this is.
Count me in on this pattern.
We have been busy bee's over here preparing for this show!
Event: Madelinetosh Trunk Show
Place: The Shabby Sheep in Uptown Dallas, Texas
Date: Saturday, September 29th
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm or whenever we run out of yarn.
Come by and say hi!
xo,
amy
New patterns I am so happy to say!
Daisy Mitts by Mary Kay Bishop for Madelinetosh. Modeled and photographed by the delovely MK.
Pattern specs:
Pattern: Daisy Mitts by Mary Kay Bishop for Madelinetosh
Yarn: 2 skeins of madtosh sock in bark and ginsing
Needles: US size 2 dpn
Simply Mittens by Janice Lynn for Madelinetosh. This is a wonderfully simple but perfectly fitting mitten pattern, ranging from XS to XL.
And of course the requisit shot for any job well done.
Pattern Specs:
Yarn: 1 skein of Madtosh sock in Sigrid
Pattern: Simply Mittens designed by Janice Lynn for Madelinetosh
Needles: US size 2 dpns
All available here.
Bye the way I love this sweater over at Anthropologie and this and this.
These pants are wonderful too! I might have to give the Amy Butler version a go!
xo,
Amy
First of all, thanks so much to all of you who snagged a skein or two from the samples sale!! You guys are wonderful out there!!
And now the big news.
Both the Dimpled Socks and Slippery Socks patterns are now available here.
Dimpled sock in the Chamomile colorway
Slippery socks designed by the wonderful Jean Knapp in the Chartres colorway
And look for the Elves & Elms Socks by Jean below tommorrow afternoon!
xoxo,
Amy
First up.
Yarn: debbie bliss pure cotton, white, two stands held together
Needles: US size 10 addis, magic loop
Pattern: meathead hat by larissa of stitch marker
A fun, crazy-quick knit. Leaves seemed to be proper for this wee hat so I cut out some elongated ones from wool felt samples that I had.
Next, new sock patterns...
copies will be available in store and on the madtosh site by the beginning of next week!!
Slippery Socks by Jean Knapp for Madelinetosh
Elms and Elfs Socks by Jean Knapp for Madelinetosh.
Yay! I can't wait to send these out. The first pair are knit with Chartres Sock and the pair below use Alabaster Sock.
