July has been a busy month for me, finishing projects, starting new ones (more about these at a later date), then dividing time between Yorkshire and Scotland. Where did July go? Anyway, before more time slips by and August begins, thought I'd write a quick update.
A few weekends ago I attended a very enjoyable Blogstars meet up in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire. We catch up every six months or so to find out about the latest Stylecraft yarn releases, also to share "important" knitting and crochet chit chat. Meeting up on the day were, (see above group photo from left to right), Heather, Sarah, Phil, Lucia, Helen, Sandra, Kathryn, Emma, me, and seated Catherine. Also in attendance via Skype link from around the world were Angela, Zelna, Polly, Ann and Michelle. Two more Blogstars who were unable to make it on the day are Lucy, and Jane.
Stylecraft are launching a number of new yarn shades this Autumn / Winter. One yarn which I'm able to tell you about now is a particular favourite of mine, Batik DK. There are four new shades in the range, Silver, Mint, Rose and Lupin.
Inspired by Sandra's lovely and very organised collection of Special DK yarn samples which she brought with her on the meet up day...
...I thought it was time to put my growing collection of Batik DK into some sort of order, using these cardboard embroidery bobbins...
The initial release of Batik DK included 16 shades...
... now total of 20 including the new shades...
I've enjoyed working with this yarn previously on a crochet project using a small selection of colours. There's more about this project in an earlier post here.
I have an idea for a knitting project using some of the new shades. In the coming weeks and months I'll be able to tell you about that and about even more shade additions. Plus there'll be news of other interesting and exciting developments from my day out in Yorkshire.
