WOOLganic stocking

WOOLganic-April-stocking, a photo by funknitter on Flickr.

After a quite long break of very little dyeing I have my mojo and parts of my energy back to create some new and some of my old favourite colourways! This time I had so much fun to dye the first time on 12 WOOLganic which is just such a plump, scrumptious yarn. I have not done any boys colourways this time as we are expecting a bubba girl in August and I am just thinking girly or gender neutral colours at the moment...;) Stocking will be Aprl 5, 8 pm (Easter Australian Standard Time)

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Cotton Semi-Solids

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I asked in my wooltopia rav group what would be the preferences for my new Organic Cotton and I saw that Semi Solids were wanted so I decided to create some bold semi solids in aqua, purple/pink and electric blue!

Organic Gradient Cottons :)

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I have dusted my dye pots after a long break and that's what I came up with this last week. I wanted to dye cotton gradients for such a long time and was really itchy creating some.These are dyed on my new Worsted Organic Cotton colour ranging from purple /pink into salmon peach into buttery yellow, flowing into lime green into blue tones

New Logo & new home!

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One week ago I was told that Yarn Collective would be closing down. I panicked a bit and decided that I want my own domain name for my independent store. I looked into it and decided to go with congocart as my shopping cart as I am familiar with the system. We are now found under http://www.wooltopia.com.au.

We will have more changes this year!!Stay tuned!!

Our beautifuln new logo was created by the very talented Sam from Cherry Fresh Art- http://web.me.com/sam_cr/Site/Welcome.html

Blackberry on Cotton/Bamboo

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A customer asked me for a variegated colourway of my Blackberry Gradient, so I created this one which was handpainted in the shade varying from from pale pink into darker pink, bright raspberry into the dark purples. I really love ihow it has turned out especially as it was handpainted on my oh so yummy soft Worsted Cotton /Bamboo!! :)

Organic Eden's Adam

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This is my Organic Turquoise Gradient knitted up into an Eden's Adam.(from the talented lovely pattern designer rav id tikki)

First Gradient on Worsted Organic Cotton!!

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I thought this would be the first yarn of my life which would be undyeable. I really was fighting at the start of the gradient to get some colours on this yarn! I didn't give in and create a beautiful boy gradual gradient in turquoise-blue tones.:) The yarn took eventually the dye beautifully just needs lots of dyes and was not really bleeding a lot when rinsed. Have knitted it already up in an Eden's adam for my DS.It is not splitty even not when I had to restart my garment which was at first try far too big.

The Cotton is quite soft and has brown specks throughout the yarn which is not a quality problem, it just shows the husks and seeds of the cotton which are not bleached in organic cottons. The specks are not really noticable in the knitted garment! THe Organic Cotton will be my regular Worsted cotton as I prefer it to the 10 Ply Worsted Cotton which I have usually which is Peaches and Cream! I can source it from my LYS (Local Yarn Store) which will also stock my gradients in Organic Cotton and 4 PLy Kiama (Silk/Merino)! :)