Mint green

Mint, eucalyptus, this sort of unsaturated, sometimes slightly grey, sometimes more juicy green, I've always liked it a lot but never thought I could pull it off much. I am after all a recovering metalhead* of the may-be-confused-for-a-goth variety.

I guess one of the best side effects of growing older is a very distinct "who the fuck cares" attitude :)

I particularly like these green shades with peachy pink and coral, and I've been pinning lots of those examples in this Pinterest board. I also used it years ago for this necklace I often wear (yes despite all! it is small ;) where I combined eucalyptus green and teal (it depicts eucalyptus leaves and blossoms after all) with the pink of the blossoms and the setting in copper - I love copper and I wish it didn't stain skin green!):

Eucaliptus - Necklace and earrings 2008
Enamel over copper, copper, aventurine, amazonite 

So, last Friday I went to the local yarn store with my friend. I am happy to say she may now have been bitten and irredeemably infected by the knitting bug ;D while there I was having a look at the new spring/summer yarns. I do have a clear objective this spring/summer which is to overcome my knitting curse: ever since I started knitting just now 4 years ago, I haven't been able to pick up the needles during the spring and particularly during the summer months. Probably a failure to pick up suitable yarn and/or projects. So yeah, I thought I should pick a decidedly summery yarn. Here it is:

Katia Mykonos

My original idea was to knit a Coachella which has been on my queue for a long time, and I wanted to knit it in black or dark grey. Yeah I know... but for that more casual look I always must revert to the metalhead of the may-be-confused-for-a-goth variety, nothing to do about it. So I had my doubts I would actually get much use of a sleeveless top in this shade. Shawl it is:

I am making it up as I go. I quite like the fabric produced by this yarn (I am using needles slightly bigger than recommended). The yarn itself is quite cool as well. Bunch of darker green matte threads + 1 golden thread wrapped in a light and shiny thread, which gives a stiff silk/papery look. The yarn however feels deliciously soft and knits very drapey. We'll see where this goes! I have so much yarn (5 balls) that I may make a fully fringed shawl. Shock, horror.

I probably should have kept this yarn for later in the year when it gets warmer, at this rate it won't last long, and these last two days we have had to put the heating on... but I guess there is more where this came from ;)

*Recovering in the fashion sense, into which I very happily relapse when I feel like it. Never "recovering" in the musical sense though!

Busy day :)

Today I finally published my Esporòfits eBook with all the patterns! also on Etsy and Patternfish (to go up soon, this goes to my pattern page meanwhile).

I revised the patterns thoroughly yet again, and decided it was about time I published the mittens' pattern in Spanish. I had a nearly finished translation around for ages and today I finished it up, laid it out in the new landscape design, and published it in Ravelry as well.

Yesterday my featured pattern add started running on the Ravelry pattern page so I am hoping a little more exposure these 15 days :)

Chordata eBook and hat are up on Etsy as well. And I suppose that is all for today! Messy kitchen here I come ;P

Hair and two new hats

Yesterday, I went to the hairdresser. I had not gone to one since 2004 or thereabouts. Before that, very long stretches of time passed in between visits, too. Simply, it has been a very rare occasion that I have come out of one satisfied (and a few of those where happy freak accidents).

One such time is when I got a haircut in an Afro salon (to fix a disgraceful haircut I got talked into). This woman actually knew how to deal with curly hair! I have always wanted long hair anyway so I switched to cutting my hair myself every many months or years. It is actually very easy if you want a simple haircut (which is always advisable for curly hair anyway!). I follow this technique. If you Google that you will find more info, even some videos. I cut my boyfriend's hair this way as well. His is very loosely wavy which is less forgiving than mine (which curls up and you wouldn't see hem imperfections anyway), but this has always worked beautifully.

But I digress. Yes I went to the hairdresser to get my hair lightened. I have become quite bored with my appearance of late. I blame this on a recalcitrant eyelid eccema due to which I can't wear makeup, not in the way I like anyway! So hair it is, I decided to sacrifice my "virgin" (all of it was not chemically treated and only very seldom I briefly bring a hairdrier near it) hair in the altar of boredom.

Basically I wanted to lighten slightly all over, evenly, and gradually lighten more and more later on, then have a warm coppery tone all over. I did want lighter tips and darker roots to avoid high maintenance of roots, and because I just like lighter tips.
I chose a salon because they use Elumen hair dye which I wanted to try, and I am very happy with the actual colour. Not the bleaching though. I was advised against all over lightening since this supposedly damages the hair too much. I said I just wanted this effect, do it any way you like, but please no stripey highlights. Well, I got, you guessed it, nearly the opposite of what I asked for :D Got some stripey highlights on my crown, with to high a contrast with my very dark natural colour, and the tips of my hair look nearly the same, much darker. Sigh? I also don't understand why burning a few strands a lot is better than burning them all just a little, especially if this is not at all the effect I was looking after.

Quick phone snap my friend took

Again, I think this happened due to my hair structure. Even when dyeing, curly hair doesn't behave in the same way. I have a great taper from roots to tips (which resulted in a much smaller volume of actual hair being highlighted at the tips than the roots when done the usual way), and once it dries it behaves very differently from straight hair (the curls make deep shadows, but the crown lays flat). Will I ever learn?

I am left with two choices, throwing away more money to apparently not get what I want, or trying to do it myself. We'll see...

On to more positive things! I have published two hat patterns this month :) both match other patterns because I am perhaps a little bit obsessed with sets!

First came my Esporòfits Beret. I have mentioned it before. I had it tested by some great ladies and now it is published too!

It is now available in Etsy, Ravelry and Patternfish!

For this one I also took a video illustrating the cast on method (alternate Twisted German and Long Tail COs):

Next in line is the Chordata hat. This one was designed quite organically. I wanted the hat to cover my ears without coming down too low over my eyes, so I made a piece of ribbing for the back, and then two flaps picked up from there and joining at center front, from which stitches are (partially, since the ribbing is continued uninterruptedly) picked up for the body of the hat. Once finished I realised I could also wear it backwards in a similar manner. I went for a slouchy hat but the pattern includes directions for a more fitted one as well:

Already available in Ravelry, soon also in Etsy and Patternfish :)

As I was writing this entry, I received a wonderful package from the amazing artist János Gábor Varga: Etsy shop, Website, Flickr, Boticca interview. I love the clever ways in which he manipulates simple chunks of iron! His progress pictures are always fascinating. Finally I own one of his pieces :) I couldn't pass this beautiful one up, originally titled Medusa from Italian (such we call jellyfish in most latin languages), it does indeed look like one of these fascinating creatures, and my screen name being Medvssa in many places, I couldn't pass it up! 

Work in progress and finished piece, pictures by János

Together with this one, I received a collaboration piece he worked on as well. I sent him two enamels and he sent one of them back set in a beautiful riveted copper box (it was admittedly a rather big enamel for a pendant!) with cute matching spoon. His pictures are better than any I could take so here it goes:

I have to see what I use it for, I wouldn't be able to decide which enamel to place in it!

So that will be all for today. For the next day or two I want to work on an unfinished jersey dress I started long ago, hopefully so I can wear it to the Exhibition opening this Friday. I have opened a Pinterest account, and I have found myself pinning lots and lots of jersey dresses with details I like to one of my boards (aptly named "jersey"? haha). Those will be ideas for dresses to come since this one is already cut and partially assembled! lot of ideas though, but very difficult to find the right shades of fabric! There is only one local fabric store with limited choice. I have to find out which stores to visit in Brussels or Antwerp :)

Phew that was a long post :)

Group Exhibition

Image by Annie Bertram

I will participate in this exhibition in March / April with some enamel work. More info coming soon! :)

Relaunched Website!

After a computer incident and finally upgrading to Windows 7, and again with the invaluable help of my personal Code Monkey, Mr. (or should I say DHR?) Pim Volders, it's finally up!

All merged together :) I simplified and streamlined as much as possible... as much as I could anyway! Finally integrated Google Analytics into it, we'll see!

Meanwhile in Knitland, I am having the beret test knit by some great ladies. 

Esporòfits Mitts was my first pattern, published January 2011. More than a year later the Esporòfits set is finished! When the beret pattern is ready, which should be soon, I will publish it, and I will also publish an eBook with all the patterns of the set (so mitts, cowl and beret). I have been working on it the last few days, and it is all ready, minus whatever adjustments need to be done to the beret pattern, and adding written instructions of the cowl charts. The mitts already had them, and it was requested by one of my testers to do this as well for the beret, so for consistency's sake I guess I will have to do the same for the cowl! 

Sigh. I love charts, hehe.

Sneak peek!

Beret teaser there!

So I decided for a landscape format this time. And know what? I like it... It views much better than portrait on screen, and in case of printing, well it just prints landscape :) the ratio is not a DIN. DIN is great but... I wanted something different ;) I took a vintage, or perhaps antique? paper size called Antiquarian, and scaled it down proportionally. I think it is a pleasing ratio :) Not yet sure if I will continue to use this ratio, but I will probably switch to landscape for good. I think it is more handy, and I think it has more design possibilities.

I still have an embroidery post pending, be back soon!

Yarrrrrrrn!

I received a package today. Some vintage yarn, an embroidery hoop, and some old (made in Western Germany!) Prym pressure buttons I found on Ebay Belgium. A shop was selling old stocks, probably from a haberdashery that closed up. I don't actually know how old the yarn is and if it qualifies as vintage. It is discontinued, probably for a long time, and the labels are decidedly vintage-looking. In any case the yarn is 40% angora 60% wool, thin like a light fingering, and very nice. The natural tone is perfect and the red is not too bright, not too dark. It was a good deal and I do have a soft spot for angora (no pun intended).

I got all of the natural yarn they had, but will have a hard time not going back for some more of the red!

I was actually just looking for an embroidery hoop. This one is good and sturdy, but a bit thin. It was a very good deal, but perhaps it is too thin for thicker fabric. Last week I got bitten by the embroidery bug (once every 15 years or thereabouts) and my non-adjustable hoop wasn't cutting it. I am using a thick linen. I will expand about this in another post.

Regarding unemployment, I just today got a letter from the unemployment office as well. I have to go to an info session for a course I inscribed to. If I remember correctly there was a waiting list, I don't actually know what an info session entails. It is for "Graphic techniques" (mainly DTP). We'll see!

Website and beret

Yesterday evening I started working on a project I had in the backburner for a very long time:  a matching hat for my Esporòfits set, I decided for a beret style.

 I continued working today, and have the ribbing and the increase/wrapped stitch section done, but then my elbow started giving me grief and I had to stop. It appears I am not as recovered as I thought form my last job...

So I stopped knitting and moved on to redesign my website. I have decided to "merge" knitting and enamelling websites (after a fashion, since I never got to make a knitting website proper) as I mentioned in my previous post. I decided to simplify and streamline everything as much as possible, and I also decided to change to a light palette for my website (right now it is a dark taupe). I have already changed the design of the blog which will be integrated as it was before, this reflects the new colour palette of very light desaturated green and very dark reddish purple and petrol.

I have several pages done and the menu too. Screenshot of my new intro page:

Merging blogs

Today we had our first day of real snow. It has grown dark now, and big flakes are still swirling outside.

The view from my living room window this afternoon

I come back from my last day of work. After being unemployed for a few months, which I cannot say was too bad since it gave me plenty of time for knitting and designing, I worked for three weeks at a 3D printing company, in the finishing department. This proved a bit too hard on my joints and, still in my temporary test period, I had to stop. The job and the people were cool and for that I am a little sad, but I am also happy that the pain in my joints and the foreboding of injuries to come have been lifted from my shoulders. My last two days were part-time and I already feel improvement, which is a relief.

On to a new start. I have decided to study, to obtain some certifications that may help me find a job that I will find interesting and that won't be too physically demanding. Meanwhile, I will pursue knitwear design in full. It hasn't worked too badly for me, and I am hopeful.

These last months, enamel and jewellery-making have taken a back seat. I see a trend in my interest, related to the seasons, and I tend to knit more in winter, and enamel more in summer (to the extent that I stop the other activity altogether!). I am not too sure that this is actually related to the weather, since enamelling in summer is much warmer than holding some yarn in your fingers :) but perhaps there is something to it.

I haven't been knitting for that long, just since March 2009 (it really seems like yesterday!) and I still have to break this summer curse. Last years I wasn't too serious about it, but this next summer I will try harder. I do love lighter knits, too. Although I have to say, I am very fond of winter :)

Perhaps, decompartimentalizing (is that a word??) would help. In this spirit, I have decided to merge my blogs, and have just imported all my knitting entries over to this one. I was posting in either one or the other, it appears, and I did not post all that much anyway, so I do not see the point of keeping both. I would merge my websites but... I still haven't made my knitting website. Which is a good thing since I would have to merge them now! So I will simply redesign my website and include everything in it. I hope to work on this this weekend. Deadlines do not agree with me so I will see if I finish :) more likely that I finish if I don't stress over deadlines.

If I am honest there is also another reason why enamel and jewellery-making have fallen to the back-burner. Simply, enamelled jewellery of the kind I make is very difficult to sell. It involves many work hours, costly materials, and why not say it, a lot of knowledge and experience I had to gain after many years of work.
This is not too obvious in the finished work, cheap copies could easily be mass produced in cheaper materials (if only the style was trendy anyway) and most people probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. At least from internet pictures. I totally understand that and I do not imply that because of my work's intrinsic value people should fall over their feet to buy it. I do it because I like it, and if people don't like it, or don't think it is worth so much, or can't afford it, that's fine. But I do find it more difficult to dedicate myself to it fully because of this. Not least of all because I need to invest a significant amount of resources in materials and tools alone. Knitwear design in this respect is more fulfilling.

I do have another idea that has been lurking at the back of my mind and that I would like to realize at some point, sooner than later. I have dabbled in shawl-pins, gifted most, sold a few, kept a pair. They were just prototypes, and beaded. I would actually like to expand in this idea, perhaps sell them. I would like to include enamel in them, although this is technically difficult (enamelling involves firing at high temperatures which softens the metal, so it would have to be forged after enamelling, which endangers the enamel), I want to try. Cast may be a solution, but this would make the pins too heavy.
I think about stitch markers too. We will see :)

Angora Cheese Cake

Popped a partial cake of Orkney 100% Angora into this tiny cheese bell, I find them to be the cutest things ever, and this little one made me squee when I saw it :)

I am now using it as desk decoration.

Winter blues

On Monday, I decided to dye a light blue handknit sweater that was a hand-me-down from someone when I was 15 or so. It was knitted by a lady in Hong-Kong, I know that much. I was told it was wool, and it is certainly quite warm. Pastel sky blue with an intarsia scene of a tree, some guys fishing and a fence, in white and navy. I guess it is much what could be considered a slightly ugly 80's sweater, although fortunately quite fitted. It does fit very well, but has been langhishing for decades in a box due to the colour scheme.

I landed a job in a cold wokshop so I decided to dye it. I prepared a dye bath with some yellow and some blue, hoping for teal. After dyeing, which was partly successful, I got some sort of undefined greyish, darkish robin's-egg blue. Wearable. In a cold, dusty workshop. I also think now that this sweater has some synthetic blended it in, it didn't take the dye well, and I see some sort of shininess on the fibers. It is still warm enough. I think the right sleeve is also shorter than the left (both fairly short, probably little-chinese-lady sized, but I am very small in the upper body so the rest fits ok), which is all right since I do dusty work and I wear a light wrist brace on the right arm.

Teeswater worsted in front
Texere 2 ply at back

Anyway :) with the leftover dye water I dyed some yarn! I still have about 3 litres worth of (not very saturated) dye bath in plastic bottles, that can perhaps be used at a later date (the bath I used was already partially recycled).

I dyed one skein of Teeswater 4-Ply Worsted Wool from Higher Gills Farm that I have been treasuring for a while. It takes the dye beautifully as my experience was when I dyed a pair of my Esporòfits mittens after knitting them (ombré, from dark to light green, seen at right). The yarn is glossy and a bit hairy. I still have about half a skein of natural white, and I may or may not use both the teal-ish and the natural together (note to self: if you do, check for leaks first).

So I just held the unfurled skein as a loop, dipped it in the dye bath quickly, brought it up, and then squeezed well the upper portion while leaving the bottom of the loop in the bath. I kept dipping the lower portion a few times, wrapped the loop carefully in a bowl with the darker loop at the bottom, as a bit of the dye bath, and nuked, then repeated the operation, adding a little bit more blue acid dye to the bowl. The result is a skein that is ombré dyed from the bottom to the top of the loop. The contrast between light and dark is a little more intense than it shows on this picture. Sort of Robin's-egg blue to teal.

Now, I have to admit that I am not a great fan of variegated yarns. I rather dislike quick and strong colour changes such as the yarn I used in this project. It can be seen in the bottom picture, since I overdyed it. In this case it looks sort-of-like camo print, which is a slight redeeming quality, but still, not a fan. I do like subtle changes as in semi-solids. I am not a fan of self-striping either. I love solids. And I love ombré, which of course works best when dyeing after knitting as I did with the mitts (yes I know there are graduated-colour knitting yarns, but the choice is rather small, and sometimes the change is quite sudden).

So, perhaps I will regret having dyed this yarn like I did. Perhaps not. Will depend on the project, I guess, and if I mix it in stripes. We will see. I still love the tones.

I also wound a little (19g) center-pull ball of Texere Pure Lambswool 2ply laceweight and dyed it too. I absolutely love this super fine but still fluffy yarn. I knitted my Lucy's Wreath with it.

After winding it, I realised I should have skeined, duh! but then I thought, let's experiment instead :) I dipped the little ball in the bath briefly, squeezed it, put it in a little bowl with some dye water, nuked it, repeated, put a very tiny bit of black in the bowl, dipped the outside of the ball, nuked... I don't even remember anymore all the abuse. Then I washed it best I could, squeezed well and left it over the heating for a bit before I wound it into a skein to dry. Once dry I wound it again. the colour, a lightly variegated greyish blue-green. I am pleased. Now I have to figure out what can I do with such a small amount of laceweight!

Yarn swift and winder

Being a bit tired of winding hanks of yarn by hand, some time ago I started looking for an umbrella swift and a yarn winder.

I wanted a wooden umbrella swift because I love how they look, to be honest, but they also seem to be sturdy and useful. I prefer to spend a little more money and get a more durable item that performs well, so regarding the wool winder it wasn't at all clear to me which one to go for. I found a couple of great-looking ones, but the cost is a bit prohibitive for me at the moment. I wasn't convinced by the little plastic ones that pop up often either. I am not a fan of plastic moving parts, and I read reports of them wearing off or breaking.

Several weeks ago I found a relatively local source for the umbrella swift (in the NL), and the price + shipping was good. I bought it from stormopzolder.nl/ (here, at the very bottom of the page, as "wolhaspel") and received it promptly. Good service, I recommend it! The swift in particular is a Glimakra, made in Sweden out of birch wood.

There are a couple of wire girdles and the poles are tied with string, for the rest it is entirely and nicely made out of wood.

Loki needs to inspect everything...

When I received it, the finish was pretty good, but I still sanded the central parts where the wool would rest with a 600 grit emery paper (this is pretty fine-grained), since very thin wool was still catching slightly on it. I also rubbed a piece of white soap along the wooden parts that have friction to make movement easier.

This project is an Ugh

The second (yellow), slightly better

For a while I did wind by hand out if it, which was already an improvement from having the wool resting on some chair backs. I also tried an improvised nostepinne, out of a tool I use in the jewellery workshop, which admittedly is a little too short. This made nice(r) cakes, at least after trying a few times, but honestly, it was still a pain!

So tedious!

This was epic, 875 yards of Drops Lace yarn. Gah.
By the end you can see I got kind of lazy... but I swear it is nicer inside ;P

So I continued researching yarn winders, and it wasn't too easy to find reviews. Eventually, scouring German Ebay for "wollwickler", I found an expired (sold) listing for a vintage yarn winder that looked pretty solid: Knittax wollwickler (wool winder). I also found a handful of mentions via Google searches and people seemed to be happy with this item. I found a listing on Ebay.com (from the US) for a reasonable price (including the shipping, more than a plastic winder, a lot less than a modern wooden winder), so I went ahead and bought it.

I received it just today! I am very happy with the construction. It is built around a sturdy cast iron body, with machined gears, other metal moving parts, a wooden handle and cone for the wool (smooth and varnished) which also has rubber ring at its base.

In fact, there was some sort of lightweight metal swift in the box as well, but missing the clamp for the table, and I am not very interested in it anyway so I put it away in its box.

I impatiently put it to the test! first I wound was a skein of 50g of Drops Karisma DK weight (which totally didn't need to be wound but I had just received it this morning and was thus very much at hand!). Next were a couple of partial (less than 50g) hanks of Cascade 220 sport-weight wool. All of them went like a dream.

Winding the yarn a few times, then inserting it into the slit.
This way you will find the strand for a center pull cake.

Next was another 50g of Isager Spinni Tweed, which is like a light fingering weight and very sticky yarn (I love the texture of this yarn, but it is so annoying to wind by hand!). This also went well, although there was more resistance. I felt I needed to feed the yarn from the swift somewhat to avoid a cake that was too tensely wound. Here the Spinni Tweed, Karisma, and both Cascade 220 (green and brown cakes).

On to more serious matters, next was a 100gr hank of Marine Silk from Blue Moon Fiber Arts, a heavy hank (the instructions of the winder recommend max. 50gr of yarn) of a slightly slippery, generous fingering wool weight yarn. This most definitely needed help along the way. I found some sort of rhythm that worked well and rather quick. I made a little video:

Once there was less yarn in the swift, it went along easier.

And then I moved along to the last ordeal: 100g of lace-weight, single ply wool, a whopping 1100y. I love this wool! It is Tanhu from Wetterhoff, a Finnish brand. This yarn is temporarily unavailable, and I do hope it comes back in stock soon because it is delicious. 

This time I mounted the swift horizontally (and had to clamp it on the cat tree since I couldn't do that on any of my tables!), since this may help the unwinding along, and it did.

Perhaps it would have been best to help the yarn along as well, but I wanted to try not doing so, and the skein ended up a little bit tight, such that it wasn't as easy to remove from the winder once finished. The cone is wide, however, and once out, with the yarn relaxing inwards and a little massage, the cake does not feel particularly tight to me.

Tanhu and Marine Silk

All in all, I am very happy with this team! :) I do recommend this winder, they still pop up now and then on Ebay.

European Online Yarn Shops Directory

This is a non-comprehensive list of European Online Yarn Shops.
At the end of the list, a few Overseas shops are listed, which offer worldwide free shipping or reduced shipping costs.

Under the hyperlink to the shop, you can find the yarn brands each shop offers. This may not be up to date. To search a particular yarn brand within this page, use your browser search (F3, CTLR+F, / etc). To go to shops in a particular country, use the navigation below.

This list is obviously incomplete, and it may not be up to date. Please feel free to suggest shops to be added, report broken links, changes in yarns stocked, etc.

Go to: BE DE DK EE ES FI FR GB (UK) IE NL PT TR /// AU CA US
(these links above are broken right now, I'll be fixing them hopefully sooner rather than later, meanwhile just scroll down ;P)

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BE

http://www.dolcelana.be/
BC Garn, Bergère de France, Drops, Fyberspates, Katia, Lang Yarns, Malabrigo Yarn, Bergère de France, Regia, Rowan, Sirdar, Sublime

http://shop.catherinejanssens.be/
Manos Del Uruguay, Knit Collage, BC Garn, Järbo, Artesano

DE

http://www.wollbox.de/
ALPACA YARN COMPANY, ASLANTRENDS Yarn, BROWN SHEEP Yarn, CARIAD Yarn, CASCADE Yarn, CONJOINED CREATIONS Yarn, CRYSTAL PALACE Yarn, FILCOLANA Garn, FLEECE ARTIST Yarn, HANDMAIDEN Yarn, FYBERSPATES Yarn, GRIGNASCO-MADIL Garn, JOJOLAND Yarn, LACE Garne, LOTUS Yarn, PEACHES & CREME Yarn, PLYMOUTH Yarn, SILKE / BERTAGNA by ARVIER, SIRDAR Yarn, SUBLIME Yarn, SIRDAR & SUBLIME Bücher, TILLI TOMAS Yarn, WETTERHOFF Lace-Garn, ZITRON Garn & Strickhefte, RELLANA, Online & Co., SCHACHENMAYR Garn, SOCKENWOLLE

http://www.woll-sucht.de/
GGH und Colinette, Drops / Garnstudio, Design Club, Noro, Karen Noe,
Mirasol, Araucania, Debbie Bliss, Louisa Harding, Rowan, Zitron, Schoppel, Regia, Opal, Trekking, Kauni, Evilla

http://www.mariannes-opalwolle.de
Zitron, Lang, Malabrigo, Drops Garnstudio, Evilla, Lana Grossa, Opal

http://www.sockenwolle.de/
Opal

http://www.strickstduschon.de/
Lang, Opal, Schachenmayr, Schöller&Stahl, Colinette, Debbie Bliss, Gedifra, Horstia, Islandwolle, Katia, Lang, Noro, Rowan

http://www.knittybitty.de/index.php
Knitpicks, Koigu, South West Trading Company

https://eshop.t-online.de/epages/Store4.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Shop38135
Debbie Bliss, NORO, Handgefärbte Garne (hand dyed yarn), Schoppel, Araucania, Zitron, ProLana, Bremont

http://www.mylys.de
Artesano, Lollipop.yarns, Louet, Malabrigo, Schoppel Wolle, ShibuiKnits, Sublime

http://www.wolle-traub.de/
Traub Wolle

http://www.wollinchen.de/
Harrisville, Hjertegarn, Noro, Ashford, Wollinchen, Sandnes Garn, Zitron

http://www.wollstoff.de/index.php/cat/c60_Wollgarn.html
Wollgarn

DK

http://www.garn.dk

http://karen-noe.dk/
Karen Noe

EE

http://www.hobipunkt.ee/pood/lang-en/5-Yarn
Aade Lõng, Drops, Evilla, Hapsalu shawl / Estonian natural wool yarn, Midara, Novita, Four Seasons Gründl

ES

http://www.tiradelovillo.com/catalogo.php
South West Trading Company, Rowan, Gedifra, Schachenmayr nomotta (Regia), Manos, Artesano, Opal

http://lamaisonbisoux.bigcartel.com/
Abuelita, Wetterhoff, Katia, Kauni, Holst

http://www.xisqueta.cat/
Obrador Xisqueta

FI

http://www.titityy.fi/nettikauppa
Araucania, BC Garn, Fleece Artist, Handu, Kollage, Hemp for Knitting, Natural Dye Studio, Noro, O-Wool, Patons, Peace Fleece, Pirtin kehräämö, Rowan, Schoppel-Wolle, Shibui Knits, South West Trading Company

http://shop.wetterhoff.fi/index.php?id=462&lang=2
Wetterhoff

FR

http://leslaines.com/
Rowan, Noro, Mission Falls, Debbie Bliss, Araucania, Kauni, COPROCA, Gedifra, Regia, Malabrigo, Katia, Namaste Sathi

http://www.albayarns.com // http://www.knitnaturelle.com
BERGERE de France, Debbie Bliss, SIRDAR, Opal, King Cole, Alba Yarns

http://www.toutesenlaine.com/shop-toutesenlaine-home.html

http://www.boutiquedelaine.com/
Kartopu, Ice Yarns

http://www.tricotin.com/
Adriafil, Feza, Knit Picks, Lammy, Ligne Noire, Madame Wombat, Mondial Filati, Noro, Orenbourg, Renaissance Dyeing, Tilli Tomas
Addi, knitpro needles...

GB (UK)

http://www.loveknitting.com/
Debbie Bliss, Hayfield Bonus, Louisa Harding, MillaMia, Noro, Peter Pan, Regia , Rowan, Sirdar, Snuggly, Sublime, Wendy


http://www.newlanarkshop.co.uk/shop.php
New Lanark

http://www.knitwell.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
Sirdar, Patons, Twilleys of Stamford, Hayfield, Wendy, Rowan, Regia, Stylecraft

http://www.kempswoolshop.com/
Jarol, Patons, Rico, Robin, Rowan, Sirdar, Sublime, Stylecraft, Twilleys, Wendy, Woolcraft

http://www.purlescence.co.uk/
Fleece Artist, Cariad Yarn, The Natural Dye Studio, Claudia Hand Painted Yarns, Handmaiden Fine Yarn, Artyarns, Vinnis Colours, Fyberspates

http://www.wightyarns.webeden.co.uk/
Rowan

http://www.first4yarns.com/
Adriafil Yarns, Araucania Yarns, Artesano Yarns,Artist Palette Yarns, Aslan Trends,Bowmont Braf Knitting Yarn,Cariad Yarn,Cascade Yarns,Colinette Yarns, Crystal Palace Mini Mochi,Debbie Bliss Yarns,Dream in Color,Louet Yarns,Madelinetosh,Malabrigo Yarns,Manos del Uruguay Yarns,MillaMia,Nia Handpainted Yarns,Noro Yarns,Opal Sock Yarn,Peaches & Creme,Rowan,Schoppel Wolle - Zauberball Sock Yarn,Sirdar,Sublime Yarns,Twilleys Yarns,Zen Yarn Garden,King Cole

http://www.getknitted.com/
Araucania, Artesano Alpaca, Blue Sky Alpacas, Spud and Chloe, Brown Sheep, Lamb's Pride, Cascade Yarns, Colinette, Debbie Bliss, Filz-it!, Fyberspates, Wool2dye4, King Cole, Knitwitches Yarn, Lorna's Laces, Louisa Harding, Malabrigo, Manos Del Uruguay, Mirasol, Natural Dye Studio, Noro, Opal, Patons, Regia, Rico, Rowan , Sirdar, Sublime, Zitron

http://www.paviyarns.co.uk
Artesano Alpaca Yarns, Bloomsbury Retro Gimp, Cariad Yarns, Cascade Yarns, Crystal Palace , Knitting Yarns, Debbie Bliss Yarns, Feza Knitting Yarns, Filatura di Crosa, Gedifra, Knitglobal Knitting Yarns, Lane Borgosesia Knitting Yarns, Louet North America Yarns, Louisa Harding Yarns, Manos del Uruguay Knitting Yarns, Noro, Rowan Knitting Yarns, RYC Knitting Yarns, Sirdar Knitting Yarns, South West Trading Knitting Yarns, Sublime Knitting Yarns, Teo's Handspun and Hand Dyed Cashmere, Tilli Tomas Knitting Yarns, Trendsetter Yarns, Twilleys Knitting Yarns of Stamford, Zitron Knitting Yarns

http://www.texere.co.uk
Texere Yarns, Artesano, Cygnet, Debbie Bliss, Elle, J C Brett, King Cole, Laines Du Nord, Louisa Harding, Mango Moon, Mirasol, Noro, Sirdar, Sublime, Twilleys, Wendy

http://thewoolshed.co.uk/
Colinette, Rowan, Exotica, Noro, Debbie Bliss, Louisa Harding, Araucania, Artesano , Opal, Gedifra, Scottish yarns, Mirasol, Manos, Garn Studio, Sublime, Twilleys, Adriafil

http://www.greatbritishyarns.co.uk/
Rowan, British Breed Yarns, Coldharbour Mill, Old Maiden Aunt, King Cole, UK Alpaca, Sublime, Knitpicks

http://www.banyantreeyarns.com
Lion Brand

http://www.yarnundyed.com
Yarnundyed

http://www.blackerdesigns.co.uk
organic undyed wool from British sheep

http://www.organicpurewool.co.uk
organic undyed wool from British sheep

http://www.shilasdair-yarns.co.uk
producer of plant-dyed wool in Scotland

http://www.loopknittingshop.com/
Adriafil, Alchemy Yarns, Be Sweet, Berroco, Blue Sky Alpacas, Cascade Yarns, Colinette, Debbie Bliss, Frog Tree, GGH , Habu, Hand Maiden, Hand Jive, High Fibre, Imperial Stock Ranch, Jade Sapphire, Knit Collage, Knitting Goddess, Koigu, Lana Grossa, Lantern Moon, Louisa Harding, Madelinetosh, Malabrigo, Mango Moon, Misti Alpacas , Meunch Yarns, Noro, Opal, Old Maiden Aunt, Ozark Handspun, Peria, Punta Yarns, Rico, Rowan, Schoppel Wolle, Sublime, Tilli Tomas, Wagtail Yarns

http://www.knitwithattitude.com/
Viking of Norway, Du Store Alpakka, Mango Moon Yarns, Mirasol

http://www.hulucrafts.co.uk/
Adriafil, Debbie Bliss Yarn, Fyberspates, Lily Sugar n' Cream, Louisa Harding, Manos Del Uruguay, Noro, Rico Design, Rowan, Sirdar, Sock Yarn, Sublime, The Natural Dye Studio, Twilleys, Zealana Possum Yarn, Opal, Regia, Trekking

http://handmadenestshop.co.uk
Araucania, Artesano, Austermann, Debbie Bliss, Buffalo Gold, Drops, HW Hammand, Fibre Harvest, Fyberspates, JC Rennie, John Arbon, Excelana, Louisa Harding, Malabrigo, Mirasol, Natural Dye Studio, Nest Naturals, Noro, Opal, Rachel John, Rico, Rooster, Rowan, Silk Indian, Skein Queen, Trekking, Wing Mohair, Isle of Auskerry


SMC, Wash + Filz It!, Katia, Sublime, Noro, Stylecraft, Sirdar, Debbie Bliss, Regia, Rico, Twilleys Goldfingering, Twilleys, Patons, Wendy, Rowan

http://www.knittingwoolandyarnshop.co.uk/
Catherine Earnshaw, Bremont, Malabrigo, Cascade Yarns, Fyberspates, MillaMia, Alpaca Dreams, Twilleys of Stamford, GGH Garn, Louisa Harding Collection, Noro Collection, Debbie Bliss Collection, Wendy, The Knitting Shop, Rowan, Araucania Collection, Mirasol collection, Sublime, Zitron, Opal, Schoeller+Stahl

http://nuttyknittingsupplies.co.uk/
Artesano, Cascade, Lang, Malabrigo, Manos Del Uruguay, Opal, Stylecraft

IE

http://www.theyarnroom.com
Artesano, Manos Del Uruguay, Noro, Rowan, Schoppel Wolle, Cushendale Irish Woollen Mills, Regia Designer Sock Yarn, Icelandic Lopi, Opal Sock Yarn, Debbie Bliss, Austermann, Schoeller + Stahl Filzi, Studio Donegal (Kilcarra of Donegal),DMC

http://thisisknit.ie/
BLUE SKY ALPACAS, BROWN SHEEP, DEBBIE BLISS, DUBLIN DYE COMPANY, GAIETY GIRL, KILCARRA ARAN TWEED, LOUISA HARDING, MALABRIGO, MIRASOL, NORO, OPAL, ROWAN, SPUD & CHLOE, SUBLIME, TILLI TOMAS,
TWILLEYS OF STAMFORD, WENDY

NL

http://www.wolhemel.nl/
Drops, Jaggerspun, Malabrigo, Schoppel Wolle

http://www.astridsdutchobsessions.com/scripts/default.asp
(fleece) Zitron, Evilla, Filitaly-Lab, Kauni, Rowan, DebbieBliss, Garnstudio, Gedifra, Lang, Louisa Harding, Noro

http://wolhalla.nl/
Debbie Bliss, Natural Dye Studio, Schoppel, Araucania, Austermann, Chrystal Palace, Colinette, Dream in Color, Lorna's Laces, Natural Dye Studio, Noro, Opal, Regia, Schoeller & Stahl, Schoppel

http://www.craft4you.nl
(fleece), "Wool from Denmark", Scheepjes, Rico

http://www.stormopzolder.nl
Storm in the Attic

http://www.penelopecraft.com
Cascade, Noro, GGH

PT

http://www.crossedcrafts.com/
Debbie Bliss, Katia, Rosários 4, Sirdar, Noro, Schachenmayr nomotta (Regia), Adriafil, BMG Affinitas, Gedifra

http://www.ovelha-negra.com
Artesano, Debbie Bliss, Manos del Uruguay, Noro, Rowan, Phildar, Regia

http://retrosaria.rosapomar.com/
ATELIER ZITRON, DEBBIE BLISS, KATIA, LOPO XAVIER, MALABRIGO, NORO, OBRADOR XISQUETA, ROSA POMAR, ROSáRIOS4, SCHOPPEL WOLLE, SOTAVE

TR

http://www.yarn-paradise.com/
Kartopu, Ice Yarns


OVERSEAS


AU

http://www.theknittery.com/

CA

http://www.make1yarns.com/
free shipping over $50

US

http://www.littleknits.com/
marks low customs price

http://www.yarnandfiber.com/
no shipping charges