September's New Colors and Koigu Pairings

Posted on September 16, 2016 | 0 Comments

September's new colors chiagu.com

Striking new KPPPM colors are 15% off until September 23rd! From left to right: P106, P112B, P134, P370 and P603. 

  • We had P106 earlier this year; however it was more blue with less pink and yellow. Another good choice for baby projects.
  • P112B is a fantastic purple with green and violet - fabulous color for folks who love strong colors.
  • I like to describe P134 as a "dark rainbow", a nice complement to those jackets we wear when it gets cooler.
  • We had P370 previously but it was more grey and not as speckled as this dyelot. It's a lovely blue with teal occasionally peeking out.
  • I'm loving P603 which is orange with some curry yellow. It goes well with our newest KPM color - 2400-0013 which is the color black. (Halloween colors anyone?)

Speaking of KPM - I'm adding the solid colors throughout the year and move the KPM yarn to their own section on the website.

 

Koigu Pairings KPM/KPPPM yarn

See how the KPM plum picks up the plum in the multicolor skein? One of the customer I know in real life has already scoop up this pairing for her Koigu collection.

I've started to pair up single skeins of KPPPM (multicolors) with single skeins of KPM (solid colors). I call them Koigu Pairings . Let me know how you like them.

New York Sheep and Wool (Rhinebeck) is around the corner and for the second year I will be a vendor at the Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Trunk Show Friday evening. I've been sewing up a storm - there are new prints for the drawstring project bags and (hopefully) I can sneak in one or two new bag styles. I love meeting you guys - stop by and say hello!

Posted in black, blue, indie untangled, koigu pairings, KPM, KPM2400, KPPPM, new colors, NY, NYSW, orange, P106, P112B, P134, P370, P603, pastels, project bags, purple, rhinebeck, sheep, wool

August's New Colors

Posted on August 18, 2016 | 0 Comments

We have three pretty blues for the dog days of summer.  From left to right the colors are P446, P409, P303. They are 15% off until August 24th.

Color P446-0003 is gorgeous, I would make something that I could look at while I wore it, like gloves or a shawl. 

Color P409-200 is beautiful, it's very close to a Koigu blue that I used for my Clapotis scarf. 

Color P303-0002 is hard to photograph. There is more of a brown/violet cast to it, not beige or yellow.  Pretty, muted and subtle would be the three words to describe the color - it would be a gorgeous sweater.

As the summer winds down, we are finalizing plans to be at the Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Show (October 2016) as well as Vogue Knitting Live NY (January 2017).

And we're excited to have our projects bags find a home at a new Brooklyn yarn store (more about this tomorrow)!

Posted in blue, Clapotis, fingering, Indie Untangled, merino, P303, P409, P446, Project bags, Rhinebeck, sock yarn, Trunk Show, VKL, Vogue Knitting Live, weight

Rhinebeck 2015 ...and a lovely time was had by all

Posted on October 23, 2015 | 4 Comments

The New York Sheep and Wool Festival (aka Rhinebeck) is always held the third full weekend in October. I've been going for over 10 years, starting with day trips and lately for the whole weekend. This year we participated in the Indie Untangled Rhinebeck Trunk that took place Friday night.  

Here is the booth being setup up (with much help from Lexie).  I sewed project bags of various sizes and I even pulled an all nighter to get them done. It was a successful show for us and we hope to do it again next year. Over the weekend I'll replenish the Chiagu website and the Chiagu Etsy store with the remaining bags.

Eight of us rented a house for the weekend and we got off to a slow start Saturday morning. My inner giddiness surface when the first thing I saw was the nun walking two baby cashmere goats.  I'm pretty sure I squealed.  And every year there is a nun walking goats. I took an adorable picture of my friend Margaret and one of the goats:

It was a cool and crisp Saturday - those who knitted Rhinebeck sweaters wore them comfortably. As we walked the Dutchess County fairgrounds we saw spectacular color:

and in the vendor barns you saw cool business banners like this one:

I can say confidently that this was the most popular knit project:

Here's a close up of the Shetland Baa-ble Hat knitted by my friend Pamela:

That sheep hat was everywhere! It's a free pattern from the Shetland Wool Week website.

And who doesn't like running into a llama taking a walk?

By the end of Saturday we were all tired. Some of my housemates bought goodies in the Food Barn so we had a delicious dinner of appetizers and alcohol:

There's bread, several different types of cheese, olives, pickles, chorizo and sweet Italian sausages. Dessert was the same idea (and we forgot to take a picture of it).

As for Sunday I have to admit I was a sheep stalker.  A Herdwick sheep stalker.

I've been a Twitter follower of James Rebanks aka @herdyshepherd1 for a couple of years now.  His Twitter feed is full of gorgeous pictures of the Lake District, his herding dogs, and his Herdwick sheep.  So when I saw this Herdwick ewe I had to see what she was up to.  Her name is Haylie - she and a baby Herdwick were part of a sheep talk.  When it was over they were walked to a pen in the next barn. I watched them eat and then Haylie walked over to her owner, Erin Bradt from Helder-Herdwyck Farm, for some petting.  

ADORABLE.

And then I got to pet Haylie. She was SO SWEET.

Herdwick sheep Hayllie

And yes I ended up buying two aran weight skeins of Herdwick yarn.  And that's another year for Rhinebeck.  

Chiagu Rhinebeck 2015

So thank you to my fabulous housemates (yes, we had a selfie stick that we used at the house.  Remarkably there were no selfie stick sightings on the fairground).

Already making plans for next year and I can't wait to see Haylie the Herdwick again!

 

Posted in @herdyshepherd1, Baa-ble hat, food, Hayllie, Helder Herdwyck Farm, herdwick, Indie Untangled, james rebanks, llama, New York Sheep and Wool Festival, Rhinebeck, sheep, twitter

 

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