May's "Teaser"

Just a wee hint of the colourway in the bottom left corner. Make sure to look at the skein closely - there's a few colours in it! :)

May's Inspiration - Michael O'Toole

This month I decided to choose an artist who is a little less well known. I was quite intrigued that he also grew up in Vancouver since I am also a west coast girl. This painting in particular is lovely and reminds me a lot of Vancouver! The title is Aspen Grove.

April's "Spoiler"

April's "Teaser"

A little taste of this month's colourway...yum!

I know it doesn't show much but it is a refreshing colourway for sure - enjoy!

April's Inspiration - Pierre Auguste Renoir

I was in the mood for a spring-like colourway so I turned to Renoir this month for a botanical painting.  This one is gorgeous and it's called Tulipes.

Hope you enjoy the yarn - it's painted on BFL Nylon Sock this month.

March's "Spoiler"

A bright and bold colourway for March's inspiration!  Hope everyone likes it...it is painted on 100% superwash merino and I can't wait to see how this one knits up - it's very colourful!

March's "Teaser"

As you can see, this is going to be a bright colourway...LOL  The colours came out quite saturated this go around...

All the yarns mail today!  Seems like Spring is around the corner too - March sneaked up on me...LOL 

Enjoy!

March's Inspiration - Paul Ranson

This month I decided on an inspiration piece by Paul Ranson called "Christ and Buddha".  It has a lot of lovely colours in it and I decided to play with a couple of them to see what kind of result I would get.  These yarns are dyed so that if you knit socks, you will get mini stripes going on if you don't do a lot of lace within the socks...enjoy!

February's "Spoiler"

I had a lot of fun painting this one as it's a totally different technique that I used to create random application of both colours on the yarns.  To celebrate Valentine's Day for the month of February I decided to send out the Serenity Sock yarn base which has 10% cashmere in it...yum!  Enjoy!

February's "Teaser"

Everything mailed today!  This was a great colourway to paint and also, the base yarn is a bit of a surprise for this month as it's February and Valentine's Day and I thought we needed something a little special for the base yarn :)  Enjoy!

February's Inspiration - Andy Warhol

I've been wanting to work Andy Warhol into the line-up for awhile for this club and this piece seemed quite appropriate given it's Valentine's Day this month!
Appropriately named Heart with a Bow, this piece is circa 1983.

Looking forward to painting this one today...everything mails on Monday!

January's "Spoiler"

Can you see the blue in the painting that I picked up on for the yarn? If you look under his chest, there's a lovely blue mixed with black that caught my eye. To that, I added little bursts of white to add a bit of light to the darkness of the colourway. This is painted on 100% superwash merino with a lovely tight twist - enjoy!

January's "Teaser"

I had fun with this one! I ended up being a little wee bit fixated on a certain colour of this painting which will be explained further with your package :) The teaser hints at the colourway but doesn't give away all - you will see what I mean when you get your yarn! Enjoy everyone!

January's Inspiration - Caravaggio

If you keep up to my blog, you would know already that I visited the Art Institute of Chicago recently. While on my trip there, I had the good fortune to see several different art pieces that were truly gorgeous and for this month of the club, I decided to draw on a piece from the artist who was having a special exhibit at the Institute while I was there. This piece is entitled Narcissus and I love looking at Caravaggio's version compared to Salvador Dali's. Same premise but such a different take.

Here's one shot I got of Carvaggio's work while at the Institute:


Happy New Year everyone!

December's "Spoiler"

I really enjoyed painting this one for everyone! I hope you enjoy knitting with it too! The colourway is called Broken Dreams and is painted on 100% superwash merino with a nice, tight twist.

December's "Teaser"

I had a lot of fun dyeing this one and to achieve a certain effect, I used a slightly different method for dyeing these. I hope you enjoy the yarns as much as I enjoyed dyeing them. It's always fun to see them finished as I never quite know how my vision will translate onto the yarn.

All yarns mailed today...happy holidays everyone!

December's Inspiration - Theo Den Boon

I’m a little early this month with the inspiration piece but I thought I’d try to get it up before the end of the month from now on so those that are wondering if they should join or not will have a chance to take a look at the inspiration piece and have a couple more days to join if they like the piece.

This month? I wanted something red. I think I’m in some sort of red phase or perhaps it goes nicely with the Christmas season. Either way, we haven’t looked at Theo Den Boon yet so this is the piece I have chosen for December entitled Broken Dreams. Gorgeous isn't it?

November's "Spoiler"

And this month's spoiler! I hope everyone enjoys this yarn - I'm anxious to see how this one knits up as the colours will blend nicely together as they knit up side by side. Now onto December...what to do, what to do? Oh, the colourway is called "Scream" and the base yarn is 80% superwash BFL/20% nylon which should knit up into some hard-wearing socks!

Also, if you'd like to follow through Facebook, ZYG now has a fan page - you're welcome to come on over and join :)

November's "Teaser"

A little taste of this month's colourway - it gives some of it away but not entirely! Hope everyone enjoys this yarn base - it's a lovely one for socks and should be hard wearing.

Everything mails today! Enjoy!

November's Inspiration - Edvard Munch

Yet another artist we haven't explored with the club!

This particular painting has a nice feel colour-wise to it for the yarn base this month as the base likes to produce matted colours instead of bright ones. It seemed appropriate for Halloween too given the title of the piece: "The Scream".

Yarns will ship on Monday - have a great weekend!