June's "Spoiler"

June's "Teaser"

A lovely yarn this month that I don't usually send to the club plus a fun dye technique.

Enjoy everyone and happy summer!

June's Inspiration - Andy Warhol

This painting was so zany I couldn't resist! It is very adorable too and obviously titled "Green Cat"...LOL I have a fun dye technique planned for this one and hopefully it'll surprise you! Also for this month due to my supplier being late with my shipment, you are all getting a super nice and squishy base yarn to play with! Hope you had a nice weekend!

May's "Spoiler"

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!