Dear Bloggies:
I'm just back from an enchanting week in Peru where I finally got to go to Cuzco and hike Machu Picchu. As promised, I found lots of enticing Llama and Alpaca Mill End yarns at various dye houses, but my biggest find was a group of Indie Dyers who call themselves Inca Indies. They operate out of a loft in one of the industrial cities, bringing in women from the Andean Highlands to handpaint indigenous colorways on sock yarns.
I also worked with my favorite fair trade co-operative to develop 10 new colorways of Fingerpaints, which is my self striping sock yarn--hopefully we'll have samples to show you soon. We'll be posting more pictures from the Peru trip on our Facebook page, be sure to check them out.
While I was gone, we received another design submission, which I really like. They are a pair of cabled fingerless gloves called Muffin Top Mitts shown in the colorway Morning Glory, designed by Essie Burrell. I love the way this project shows off the self striping aspect of this yarn. Essie says that there is plenty of yarn left for a matching beret. Thanks for the submission!
We are looking at designs all summer and are willing to pay $250 each for our favorites. If you have an original pattern you think would look great with Fingerpaints, send it in, knit on one of our 10 colorways. We are willing to look at any project that uses just one hank of Fingerpaints. If you need the yarn, the original ten colors are available at the Supersock Store.
Many of you have asked when I will begin teaching my new handpainted garment techniques.
I have just heard from XRX that they will be showing several of my painted garments, plus promoting my classes at Stitches South, but will not be offering the classes until Stitches Midwest. If you would like to take my Painted Beret class at Stitches, please contact them through their
Web site.
In the meantime, the Painted Lace Skirt and
Painted Tam (Beret) patterns are available and the Painted Tam is now available in kit form too. One lucky winner will win the kits for both at Stitches South.
Happy Knitting,
Cheryl
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