I started dyeing up silk hankies (matawa) in January and recently added them for sale to my website. Matawa are 100 % silk hankies with dozens of layers in each hankie. Each layer can be spun one at a time or can be drafted (stretched) and knitted directly. There are several silk hankies in each 1 oz (28 g) package. I have also created a few 1/2 oz (14 g) packages to enable people to give this a try with only a small investment. A few weeks...

This option allows you to create your custom shawl kit by allowing you to select the shawl pattern and the yarn and colourway. Your shawl kit will be packaged in one of these boxes and it counts as one item for shipping. Step 1: Choose your shawl pattern from Natalie Servant Designs. You can find a list of Natalie’s patterns here. Step 2: Choose your yarn and colourway that you would like from the yarn currently available on this website....

On Wednesday, February 12th, I went to the 15th annual Chesterville Spin-In with Francine of Fancy That – Creations by Francine. This was my first time attending this event, but Francine had attended this event as a vendor for the last two years. As our tables were beside each other, we pushed our two tables together and did a combined table as we often do. I tried to take a picture of our whole combined table but I realized when I...

Colour The Maplewoods colourway is a mix of various shades of brown ranging from a golden brown to a reddish brown. Yarn Details Merino/Silk DK is a 4-ply yarn 50% superwash merino and 50% silk soft with a lovely shine to the yarn 100 g and 211 m (231 yards)   There are 3 skeins available in this dye batch. $37.00 Cdn Shipping (Canada/US): $6.50 for first item(kit is 1 item), $1.00 for additional item     project ideas This yarn...

 My friend Francine of Fancy That – Creations kindly came over on Friday night with her shawl pins, stitch markers and mannequins to help me set up our display for the open house. As you can see from the pictures below, she is very good at creating beautiful displays. The pictures of the display were taken by my friend Natalie of Natalie Servant Designs kindly on my behalf with my camera on Saturday morning. The two black binders...

Thank you to everyone who entered my contest and for the lovely comments and suggestions as to what they would make with this yarn if they won. And the winner is Josephine Cheung with comment #4 who said that “I would make a shawl, or pair it with another yarn for a colourwork hat.” I have already emailed Josephine and I’m waiting to hear back as to which of the two colourway she is going to chose.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that this upcoming year is a happy and properous one for you and yours with lots of yarny goodness in it. 2013 was another year of growth for me with regards to Yvieknits Yarns. I hosted my first open house for Yvieknits Yarns at my house on Saturday, February 9th to celebrate the first anniversary of my website. Everyone who attended seemed to have a great time and several expressed the hope that I would have...

I gave a few knitted gifts and one knitting related gift this Christmas. I am still working on a few other knitted gifts which luckily for me have a later deadline. I knitted a neckwarmer for each of my friend’s two little girls using 1 skein of my Merino Sport yarn in the Springtime Lilacs colourways. I used the Neck Warmer pattern by Brenda Zuk with a couple of modifications. I only cast on 100 sts instead of 120 sts since I was...

Last Wednesday (Dec 11th), I went downtown Ottawa to meet a friend for lunch and to do a little bit of Christmas shopping. While I was downtown, I stopped by Yarns etc to take some pictures of the store since I had forgotten to do that when I was there before. Yarns etc sells quite a bit of locally dyed yarn (Yvieknits Yarns, Turtlepurl Yarns and Riverside Studios yarns). The local yarns are currently displayed on the table in the middle of the...

Yarns etc in downtown Ottawa is now carry my yarns. I delivered 64 skeins to the store yesterday afternoon. Seema, the owner, told me that she planned to put my yarn on the table in the front window last night and they would be available for sale starting this morning. There is a selection of the following 10 yarns at the store: Angel Select Lace, BFL/Silk Select Lace, Cash Sock, Merino Light Fingering, Merino/Silk DK, Merino/Silk Fingering,...

A couple of weeks ago, I finished knitting and mailed off the birthday presents for my friend, Barb and her eldest daughter. I made the Mountain Path Socks for Barb using 1 skein of my Merino Single Ply Fingering yarn in the Marmalade colourway. I knit the first sock back in June when I was test knitting the pattern and then I put them aside while I moved on to more urgent projects. My friend, Barb, loves hand-knit socks so when I was deciding...

I’m currently very low in my stock as The Loop in Halifax just bought all of my Select Lace, my fingering weight yarns, and my new Merino/Silk DK. These 71 skeins are on their way to Halifax and they should arrive on Wednesday, October 30 or Thursday, October 31st. I will be dyeing all week and I plan to get some more stock up very soon. I’m expecting a yarn order this week and hopefully my second order will arrive the following...

September was my busiest and most successful month so far. I’m slowly catching up on things, like blogging, that I let slide during those crazy weeks. Shortly after sending off my first yarn order off to The Robbins’ Nest in Brighton, Ontario (previous blog post), Francine and I were vendors at the 2nd Annual Wolfe Island Fibre Fest on Saturday, September 14th. The festival was a two day event but as this was our first year...

This box with skeins of my Angel Select Lace, BFL/Silk Select Lace, Merino Light Fingering, Merino Single Ply Fingering and Sock yarn are on their way to the Robbins’ Nest in Brighton, ON. The box also contains copies of Natalie Servant Designs patterns and sets of stitch markers from Fancy That. The shipment should arrive on Friday, September 13, 2013 or Monday, September 14, 2013. The Robbins Nest is hosting a 2 day trunk show for...

The 2nd Annual Twist Fibre Festival was on August 24-25th this year. I shared a booth again with my friend Francine of Fancy That – Creations by Fancine and we were given the same booth as last year (#55 on the corner). This year’s event was much bigger than last year and it was very well attended even on Sunday. The weather even co-operated this year so that it was pleasantly warm instead of super hot like it was last year. We...

This shawl kit contains the Lavender Fields shawl pattern by Natalie Servant, 1 skein of Yvieknits Yarn BFL/Silk Select Lace in the Persian Violet colourway, and 1 silver shawl pin from Fancy That – Creations by Francine. The Lavender Fields shawl is a wavy-edged triangular shawl inspired by lavender fields and flowers. There is enough yardage in this skein of BFL/Silk Select Lace yarn to knit the large version of this shawl. BFL/Silk...

My friend Francine of Fancy That – Creations by Francine came over on Friday night to help me setup for my Open House. Francine has a gift of creating beautiful display as shown in the pictures below. She also bought over a selection of her shawl pins and stitch markers with her that were available for sale during the open house. My friend Natalie of Natalie Servant Designs let me have her binders full of her patterns available at my open...

Earlier in July, I spent several days at my friend’s cottage in Prince Edward County (I visited this cottage with my friend last September and blogged about it here) with my Mom and brother. We had a lovely but busy time at the cottage partly due to my brother’s car problems. I brought most of my yarn with me on the trip because I planned to make an appointment with the owner of Robbins’ Nest in Brighton, ON as it was about a...

My friend Natalie’s 4th annual Tour de France KAL (Knit Along) started today. It is run out of her ravelry group Natalie Servant Designs. This year’s shawl pattern is the Père Lachaise Shawl and she talks about her inspiration for this pattern in this blog post. Natalie posted pictures of the different versions she knit of this shawl in this blog post. Natalie knit the small fingering weight version using one skein of my Cash Sock...

Mimi, the owner of The Loop hosted a trunk show for Yvieknits Yarns at her store yesterday afternoon. I arrived at the store just before it opened in the morning and we spent the morning setting up for the show. I brought almost hundred skeins of yarn, 4 shawl kits and lots of knitted samples with me so there was lots to do. My yarn was displayed in three spots in the store. The basket on the end of the big table (picture top left) contained...

I’m in Halifax visiting my friend B. and her family at the moment. I arrived in Halifax very late on Thursday night since my flight was more than 3 hours late. Long story. Usually when I visit, we (B. and another friend) go for a girls day trip out to the Valley (Wolfville area) which we did today. We have a set plan of stops developed over the years. The first stop is the Wolfville Farmers Market, then to Gaspereau Valley Fibres which a...

Kari Verge, who co-hosts the TwoTangledSkein podcast, released the Mountain Path Socks last Sunday. She designed these socks using a skein of my sock yarn in the Mountain Top At Dusk colourway (shown on pattern page) that I had donated to the podcast to review last fall. This is the first relased pattern that was designed using a skein of my yarn. I volunteered to test knit this pattern for Kari. I decided to test out both the medium and large...

Colour Emerald Isles colourway is a mix of different shades of green and blue. Yarn Details Sparkly Sock is a 2-ply fingering weight yarn 75% super wash merino/20% nylon/5% Stellina soft with great stitch definition and a subtle gold glitter 100 g and 400 m (440 yards)     There are two skeins available in this dye batch. $45.00 Cdn             project ideas This yarn is excellent for socks, hats, gloves,...

Colour Blackberry is a mix of various shades of purple, dark blue and black. Yarn Details Merino/Silk Fingering is a 4-ply yarn 50% superwash merino and 50% silk soft with a lovely shine to the yarn 100 g and 400 m (438 yards)   There are 2 skeins in this dye batch. $39.00 Cdn         project ideas This yarn is excellent for scarves, cowls, and shawls or anything that goes directly against the the...

Colour Hostas is a mixture of various shades of green ranging from a darker blue-green to a lighter yellow-green. Yarn Details 4-ply sock yarn 75% superwash merino and 25% nylon good basic sock yarn that is soft with the added strength of nylon great yardage for 100g skein 100g and 420 m (463 yards) machine washable There are 2 skeins in this dye batch. $34.00 Cdn               project ideas This yarn is...

This shawl kit contains the Lavender Fields shawl pattern by Natalie Servant, 1 skein of Yvieknits Yarn Merino Light Fingering in the Springtime Lilacs colourway, and 1 copper S-shaped shawl pin from Fancy That – Creations by Francine. The Lavender Fields shawl is a wavy-edged triangular shawl inspired by lavender fields and flowers. There is enough yardage in this skein of merino light fingering yarn to knit the large version of this...