Launch of New Sequin Yarns

New Lace Sequin Yarns

We have something super special for you. Our two new sequinned yarns are two fluffy bases with sequins stranded onto a carrier with wool, silk and just a touch of iridescent shimmer in it. The sequins reflect the colours of the yarn around them, so they always match your dyeing.

We wanted a subtle and sophisticated look to these yarns appealing to a wide audience who want to add just a touch of something magical to their yarns without it being overpowering.

These sequins are specially made to withstand the dyeing process, so can withstand heat and acid conditions, unlike most other sequin products. This makes these yarns special and unique .

We love these knitted on their own, or used as a carrier with another yarn.

The Alpaca 49061 provides a warm and cosy fabric, where as the mohair 49062 creates a more open fabric with a gently haze.

Introducing Sequin Fluff 49061

64% Baby Alpaca

3% 19.5 mincron Merino Wool

10% Sequins / Shimmer

23% Silk

300m per 50g

Gauge: 3.75mm - 24sts & 32 rows to 10cm

This compliments our sure silk cloud range, with the addition of the sequins. This sucks up the dye and produces lovely watercolour effects. Speckles will spread on this yarn. The sequins reflect the colour underneath providing gently twinkles in the fabric when knitted. The fabric is soft, floaty and warm.

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Sequin Fluff 49061

Introducing Kid Silk Sequin 49062

An exquisitely soft yarn with little twinkles of sparkle from the sequins.

This yarn is just a twinkly luxury. The yarn takes the dye well and lovely water colour blends work well on this yarn. Dye as you would a standard silk mohair yarn. When knitted blocks beautifully and creates a floaty sparkly fabric which has an exquisite softness. This is very special and we love it.

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Kid Silk Sequin 49062

New Andean hand spun yarns!!

Our newest yarns have just arrived and this time we have something quite different from our other ranges, two beautiful hand spun yarns! 

Meet Marshmallow Hand Spun: 

...and Spira Hand Spun:

Spira Hand Spun Mid Grey

Spira Hand Spun Fawn

Spira Hand Spun White

We are really excited about these two new yarns, hand spun in the highland communities of Puno, the main Alpaca producing region of Peru. 

The women living in communities of Alpaca shepherds have a long history of traditional textile skills going back generations including hand spinning, which the program helps to preserve.  

Combining their skills with modern yarn designs has created these beautiful hand spun yarns which are not only wonderful to dye and knit with but also provide these small highland communities with more trade, enabling them to maintain their way of life as it has been for generations.  By supporting this program we are helping to keep their skills alive and also the mountain villages themselves, where sheep and alpaca have been farmed for centuries, keeping families together by giving them the opportunity to earn money without having to move away from rural areas.  

So, I guess you'd like to know a bit more about the yarns? 

Marshmallow Hand Spun is a beautifully soft single ply super chunky yarn spun from 100% super fine alpaca, with approx. 40m per 100g skein, this yarn is lovely and squishy, perfect for cosy accessories!  We can't stop petting this skein, it's so soft!  

Spira Hand Spun is a single ply yarn with a wonderful texture, a little thinner than Marshmallow Hand Spun, with 50m per 100g skein.  A mix of super fine alpaca and Peruvian Highland wool, this yarn has a very subtle variations in colour when dyed thanks to the way the two types of fibre take up the dye differently.  We've got in three lovely shades for you to choose from in this yarn too!  Two of the shades use white wool together with a different natural shade of alpaca fibre, and the third uses natural white:

Three gorgeous natural shades in our new Spira Hand Spun

Clockwise from top: Mid grey, white and fawn

We were so excited to see how these yarn dyed up and we've not been disappointed! 

Here's how they dyed up!  

Clockwise from top left: Mid grey, fawn, white

We particularly love the way the mid grey yarn dyes, it would be absolutely stunning dyed with jewel colours like teal, sapphire blue, purple or ruby (too many ideas and not enough time!).  Grey yarns give a wonderful depth of colour when dyed, so don't be scared of trying them.