Summer yarn, winter yarn
Here we are at September 1st already. For those of you here in the northern hemisphere, I hope you had a fabulous sunny summer. And for those of you in the south, I hope you’ve had a wonderfully woolly winter!
My own summer has been busy but enjoyable. I’ve recently launched two new colourways (if you were at Fibre East at the beginning of summer, you would have seen them); one of them is pure summer and one is much more wintery. Both colourways happen to draw their inspiration from Australia. This was completely unplanned, but really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise as I’m finally going back to Aus for a visit at the end of the year, and so “back home” has been on my mind a great deal.
Two of my eagle-eyed readers were able to guess the inspiration location for my first new colourway:
Named Freycinet, this colour is based on photos that I took during my last visit to Wineglass Bay, in the Freycinet National Park in Tasmania. The East Coast of Tasmania was my camping holiday destination as a teenager, and I went back a few years ago. Wineglass Bay is one of those amazing places that really does look picture-postcard perfect, and is well worth a short hike to get there. This colour turned out exactly as I’d imagined from the very first skein, and I’m completely in love with it.
The second new colourway is completely different, and involves a quick hop across Bass Strait to the wonderful city of Melbourne. It’s a city where famously everyone wears black (I’m sure that’s part of the reason why it suited me so well) and is the inspiration for Laneway City, a neutral dark grey to black colourway. It’s perfect whether you want some cosy black socks, or for pairing with jewel tones in a stripey shawl.
Both colours are available online now.
I hope you enjoy a little taste of Aussie inspiration.