New Felici Colors for Summer!

I’m so excited to show you our newest batch of Felici striped colorways!

Skeins of all ten new Felici colors, lined up in a long row

I have a personal reason that I’m especially excited about this release: I designed a bunch of them! I started here as a graphic designer last fall, and since then I’ve gotten the extremely awesome chance to help design yarn colors a few times so far, this batch being one of my first! I didn’t create all of these, but most of the especially colorful ones are by me … I tend to have the color taste of an artistic five year old. So if you happen to love this group of new colors, yay I’m so glad! And if not, sorry, I’ll try to tone it down a little next time. 😉

Skeins of all ten new Felici colors, arranged in a circle

My favorite thing about this release is that there are not one, not two, but THREE full rainbow colorways! A rainbow for everyone! So we ask you: are you a Pinwheel, a Punky, or a Cloudy with a Chance of Rainbows? (That’s left to right on the image below.) I’m biased so I love them all, but if I had to choose just one, I think I’m a Pinwheel most days.

The three new Felici rainbow colors: Pinwheel, Punky, and Cloudy with a Chance of Rainbows

Besides the rainbows, we tried to think outside the box a bit and come up with some colorways that are pretty different from previous Felici skeins. That gets hard to do after awhile, but I think we came up with some pretty interesting options for you!

Swatches of six new Felici colorways (top row: Sally, Coffee Break, Playhouse; bottom row: Chelsea, Ribbit, Auggie)

As a knitter who almost never makes anything in fingering weight, I plan to try using these in ways that work for me: holding two of the same colorway together, trying to keep the stripes as matched as possible, to turn the yarn into a light-worsted-ish weight; and/or holding one strand together with a solid yarn, in a white or other neutral shade, to make a marled self-striping look! That way I will actually use Felici skeins instead of just letting them look pretty on my yarn shelf.

Small swatch of Felici (Pinwheel colorway) held double with Stroll Glimmer in White, on Size US 7 needles

Above is a quick little swatch I knit up using Pinwheel held together with Stroll Glimmer in White, on size US 7 needles, for a gauge of approximately 5 stitches/inch, so a pretty standard worsted weight gauge. If you tried to make an effort to twist the strands around each other a bit as you knit, you could make it look more marled, like as if they were plied with each other instead of just held together. Maybe I’ll make a sweater like this!

Skeins of all ten new Felici colors, with color labels

What’s your favorite new colorway? What are you going to make with it? Socks are the obvious choice, of course, but there are so many fun striping things to be made! I’d love to see a Felici cardigan, hats, mittens, cowls … I can’t wait to see your creations! Be sure to tag us on instagram so we don’t miss them!


6 comments

  1. Heather Mann / June 27, 2019

    @rin Check out this EXCELLENT color suggestion thread (with TONS of photos) over on Ravelry to help you choose the perfect companion for your Felici.

    And good news — Cloudy is back in stock (for the moment!)

  2. Rin / June 17, 2019

    Aaaaaaargh, didn’t these JUST come out? How is Cloudy with a Chance of Rainbows already out of stock?

    If it comes back,how do you think it would do held with a dark blue, mid or dark gray, or black? If not so much with the darks, I might try it with cream or possibly a silver-gray… I suppose I should check first, does the held with solid for a marled look work fine for crochet as well as knitting?

  3. Meredith MC / June 15, 2019

    Pinwheel and Sally are calling my name. Love the brights!

  4. Joy Presley / June 14, 2019

    Grape Gatsby and Coffee Break are my picks

  5. Andreanne / June 14, 2019

    I absolutely love these new colorways. I like big contrasts in self-striping, and Sally is now (one of) my absolute favourite! I like Punky and Cloudy a lot too, but Sally really struck me.

    Thanks for these!

  6. Kaniger / June 14, 2019

    I am a long time felici fan and this is my favorite release in a very long time! Nicely done!!! ❤️