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I am one of the photographers here at KnitPicks and
since I
have started working here I have been verrrry slowly learning how to
knit. When
I heard about the dye along I thought great! an excuse to not only pick
up my
needles again but I can try out a new craft, dyeing. I have only
tie-dyed so I really
had no idea what I was doing. After a couple of talks with the girls
around
here and reading through the very helpful book Natural Dyeing I decided
to try
my hand at some plant dyeing. My goal was to use only plants/flowers
that I
gathered from around my house but the loooong rainy May we have been
having
nixed that idea.

I have been toting a project, either lace or socks, constantly – daily – in a GoKnit Pouch since September. I kept having trouble with my small sock needles poking through my other little knitting bags, but not with the GoKnit Pouch. This thing is sturdy! And it keeps my knitting clean and protected, and is just the right size for stuffing into my purse if I need to. The Pouch sits neatly and unobtrusively on the floor beside me too; I pull the drawstring tight so the balls of yarn stay trapped inside the Pouch instead of rolling around while I’m knitting.

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I knit this sheep hat for Katie’s baby (due February 22!). I was inspired by Jennifer Little’s adorable Sheep Yoke Cardigan that I saw on Ravelry, but I figured a newborn would be more likely to wear a hat, and by the time the baby would be big enough for a cardigan it would be summer. I used Jennifer’s sheet chart and applied it to a basic newborn hat size (the free pattern is in the sidebar of my Indigomouse blog).
As for the yarn, I decided that rather than buy multiple balls of Swish DK and only use a small amount, I would use some Bare Superwash DK I had on hand and dye my colors. (I did use Swish DK in white for the sheep–don’t ask me why I thought bleached white wool was more “sheepy” than the actual sheep color of the …

Lately we’ve all been waiting anxiously for our sample balls of the new spring yarns to come in, as we have to knit swatches and photograph the yarn for the catalog. Yesterday we did get one box of yarn in that contained some new colors of Shadow, Gloss, and a few of the colors of the new line, Gloss Lace. I’m knitting two different lace swatches to help out, and I couldn’t resist taking some photos of the yarn to share with you as I was winding my yarn in preparation for knitting.

This color is called “Mermaid” and is my personal favorite in the Gloss Lace line. It is a stunning turquoise blue color, and the silk in the yarn just sparkles in an almost metallic way.

This color is called “Port” and is very hard to describe, as …