All manner of new and shiny things!

Hello - over the last few days the Spinning Kits are online, plus new sock yarns, and oodles of new stitchmarkers.

Also, a Name That Yarn competition. Winner gets a skein of the still-nameleess yarn, plus a set of stitchmarkers.

Oodles of new sock yarns, and the cutest creatures ever

I've updated the site with lots and lots of new colours of sock yarn. This is one of them: Autumn Earth.

There's also a new range of Critter Kits made from our organic wool - cute and unusual creatures just waiting to be knitted up. Each kit comes with yarn, stuffing, and all the other little bits you need.

New sock colours, and some very cute stitchmarkers

We have two new shades of sock yarn available - Gothic is a deep navy and purple creation, and Heathertop is a combination of greens, browns and purple.

There are also new stitchmarkers - pretty glass hearts, lampwork beads, and my absolute favourite - tiny glass cats.

And you can get a limited edition sock yarn -Mountain Climber. All the proceeds from this yarn will go towards sponsoring our friend Ben, who's climbing Kilimanjaro at the end of February.

Socks!

We have new sock yarn - not our two-skeined creatures, but single skeins of 100grams. So far there are five new colourways, and a couple more in the pipeline. Plus a special limited edition one - more details about that later.

We also have a cute new bag kit, which comes with yarn, pattern, lining silk, and beads, and optional needles.

Spinning kits and other plans

I'm working on creating spinning kits, so you can dream up your own Curious Yarns. There'll be a hand-spindle, a nifty instruction booklet, some plain fibre to get started with, and lots of pretty hand-dyed and blended fibre for when you've gotten the hang of the twist.

Also, I'm putting together spinning inspiration packs. (I need to think of a better name for these - spinspiration sounds fantastic, but looks far too odd when written down.) They'll have a whole bunch of colour-coordinated fibres - dyed wool and silk tops, and some wool/silk blended batts - and also kid mohair locks, silk nepps, beads, threads, and sparkles.

The spinning sets should be ready to go in about a month - I'm still assembling all the required bits and bobs.

Over Christmas, I'll be dyeing up lots of new sock yarns - I have lots of pretty colours planned. And I'll hopefully also have time to make a start on the naturally dyed cotton yarn. If everything goes to plan, I'll have both of those available in early January.

Silks and socks

The new sock yarn has been named 'West' and is now for sale here, or as part of a sock kit here.

And the silk knitters gift sets are also available - they come with two skeins of silk yarn - enough for a scarf or bag - and a set of stitchmarkers, tucked inside one of our little jute project bags.

Scarf kits, and sock extravaganzas!

We have lovely toasty warm hat and scarf kits on sale now here - the pattern's very simple indeed, and combines knit and purl (and a bit of decreasing for the hat) to make a prettily textured set.

Sock extravaganza gift sets have appeared and are here - all the sock knitting in the universe, compressed into one nifty shoulder bag.

Either of these would make excellent Christmas presents for knitters, or for people you think *should* be knitting. Plus, later this week we'll have a silk knitting gift set, with some of our lovely silk yarn and a set of stitchmarkers, packaged in the same little project bags that the sock kits use right now.

*And* there's a new sock yarn colour, It's not online yet, so this is a sneak preview. I haven't quite decided on the name yet. I think it's very sunsettish (or as near to getting sunset colours as you can ever manage without being the sky), but yarn-naming suggestions would be very welcome. It's even brighter than this photograph lets on, and half vivid pinks, oranges and yellows, and half soft blues and purples.