Sunday, March 17, 2013

Too Little Time, Lots of New Developments!

I have obviously not checked in to the blog in a very long time...I promise to do better!  There are so many things going on ~ lots of new yarn that is exclusive to KJY.  A few months ago we converted our mechanical room into a dye studio!!  Yes.  That's right.  We have our own line of kettle dyed and hand painted yarns, with the appropriate label of Eweneek Yarns!  So far, we have two blends in fingering weight: Formidable: a superwash wool and nylon blend and Boo-Yah!: a superwash merino, bamboo and nylon blend.  Formidable has names such as Bridgekeeper, Holy Hand Grenade, French Soldier, Shrubbery, Elderberry...and Laura is taunting me into naming one Flesh Wound!  (Monty Python, anyone?)  Boo-Yah! has colorways called Storm, Glacier, Quicksilver, Maple Leaf and Spring Fling in the hand paints.  We've just come up with some semi solids that have yet to be named in beautiful blues, greens, browns and rust colorways.  Yum!

We also have Exquisite: a laceweight 50/50 silk and merino laceweight, and just received a new single ply superwash laceweight that is yet to be named.  The Exquisite is available in such colorways as Sea Glass, Storm, Kelp, Warm Sand, Abalone, Tidepool...do you see a theme developing??  In Aran weight, we are offering a single ply super soft wool we've named Malabarista with coffee themed names in honor of our Pacific NW coffee culture.  So far we have dyed Arabacia, Shade Grown, Mocha and Kona.  And just in this week: Treasure! That's the name we've given our beautiful silk and seacell laceweight, 700 yards of fabulous in each 2 oz. hank.  The colors are all going to be named after gemstones, and the first skeins are out of the dyepot and nearly ready to go.  I'm thinking Sapphire, Emerald, Pearl, Onyx, Topaz, Tanzanite...I think you get the idea :)

Here's a look at Boo-Yah! which is our superwash merino/bamboo/nylon blend in a fingering weight:
 
 
We are also in the middle of a major revamp of the website, so stay tuned for exciting developments in the very near future.  The new website will focus on our Eweneek Yarns and other exclusive items as well as Shepherd's Wool, great tools and our exclusive downloadable patterns.  I promise there will be more up to date blog posts, too.

Cheers,
Becky