Every time I send yarn or fiber “out into the world,” I wonder what you will create with it. Sometimes I get to see, and it’s always a delight to see what became of my creations when they became your creations.

This week I have the privilege of sharing some projects made using Purple Lamb yarn and fiber that some of you have kindly shared with me. Hopefully these will give you an idea of how a few colorways and patterns work up and inspire a future project all your own.

This first one was made by Sue of woolnlove. She knitted it using my Starry Night colorway on Sparkly Merino Sock, and her fabulous husband is modeling it as usual. The pattern is Jennifer Tipton’s Confetti Scarf. Her pattern uses one skein of sock-weight yarn, and it is currently free. Starry Night was my March club colorway, and I have made it a couple times since then. It’s an extra complicated colorway that I don’t keep in stock all the time, but I’m going to open up another preorder for it right now because I know you will be inspired by Sue’s beautiful shawl.

This next shawl was made by Marion using my Telemachus colorway and the pattern Aragon by MMario Designs. This pattern is available for free as well. I love how differently the colors look in the lace section compared with the rest.

Caroline was kind enough to share the loveliest cat toys ever. She needle-felted them. When I asked her if they took long to make, here’s what she said: “They didn’t take too terribly long at all; I made about 20 or so in an evening. Maybe 5 to 10 minutes. Once the core was partially covered the wool felted smoothly like a dream. They have a scrap yarn & polyfil/catnip core. I’m crazy but not crazy enough to waste the beauty of your artful work, but my animals also deserve the finest!!”

Caroline used some of my hand-dyed merino top to make these.

Marion made this lovely shawl using my Annunciation Blue colorway on So Silky Sock. The name of the pattern is Beach Wrap by Haley Waxberg.

I love the variations in color, and didn’t Marion do a beautiful job both knitting and photographing this?

This next project uses the same colorway but a different yarn base. Cheryl wove this beautiful scarf using Annunciation Blue on Squoosh DK as the weft.

This next pattern includes just an accent of Monet on Sock Perfection. This is a work in progress that Katie is making using a combination of Caron yarn and my Monet colorway. I can’t wait to see it all finished!

Here is Marion’s triangular keyhole scarf made with my Sky Blue colorway on Sparkly Merino Sock. I’ve seen this one in person, and it’s lovely. Marion knits so beautifully, and I love this keyhole scarf pattern. It’s called Spritzen.

I’ll leave you with my own work in progress. I’m trying to do a few things at once here. I have put together Smitten on Dream Sock with a wonderful new fuzzy lace-weight yarn base I’m going to be dyeing up for the shop soon. It’s made of silk and suri alpaca. It’s very similar to the brushed mohair yarn that has become so popular recently, but it is infinitely better in my opinion because mohair–even the softest kid mohair–always seems to feel scratchy against one’s neck whereas this does not.

At the same time I decided to play with this yarn a bit, it occurred to me that I am probably not the only person who loses count and messes up patterns while trying to carry on a conversation at knitting group, so I decided to make a pattern with no counting involved that’s perfect for knitting on the go. This is going to be an infinity scarf where the same stitch happens throughout each entire round, so there’s no counting and no trying to figure out what to do next, but there’s a lot of variation between the rows to keep things interesting. Hopefully it will turn out well and I’ll be able to share it with you soon. I’m about halfway done now.

Here’s a closeup so you can see the fuzzy softness.

 

Happy fiber artistry!