August's "Teaser"

Something in the refreshing colourway range this month! Since it's so hot out there, all I could think about was doing something a bit on the cooler side. Enjoy!

The base yarn is a new blending that should be lovely and hard-wearing for socks. Hope everyone's having a wonderful summer...it's been super hot here in Ontario! I am anxious for September to get here so cool breezes can make for woolly dreams. I know I sure do love handling wool more in the cooler weather than when it's super hot out there.

July's "Spoiler"

This month I branched out again to a two-colour semi-solid instead of the traditional one-colour semi-solid. This colourway should knit up in an interesting way as I dyed both colours onto the yarn using my semi-solid technique which I've tweaked to be able to use two colours. Very unique and should knit up a really interesting way - enjoy!

July's "Teaser"

Earthy is the word to describe this month's colourway and again, it's an experimentation in 2 colour semi-solids which I hope everyone will enjoy :) I am really pleased with how it turned out and may just knit up a skein myself. Woot! Enjoy everyone - the packages are in the mail today.

June's "Spoiler"

This month's yarn is a brand new style of semi-solid and uses 2 colours. It was a bit of an experiment but I really love the results and will do this again. The yarn looks variegated but it really isn't because both colours are applied using the semi-solid technique which means as this colourway is knit, the colours will knit semi-solid together. Hope everyone loves this one & enjoy!

Club Members Only

Seems I've been accumulating club yarns over the last few months and instead of hanging onto them I thought it might be fun to put them up for sale for anyone who would like to purchase another if one of the extras was one of your favourites.

If you are a current club member or a past club member, you're entitled to purchase these skeins if you like. If you aren't a current or past member, you're welcome to join here and then purchase an extra. Any questions, don't hesitate to email me at zenyarngarden AT yahoo DOT com.

For the current month's yarns, these will appear about 2-3 weeks after mailing so watch for those too if this month is one of your favourites.

June's "Teaser"

This month's colourway is a bit of an experiment in developing a contrasting 2-colour semi-solid! I've always been intrigued by "thinking outside the box" when it comes to colourways and instead of dyeing the traditional non-contrasting 1 colour semi-solid, I thought I'd experiment with a contrasting 2 colour semi-solid. Both colours were dyed onto the yarn using my 1 colour semi-solid technique which ended up producing a rather interesting result! Some yarns will have more of one colour and some more of the other. I'm really curious to see how these ones knit up. Enjoy!

May's "Spoiler"

This colourway was a unique one for me as I've never dyed a colourway like this before! I hope everyone likes it - it reminded me of lime wedges so alas, I named the colourway Lime Wedge...LOL! It's a subtle colourway with hints of green and yellow in it and should knit up in an interesting and soft way. Enjoy!

May's "Teaser"

A very refreshing colourway with hints of two colours in this semi-solid! I love playing with similar toned colours in semi-solids. Yum!

I used my 100% superwash merino this month that has a slightly tighter twist than our regular 100% superwash merino. It will yield nice stitch definition when knit with so I hope you like it! It is definitely squishy.

April's "Spoiler"

Inspired by wanting to do a bit of purple for this month, a overtone/undertone colourway was born. This one should knit up into an interesting semi-solid with overtones of purple and undertones of pink.  Enjoy!

April's "Teaser"

These were in the mail on the 15th and a lot of you have received your yarns already but nevertheless, I better post the teaser before the next delivery is here...LOL

This month's colourway was painted on 100% superwash merino that is oh-so-squishy! Enjoy!

March's "Spoiler"

Inspired by Spring and the sun starting to show itself a bit more often, this colourway was born with the hopes of it bringing a bit of cheer into the dreary days we've been having. Hope everyone enjoys it! I have visions of baby knitting for this colourway :-)

March's "Teaser" & Registrations Open!

This month's colourway is definitely inspired by Spring! It's a softer version of this colour and I hope everyone likes it. This colour is always hard to do as people either love it or hate it - there doesn't seem to be any in between with it...LOL  However, if you don't like socks with it, how about booties or a baby knit or something else entirely? Enjoy and Happy Spring!

Registrations are now open for another 3 and 6 month option beginning with April's shipment. If you are currently a member and are unsure if your term is expiring or not, please don't hesitate to email me to ask. Thank you everyone for your continuing support! Deadline to register is April 8, 2009 for April 15's shipment.

February's "Spoiler"

As you can probably guess, February is Valentine's month so I was totally inspired to do a colourway based on my two favourite things for this month - chocolate and roses. In making a semi-solid to incorporate both these colours, I tried out a new dyeing technique and am quite happy with the results achieved. This technique gives me the opportunity to do a semi-solid with more than one colour tone. Anxious to see how this one knits up for everyone...hope you are enjoying it! The colourway is called "Be Mine" and the base yarn is our Serenity sock yarn made of 80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere and 10% nylon. Roses & chocolate definitely have to go with cashmere :-)

February's "Teaser"

This month's colourway was a fun one! I got a chance to try out a new dyeing technique and I'm really pleased with the results. The colours I was inspired to do this month are themed on Valentine's Day and combine my favourites for this month - chocolate and roses. It does look like there are many colours in the skein from the teaser but they still are a semi-solid with a play on a few more colours than I usually do. Hope you like it! Everything mails today! :-)

January's "Spoiler"

It was quite fun doing the "teaser" for this month...I giggled the entire time considering the colourway is a grey tone and the teaser had to be grayscale to "mask" the colour a little...LOL I hope everyone is enjoying this month's yarn too - it's a nice true fingering weight that's 4 ply so it'll knit up nicely to make a sock that should be long wearing and hard wearing.

Enjoy!