October's "Spoiler"

Ah, here she is! A beautifully pink and girly colourway named "It's a Girl"! Quite fitting don't you think? :) I haven't done much of anything in the pink family and I thought this would be nice and cheery for the changing season. Hope everyone likes it! It's almost time for November's shipment!

October's "Teaser"

Here's this month's yarn in teaser format! I found a cool new feature to use which makes the colours look liquefied....pretty cool don't you think? This is definitely a nice girly colour that I hope everyone enjoys! I thought a nice pair of soft socks in this colour to wear to bed would be nice and would match maybe a pair of PJs! This yarn, with the cashmere in it, should be treated a little more softly than the regular wear sock yarns even with the nylon in it. I have visions of soft sockies to wear to bed for the upcoming cool weather! Enjoy everyone!

September's "Spoiler"

Wow, it's almost time for October's colourway so I thought I better post the spoiler for September! How's everyone doing? Hope you're having a great Fall season so far! I know I quite prefer this season just because it's much cooler for me when I'm dyeing the yarn and it's also turning to a season of colours that I just love! Enjoy! This colourway is called Beaujolais :)

September's "Teaser"

Here's the little sneak peek teaser of this month's colourway! I hope everyone likes it :) I decided to do something darker and more saturated because this base yarn definitely looks much nicer when it's darker. Hope everyone's doing well and yet another month going in the mail today! Enjoy everyone :)

Registrations Re-Opened for October/2008

I'm happy to re-open registrations for club memberships to start in October 2008 for 3 and 6 month terms. If you are currently a member and not sure when your current registration is ending, please don't hesitate to contact me by email at zenyarngarden [at] yahoo [dot] com and I'll be happy to look it up for you.

More details can be found in my store under "Yarn Clubs". Thanks everyone for your past support and future support - I am having a great time with this club!

Deadline to subscribe is October 7, 2008 for October 15, 2008's mailing.

August's "Spoiler"

It's already September! Can you believe that? I'm so glad - I'm looking forward to Fall and Winter because these seasons definitely are conducive to knitting or any of the fibre arts we enjoy! I've recently taken up spinning so I'm looking forward to more time to spin the wheel too. Yay!

Hope everyone's enjoying this base yarn choice for August - isn't it just totally squishy and soft? I love it! I hope you guys do too!

August's "Teaser"

I'm a bit early again this month which is just fine with me as I get to post a teaser photo a little early this time! This month a few suggested blue so I decided to go with it because I love blue as well and on my new yarn base of 80% superwash merino/20% bamboo it looks wonderful! I hope everyone enjoys this colourway this month and I don't know about you but I'm sure glad to see it's mid-August because the weather will be cooling soon and Fall will be around the corner! Summer is great but Fall is better for getting our knitting mojo back! Summer weather puts a damper on my dyeing mojo too so I'm happy to see it'll soon be cooling off and I can start dreaming about Fall colourways!

Everything mails on Friday or maybe even Thursday if I get the packages all together. Enjoy!

July's "Spoiler"

Hope everyone's enjoying their summer and this colourway! Have you started a project with it yet? Don't forget to post right here on the blog too if you want to! I know we all love Ravelry but it's also nice to see the blog filled out with member posts too. Don't be shy :)

July's "Teaser"

We're on track for this month's yarn to mail tomorrow and here's a little glimpse into the colourway! To give you further insight into the colours, I named this particular colourway "Honey Wheat". Why? Because it seems like that's all I see here in Ontario at the moment - farmers out gathering their wheat! I couldn't resist. I hope everyone enjoys!

Also a quick note about my dyeing for the new members. I use a particular technique when creating semi-solids which means there will be some variation from skein to skein with how light/dark each one is and also with how much of a tone each skein will have. So once the teaser is revealed and you think your skein is darker or lighter, don't worry - that was meant to happen! It's a by-product of the dyeing technique I use. My goal is to create yarns within the same tones which works out quite well each month and as an added bonus, everyone also gets a unique skein!

June's "Spoiler"

Wheee, another month finished and I am hoping everyone is enjoying the Bling yarn who ordered it and for those that didn't, I am hoping you are enjoying the Gemilicious Fingering from Louet! Has everyone realized that ravissant is actually French and means ravishing in English? I thought it would be kind of chic to give a blingy yarn a French name! Enjoy everyone!

June's "Teaser"

I am happy to say I'm a little ahead of schedule with this coming month's yarn so I have a teaser to show already! The Bling is coming along nicely and this teaser shows a bit of a hint but doesn't show some of the "undertone". You'll understand when you get the yarn...LOL A few variations came out of the same tone as well - some of them had the undertone predominant and some of them had the overtone predominant. Either way though the bling is quite blingy with these tones :) Enjoy everyone!

I will also post a teaser of the non-Bling yarn when it's ready to be photographed - DONE (on the left)! :)

Registrations Re-Opened for July/08

I'm happy to re-open registrations for club memberships to start in July 2008 for 3 and 6 month terms. If you are currently a member and not sure when your current registration is ending, please don't hesitate to contact me by email at zenyarngarden [at] yahoo [dot] com and I'll be happy to look it up for you.

More details can be found in my store under "Yarn Clubs". Thanks everyone for your past support and future support - I am having a great time with this club!

Deadline to subscribe is July 7, 2008 for July 15, 2008's mailing.

May's "Spoiler"

Oh gosh golly green....some love it, some hate it. I always have a heckuva time dyeing it because it is tricky to get a good tone and also tricky to get good saturation. I'm really pleased with how these turned out even though I had to dye them twice to get the colour I wanted...LOL Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes and I was glad I made the mailing date deadline given a bit of unforeseen circumstances :)

You may notice hints of gold or red in your skein - that's quite normal - it's from the colour pigments that make up green :) Enjoy everyone!

June's Bling Yarn :)

Hello everyone...I thought I'd post this here too as I'm not sure we're all on Rav - I think we are but better to be safe than sorry...LOL

One of our clubbers made a special request for Bling yarn for the month of June which I'm happy to accommodate - I was going to do a special extra something to add in with your packages in June but this way, we'll do the special yarn instead! This works great because my regular pattern writer is taking a bit of a holiday and isn't available for June. The picture with this post is a sample of the Bling yarn - in case you aren't familiar with it. It's got silver strands in it! Here's the stats on it:

YARN DETAILS:
63% Superwash Merino/20% Silk/15% Nylon/2% Silver
Approx. 420 yards
Suggested Needle: 1-3 (US)
Fingering Weight

As I said in Rav, I'm fine with sending non-Bling yarn too - please email me at zenyarngarden AT yahoo DOT com and I'll make sure to send you the regular yarn combos we originally started the club with - merino, merino/nylon or merino/bamboo/nylon all in fingering weight. I do realize some of you may not prefer the Bling yarn and that's just fine with me...it's just a little record-keeping to make sure you get what you like :)

As for colour, please let me know if you have a preference - we are leaning toward a darker chocolate/purple in Rav and if you visit my photo sets of the Bling yarn in Flickr (linked above) you will notice that the darker colours really set off the silver strands compared to the lighter shades.

Hope everyone's having a wonderful Spring - it will be summer soon! :)

May's "Teaser"

A little taste of this month's colour! I ended up with warmer tones and a few variations of them with this colour. I hope everyone likes it! It surely does remind me of Spring and all the colours that are becoming richer this time of the year.

This colour is always a tough one for me to do - not because it's not a good colour but because it's not one I do a lot of. I am envisioning men's socks with this colour or a nice scarf even. I'm sure you guys will find a great way to use it! Enjoy!