What are we knitting? Part 2

Continuing our series of posts about what we’ve been knitting, this time it’s Les’ turn to share her project!  

So Les, what have you been knitting?  

I’m knitting a jumper with cabled sleeves for my Mum from the Sirdar Giselle pattern 9892 using Louisa Harding Mila.  I decided to substitute Louisa Harding Mila because it was more to my Mum’s taste than the Giselle yarn.  She prefers a solid coloured yarn to a self striping yarn like Giselle, but Mila still has a bit of sparkle to keep it interesting!

Even though Mila is an Aran weight yarn, because it has a chainette construction it knits up into a nice, soft, lightweight fabric and goes quite a long way.  It gives brilliant stitch definition over the cable pattern too, I think that being a solid colour it shows the pattern better than the recommended yarn.

It’s such a shame that Louisa Harding Mila is discontinued, (we do still have quite a good selection of it in our sale section, but when it’s gone, it’s gone) as it knits up really nicely for a variety of uses.  Last year I made some fab Christmas decorations in the red (#11/Cracker) and white (#01/White) shades!

I changed the pattern a bit, I’m knitting the body in the round to the armholes as I thought it would be neater without a seam.  I’ve had to make the sleeves shorter to fit my Mum, so because I’m knitting fewer rows I’ve worked increases every 8th row instead of every 10th row so I can fit them all in.

The yarn is nice to work with and it grows quite quickly so it’s quite relaxing to work on.  I’m enjoying the cabling most of all because it sits so nicely.  I’ve just got one more sleeve to do and once I’ve sewn them in that’s it!

Thanks for telling us about your project Les, it’s looking great!

Happy Knitting! 🙂

 

Just arrived: Louisa Harding Azalea

We’ve just had some beautiful yarns delivered from Louisa Harding, the first of which is Azalea.

A DK weight cotton available in 100g balls, Azalea is printed with speckles of colour to give a pretty and feminine effect which is still subtle enough not to overpower delicate lace stitches, such as those used in the beautiful patterns in Louisa’s accompanying pattern book.

Showcasing Louisa’s trademark unashamedly feminine style, the Azalea book contains patterns for both garments and accessories from the lace wrap on the cover, to this wearable cardigan with lace patterned sleeves, perfect as an extra layer as the seasons change. 

Our other favourites from the Azalea book include this pretty cowl which takes just one ball and would make a lovely gift:

…..This leaf lace yoked sweater:

….and this lacy angel sleeved top:

Azalea is available in twelve pretty shades from pastels to brights:

We can’t choose a favourite!  Which is yours?

Happy Knitting!

Christmas ideas with Louisa Harding Mila!

We just had to show you this fab idea for using Louisa Harding Mila….

…… Christmas decorations!

Les who works with us here at Stash has crocheted a fab little selection using shades #11/Cracker, #01/White and #07/Herb.

There are quite a few pastel shades and brights as well, if you prefer an icy or vibrant Christmas colour scheme to traditional red, white and green.

And if you buy three balls or more, you can get the Louisa Harding Mila Book free!

Happy Knitting (and crocheting)!

New in: Sirdar Autumn/Winter yarns and patterns!

It’s been a busy time for us here at Stash Fine Yarns over the past few weeks, as all the new yarns and patterns for Autumn/Winter 2014/15 arrive.  Every day there seems to be something new and exciting delivered!

The latest new arrivals are from Sirdar.

We have brand new yarns, with books and single patterns to go with them too:

Sirdar Divine, a beautiful self striping DK weight yarn with a mohair style look, made from soft Polyester and Acrylic, perfect if you love the look of mohair yarns, but find you cannot wear them next to your skin.

There are patterns for women and girls in the accompanying book, Divine, and single sheet patterns are available here.

Sirdar Wool Rich Aran is a classic wool blend yarn available in traditional and fashion shades, perfect for cosy cabled sweaters and accessories:

Patterns can be found in the Wool Rich Aran book and single patterns are available too.

You can find them here.

Last but not least we have two really fun yarns,

Head Start:

… and Heads Up:

These yarn kits would be great for making or giving as gifts and contain everything you need to make an on trend bobble hat, including pattern (printed on the label) and coordinating furry pom-pom!  They’re really quick to make too.

What’s your favourite?

Happy Knitting!

Santa’s Special 20% off sale!

We wanted to give our lovely customers an early Christmas present, so here it is!

Spend £20 (excluding VAT) and get 20% off your entire order!

We’ve also got some exciting new stock in our sale section:

Araucania Budi is a snuggly chunky weight yarn perfect for keeping you cosy in the winter months:

… but be quick, our stocks of this yarn are very limited and once it’s gone, it’s gone!

We’ve also got a great offer on Noro Kama:

This is a really gorgeously soft chunky weight yarn, with slightly more subtle colour changes than some of the other yarns in the Noro range, and would make really lovely accessories (just imagine a couple of balls of this knitted up into a cowl… mmm…..) and there’s 30% off while stocks last, but again, don’t wait too long, because once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Happy Knitting!

Happy Holidays!

Hi everybody! We hope you have all had a wonderfully festive Christmas and are now preparing for the exciting New Year! December has been a very busy month for us, so to keep you in the loop, here is what we have been getting up to…

We have had brand new lines in from Fyberspates – Gleem Lace and Vivacious 4Ply & DK. They are beautiful luxury hand dyed yarns, both available in 12 shades, all 100g balls. We are very excited about this product and are the first stockists to receive any of it before Christmas and even the New year! The Vivacious is 100% Superwash Merino Wool and Gleem 55% Superwash Blue Faced Leicester Wool and 45% Silk.

These are the shades and weights. The colours really are beautiful.

We have also had in 3 NEW colours of Fyberspates Faery Wings, take a look they are equally as lovely as the others!

We have had some wonderful samples brought into us from the book ‘Cute Little Knits’ By Jem Weston.

We have had more magazines in stock :

                   

Click images for more information.

Here are a few snap shots of our knit group from over the Christmas period. Enjoying knitting, chatting, snacking and more!

                        

         

We thank our knit group for our Christmas gift off you all!

For everybody, enjoy the rest of your holidays & from all of us here at Stash, have a wonderful & happy new year!

To end the week we have a Xmas Week Sale on.

Spend £15 (excluding VAT) and receive 15% off everything!
Available NOW at www.stashfineyarns.com
Offer ends Monday 31st December

 

 

Busy, busy, busy

Yet again another busy week for us here at Stash with lots of new arrivals constantly coming in. So an update of the week..

After being told we should get this in as everybody was wanting it, we got it in. It’s Circulo Tecido Trico. Circulo Tecido Trico puts a whole new spin on ruffle yarns. This fabric base has holes on one side similar to rail-road style ruffle yarns. A pattern for a ruffle scarf is included on the label and shows you how to knit into the holes for a unique ruffle look. I immediately liked the prints (the leopard being my favourite!) I thought how is this going to work out? How is it possible to knit with ribbons? But after Helen (The Boss) came in with one that she had started to knit up I was amazed! It has been selling as we were told it would and it looks wonderful! Rather than me telling you here is her sample, see for yourselves..

It is available in 22 different prints and if you look closer there are 6 free patterns available for this ribbon yarn. Here are just some of them that we have in stock at the moment. Click here to see the free downloadable patterns.

We have had in some great books, great ideas and great little monsters in Janet Smith Can’t Knit by Suzie Johnson, The Glamour Collection is also beautiful as expected, it has some fabulous designs in especially coming up to Christmas! Follow the links on our website to view all the designs inside these fabulous books.

We have a new Swift and Ball Winder in stock, these again are great ideas for Christmas presents!

Our lovely bosses, Helen and Steve have had fun this week amongst the busyness. They got to grab a sneak peek at all the new Spring Summer 2013 yarns, Patons, SMC, SMC Select, Debbie Bliss, Rowan, Louisa Harding, Arauc… and plenty more! Oooo exciting! Can you believe winter is just beginning and they are already choosing next seasons yarns?

Well anyway enough dreaming now, we had our knit group again this Wednesday as we do every week (Wednesday 10.30 – 12.30), some of our loyal knitters and knatteres had knitted a small square each to put together as a beautiful baby blanket for one of the other ladies. So to end this weeks post, here is our group with their baby blanket.

I hope you all had a great Halloween and have fun on Bonfire night, remember remember the 5th of November!

New Books!

 We’ve finally had our delivery of the much sought after Debbie Bliss Autumn/Winter 2012 Knitting Magazine (Issue 9) and Mirasol Book 29 Api Hasa!

NOW IN STOCK and both available for purchase

For a sneak peak at the beautiful patterns inside Mirasol Book 29 look here –

  

Dinosaurs vs Aliens

Love walking past these fabulous critters everyday in the shop, they make just about everybody smile! (Everybody apart from the scaredy cats!) Rarrr

To see more Aliens click here and for more Dinosaurs click here

To buy either Alien or Dinosaur books click here.

New in!

NEW IN ~ we’ve had some new styles of buttons in thanks to Big World Buttons, orange is the new colour for the season and is even showing itself within buttons! ~ LOVE them! ~ available to purchase on our website NOW