Purple Rainbow Yarns . Hand Dyed Yarns on Ravelry! :)

I have my yarns on Ravelry now!

Page (people): http://www.ravelry.com/people/PurpleRainbowYarn

Yarns Page: http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/brands/purple-rainbow-yarns---hand-dyed-yarns

Now my yarns can be linked to your projects :)

Last hand dyed yarn: OOAK Fine Lace Special Edition, 1200 meters of beautiful alpaca/merino/silk Fine Lace. Perfect for a luxury shawl, as an example:

Fine Lace Pure Mulberry Silk?

Good Afternoon :)

I am thinking about dyeing some fine lace yarns from pure Mulberry Silk...I don't use fine lace very much unless it's for a luxury shawl. Very fine yarn, but a real luxury for any woman.

Trying to think about which colors will bring out the best of this wonderful fiber...I love silk, but prefer to knit it mixed with some wool. Fine lace is a bit tricky to knit, maybe it's better for crochet?
All I know is that my last fine lace knitted purple shawl was just gorgeous! Don't have a picture of it but it is a pattern from Boo Knits (gorgeous shawls patterns!) you can see her patterns here:

http://www.ravelry.com/designers/boo-knits

The Shawl is named "Morticia", pattern on ravelry here:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/morticia

My silk yarns are skeins of 50gr and 500 meters each. Will trye to make the best of it :)

Have a nice Sunday :)

My Yarn Stash is Growing too much...and waiting for some inspiration...

Good Morning :)
Going to knit some more rows of my shawl and another old project I left for months...
My yarn stash is growing too much and no sales this month...January seams to be a bad month for yarn sales.
Also waiting for a "special" inspiration to dye some baby alpaca/silk yarn :)

This pile is probably 10% of my stash LoL :D

Trying to knit again...until something inspires me to dye more yarn...

Took back the "Cameo" shawl from Paulina Popiolek (you can find the pattern on Ravelry here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cameo-8 ) And it turns out that I had to frog half of it...again! I lost some stitches even if I'm still in the part where it's only knit stitches besides the kf/b and the picot. Thought last week, when I tryed to knit, that I was doing ok but...no, my brain tricked me :( So I'm back to the same stage again. And the shawl looks the same as last week...Can't wait to be able to finish this one and knit lacey shawls again :(

Slowly coming back to knitting....

As you may have noted, I have hand dyed much more than usual...
It  happened because I was unable to knit for medical reasons...
I started slowly with only knits stitches and took back my "Cameo" shawl from PaulinaP. You can find the pattern on Ravelry here:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cameo-8
I'm only in the beginning so it's just knits, kf/b and picot.
Not ready to get back to lacy shawls yet...and I don't think I will be able soon..Still having trouble to fix things in my head... :(
I'm using a beautiful semi solid brown BFL wool as first colour...the yarn is gorgeous to knit with. So soft and have a beautiful shine. BFL wools makes beautiful shades of browns, almost like if it had some silk in it :)