However earlier this week the wait was finally over, and along with another huge order which I'll share next time, I received three beautiful new colours of Excelana 4ply which all look exactly like I had planned!
The yarns are currently still on cones so there is one final step in their production before they are ready for sale which is of course the balling and banding. We don't have our own balling machine - as yet! - so we have to take the yarn on a trip to nearby West Yorkshire to be wound off into 50 gram balls ready for selling. The yarn should be ready before the Unravel show in Farnham in late February, however there is a limited amount of the yarn so I hope to make it available for pre-order on the online shop early next week so that you can be sure of getting some. If you like them as much as you like Dark Mandarin they're not going to last very long that's for sure!
All three colours are only available in Excelana 4 ply for the forseeable future. They are the same composition as the existing Excelana, being 100% pure British wool, 70% Exmoor Blueface, 30% Bluefaced Leicester and each 50 gram ball has a meterage of 159 metres. These three colours will be available exclusively from my online shop due to the limited stock levels.
The first colour is Sweet Chestnut
On my ravelry forum this warm brown shade has been repeatedly asked for and I have been desperate for a rich brown in the range for a long time. It works perfectly with the other new colours in the range as well as the existing palette. I desperately 'need' the Lady's Jumper Cardigan from A Stitch in Time volume 2 in Sweet Chestnut.
The next is Damson Wine
This one took a lot of getting right. It is based on a shade I found on a 1930s shade card and manages to be vibrant yet soft at the same time, blending beautifully with the other colours. The Fair Isle twinset from A Stitch in Time combining the three new colours along with Dark Mandarin, Saharan Sand and Alabaster will create a wonderful autumnal outfit.
And finally, the one that I and so many of you have been waiting for,
Land Army Green.
I toyed with calling this so many other names but at the end of the day, it was the Land Army jumpers that inspired me to create this colour, so really their was no other name that would do. I plan to knit the Warm Jumper also from A Stitch in Time volume 2 in this colour at the earliest opportunity, as it will make a fabulous 'workwear' style jumper with my dungarees!
So which is your favourite? And what would you knit with them?
for now,
Ruby xx
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Damson Wine because it's the exact colour of our fabulous wild orchid. What would I knit? Fabulously wild jumpers of course. x
Beautiful colors. Would have to make something using all three
Lovely new colours! I am on a Fair Isle knitting binge, so was very excited to see these new colours. I'm thinking a hat would be just the thing, but then again, maybe a vest. Or both? :-)
Very pretty new colours.i am after a new cardigan so would use them for that.
Oooh, Damson Wine is definitely my favourite!
I have been thinking about knitting "a tailored twin set with cable panels" which is in Odhams' Complete Family Knitting Illustrated. My indecision on colour was over the instant I saw damson wine. Helen Gibson
Love all of them particularly the first one in the purple shade hmmmm
These colours are beautiful! Green is always my favourite colour and this shade is perfect, I'm not sure of the pattern yet though.
Funnily enough Warm Jumper was going to be my next project and I've chosen to knit it in Powdered Egg which I thought would be a lovely spring colour.
These colours are stunning!
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