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Delicious Crystal Palace Mini Mochi, Panda Cotton and Panda Silk are now listed on my site and available for pre-order.  Our order is going out in mid-September.

Here is a quick summary of each yarn.

Mini Mochi:

I have already raved about this one on my blog, but it really is wonderfully soft and so pretty to look at!  It is a fingering weight (4 ply) 80% wool, 20% nylon, slow self-striping yarn.  Mini Mochi is fab for socks but also great for baby items, scarves, shawls, accessories and fine garments.  There is also a Mochi Plus (worsted weight) and a Chunky Mochi listing on my website soon.

Panda Cotton:

Panda Cotton is also a fingering weight yarn (4 ply) – a blend of 59% bamboo – 25% cotton – 16% elastic nylon.

It is great for socks for the hot Aussie climate and also great for those allergic to or who dislike wool.  Vegans love it too!

Panda Silk:

Another fingering weight yarn – great for socks – the silk gives a lovely sheen and the bamboo lends lovely softness.  Also fab for baby layettes or baby items, oh and shawls!

52% bamboo
43% machine washable Merino wool
5% combed silk
204 yds/50 gr.  7-8 sts/inch

This is what you can look forward to next month:

Machine-knitted panel in Mini Mochi from Crystal Palace. Mmmmm!!! Self-striping goodness!

As you may or may not be aware, American Yarns is very proud to be the first Australian stockist of Crystal Palace yarns!  Crystal Palace make some gorgeous yarns, but they are perhaps most famous for their Mini Mochi – 80% wool, 20% nylon, slow-striping fingering weight yarn.  They also make a Mochi Plus (10 ply) and Chunky Mochi (12 ply).  This yarn is soooooo soft!  And it just glides through my knitting machine!  I knitted this on my old Empisal KH680L and it just glided through the carriage like butter – such a pleasurable experience I am lost for words!  My customers love Noro but when I showed them the Mini Mochi sample, they just ooohhh and aaahhhed.

Think the striping pleasure of Kauni, but with the softness of Malabrigo and you have Mini Mochi!

I am going to turn this sample into a cushion cover – I only had two balls to play with – so if you’re in-store please come on in and ooohhhh and aaaahhh with us!

After the Charity Knit-In tomorrow, I will be listing Crystal Palace yarns on my site and taking pre-orders for the planned shipment in September.  So make sure you are subscribed to my newsletter to be informed when these yarns are listed and available for purchase.

Until next week then!  Oh and here’s another drool-worthy close-up…

This week, my contract knitter Maree has been very busy knitting some new goodies from the Araucania Nature Wool that I have in-store.  I am going to visit my sister in London in December so these will do double-duty!

Maree said the Araucania is sooo soft and very easy to knit.  I think she did a fabulous job!

Araucania Nature Wool - fingerless gloves

This was a freebie pattern from Ravelry.com.  But I have a couple of Araucania pattern books in-stock too.  They are just beautiful!

Lacy Scarf = Araucania Nature Wool

The scarf was also a freebie pattern from Rav!  Gotta love Rav!

Close-up of Lacy Scarf

It’s a bit hard to see in these pics but the subtle shading of the Nature Wool makes it very pretty!

Sugar ‘n Cream

As the weather slowly gets warmer, many of my customers get busy with summer knitting in cotton and cotton/blends.

This year, we will be again increasing our stash of Sugar ‘n Cream so I got my knitting teacher Sue to knit this cute summer tote from 3 balls of Sugar ‘n Cream in ‘Jewels’, to showcase the range in-store:

Knit shopping bag using three balls of Lily Sugar 'n Cream in 'Jewels'

The top and straps are knitted on 4mm needles and the body of the bag on 10mm needles.  A great project for summer and at a cost of just $12.90!  The pattern is a free leaflet available in-store or from the Sugar ‘n Cream website.

Abuelita Merino

We have some new colours arriving in the beautiful Abuelita Merino Lace and Worsted next week.  I am always raving about what a wonderful alternative it is to malabrigo, but a friend of mine who was in the shop the other day showed me a hat she had crocheted from the Merino Worsted and remarked how it was MUCH softer than malabrigo.

So if you’d like to try some or feel how soft it is, come into the shop and touch our knitted ‘Ishbel’ shawlette:

This was knitted in Abuelita Merino baby lace – in ‘Blue Stone’.  It only used 50g of yarn! (half a skein).

American Yarns is proud to announce that we are now stockists of Misti Alpaca and Crystal Palace yarns!

Misti Alpaca yarns are just gorgeous!  We are particularly loving the 100 % baby alpaca Hand Paint lace!

Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Lace - 100% laceweight alpaca

Crystal Palace offer a large variety of natural fibre yarns and fancy yarns.  They are best known for their wildly popular Cotton Chenille, Panda Silk and Mini Mochi yarns:

Crystal Palace - Cotton Chenille

Crystal Palace - Mini Mochi

Crystal Palace - Panda Silk

All of these yarns will soon be listed on our website as available for pre-order and I will send out an e-mail when you are able to place your order.

In the meantime, start planning your projects – here are some gorgeous patterns to inspire!:

Cotton Chenille Baby Blanket

Panda Silk Baby Bubbles Smock

Mini Mochi Rainbow Scarf

Panda Silk Rainbow Wings Shawl

Weekender Lace Wrap Stole

Jasmine Lace Fingerless Mitts - Mini Mochi

Mini Mochi Rainbow Hat

Mini Mochi Clapochet Shawl - crochet

Mini Mochi Flower Garden Shawl - crochet

Mini Mochi Shawlette

Mini mochi Fairisle Hat and Mittens

Mini Mochi Diagonal Blocks Crochet Scarf

My first auto-shipment from Lorna’s Laces arrived today!  In the parcel were their 5 new colours, some of which were in 100g skeins!

Fjord - pale ice blue semi-solid - 50g skeins

Patina - gingery bronze semi-solid, 100g skein

Robot Overlord - autumnal multi - 50g skeins

Unicorn Parade - bright and fun multi - 100g skeins

Turtle Rodeo - 100g skeins

Here are some links to patterns featuring Lorna’s Laces:

Black Dog designs One-hank socks (need 100g of Lorna’s Laces)

snowflake_lace_socks_in_lornas_laces

whisperlacesocks_using_lornas_laces

American Yarns is proud to announce that we are the first yarn store in Australia to carry Little Lotus yarns!  Thamara is the talented indie dyer behind her range of beautiful yarns.  From traditional sock yarn with nylon, to superwsh merino, worsted merino and pure silk lace, Thamara has a range of gorgeous colourways with a whimsical touch.  Here’s a pic of one of her colours:  limoncello

It’s a gorgeous semi-solid lemon yellow.

Thamara also does fibre.  Here’s another of her colourways:  coconut ice

You can buy Little Lotus online at her store, or in-store at American Yarns – Shop 3/265 Blaker Road, Grovely.

American Yarns is very proud to announce that we are new Australian stockists of Sweet Georgia hand-dyed yarns from Canada.

Felicia Lo is the talented designer behind Sweet Georgia.  She hand-dyes THE most gorgeous fibres and blends imaginable!  Her colourways come in a range of solids and multis and in a range of weights from 2 ply lace to worsted-weight yarns.

We are in the process of listing her yarns on our site and will be placing pre-orders in a week or so.  So if you’d like to get your hands on some of our first batch, follow the link to oodles of yarny goodness!

CashSilk Lace

Merino Silk Aran

Merino Silk DK

Merino Silk Lace

Silk Crush Sock

Silk Lamb Lace

Superwash Sock

Superwash Sport

Superwash Worsted

Tough Love Sock

Sweet Georgia yarns are just crying out for lace, baby item, scarves and fingerless gloves.  Check out Ravelry for some great free patterns – just search for ‘Sweet Georgia yarns”.

How cute are these kids’ sweater patterns!?

The Owl Sweater

They’re by the talented designer Gail Pfeifle at Roo Designs, and American Yarns is very proud to be introducing them to Australia!

Roo Designs is a range of intarsia sweaters with cute animal and toy designs for babies 6 months, to children 6 years.

Each pattern is $6.60 and they’re so sweet, you’ll want to knit them all!

Our stock is arriving in 2 weeks.  Until then, if you can’t wait, they are listed for pre-order on our site.

Happy Knitting!

Gabrielle

This dishcloth took me 1 hour, 45 minutes to crochet.  I crocheted it during some down time at the shop last week.  I used Sugar ‘n Cream cotton in hot blue and black from my stash.  The pattern was from the new book:  “2 Hour Dishcloths” by Annie’s Attic.

2-Hour Dishcloths - new from Annie's Attic - Crochet

It is available for pre-order in the shop, but I have some copies coming in a week or so.

2 hour crochet dishcloth done in Sugar 'n Cream cotton

We have copies of the mag in-store now – even before it’s listed on their website!

So new, we don’t even have pics yet!

But I can say it is full of adorable summer projects – lacy shawl, kids camping gear, toys, homewares, crocheted jewllery, summer garments and more…

Get your copy now!