Get Ready!

Fiona is busy dyeing away for the shoppe.

Here is a picture of what she has been doing.

( And I am working on getting her to spend a Saturday with us.)

It just keeps coming

 We received more Third Coast and Up North from Fiona.

    

Up North

Spring Woods II

Peach Melba

Slipping into Twilight

Cherry Blossoms on Silver

Flowering in Glen Arbor

Need a closer look?   

Then we have more Third Coast.

 

Cherry Popsickle

Vines & Wines

Winter Gloming

Blue Spruce

Foggy Day on Cathead Bay

Early Fall Dune Climb

Leelanau Lilac

 Loverly, loverly, loverly ( to take a phrase from My Fair Lady).

Fiona has done some tonals for us this time and they are beautiful.

Yarn Alert!

Fiona has mailed out more yarn. 




We should have it out by Thursday.


Edited on Thursday - um, maybe Friday?

We're so excited

We now have yarn exclusively hand-dyed in Michigan by Fiona McPherson Grant for Thistledown Shoppe.

 Third Coast, 100% Superwash Merino Wool, fingering weight.  1120 yds

Up North, 51% silk / 49% merino wool, fingering weight

and Lake Effect, 100% Tussah Silk, 1 ply.

The colorways are named after local flora and fauna and places located in our area.

Several of us are busily knitting models for the shoppe.

 I am using Lake Effect to make this scarf.   Susan is  knitting the Shetland Shorty and Betsy knitted a sock out of Third Coast.  Jill is knitting a lace scarf out of Up North.

Think one of a kind and exclusive.  Fiona has a wonderful reputation as an excellent hand dyer and she will be thrilling us with the results.
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Gaillardia

Gaillardia.   This is a flower and here are some pictures.

It is also the color name of one of our yarns.  I tried a picture, I really did, but my camera wants to change the coral and oranges to pinks.  So,  look at the colors above and think 100% Merino Superwash.  All 1120 yds of it.  One of a kind.