A yarn a day - BC Garn Silkbloom Fino!

As promised over the weekend I am going to post about each of the new yarns this week - one each day...leaving room for a special announcement on Friday!

First up is the absolutely beautiful BC Garn Silkbloom Fino, suzy hausfrau is excited to be the first to bring this yarn to Australia.

BC Garn is a family run business in Denmark that was established in 1972. Their yarns are made from natural fibres and are considered to be a specialist in silk yarns in Europe. I knew that suzy hausfrau needed this yarn as soon as I saw it - but picking what colours was really, really hard. There are 25 colours in the full range, but I have just started with 9, and hope to grow the range as people become just as in love with it as I am.

Photos just don't do it justice, it has a shine and shimmer that is incredible!

So details are:

Weight: Fingering/4-ply

Unit: 50g

Yardage: 199 m/ 218 yds

Needle Size: 3-3.5 mm

Tension: 28 stitches to 10cm/4 in

Fibre: 55% merino wool/45% silk

Texture: Plied

MillaMia Rand Cushion - done!

This was a really quick knit, made from one of the MillaMia kits. I'll be stocking these kits closer to Christmas time. They are just beautiful, and the colour combinations are the perfect pop of colour for someone like me who only ever uses white bedding.

This morning's impromptu photo shoot was styled by Sophie...

Behind the scenes at suzy hausfrau

It's a busy Saturday behind the scenes here at suzy hausfrau! We loaded the NEW Danish stock into the store yesterday, but weren't really happy with the images provided. So we have spent a goodly portion of today re-shooting the yarn so that the colours on the site are more indicative of how they appear in real life....gawgeous of course. We are in the middle of uploading the new images now.

Lucky we had Mr Hausfrau's light box at the ready. Here is a behind the scenes look at our humble set up, which yields big results! Stay tuned for next week - when I'll do a yarn a day and show you how beautiful they really are!

My creative space.

I got up early this morning to block my latest project the Fia Hat from MillaMia's Wonderland book. This required making a toddler head out of a towel, which kind of seems to work...but I'd be glad for any tips on how to do this?

This is my first attempt at colour work, and I've got to say I'm loving myself sick over it!

More creative spaces over here...

Look look look!

Look what has arrived in the last hour! My first shipment of yarn from Denmark. I'm sooooo excited to be bringing these yarns to Australia for the first time! They are just beautiful, and the colours!!! I'll be working hard over the next couple of days to upload them to the shop.

This shipment includes BC Garn Silkbloom Fino (55% silk/45% merino 4ply), BC Garn Baby alpaca (100% alpaca 3 ply), Holst Garn Supersoft Wool (100% wool 4ply) and Holst Garn (75% wool/25% silk 4ply). There is some 8ply and 10 ply still on the way....yippee!

Orange jam!!?!

Home-made jam in our house is referred to by colour. Red jam - strawberry, Blue jam - blueberry, Green jam - kiwi fruit, Purple jam - blackberry (I know this one doesn't quite fit)...so when a friend gave me a bunch of her beautiful cumquats over the weekend I began to wonder whether I could 'sell' cumquat marmalade to the two widgets as 'orange jam'?

I'll let you know how I get on!

Logo

You may have noticed a wee change to the blog over the weekend. My logo - ta da!!!

We are still trying to load it on to the website for the store, and it should be live tomorrow.

My first thought is how much I love it, and then how 'grown up' I look. What do you think?