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For me, colour and texture rule and most of the inspiration feeding my imagination comes from the natural world. I see knitting as art, as viable as any other, and no matter what the tool or preferred palette, in human hands, magic happens.

Jane

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Welcome to my kit shopping page, perfect for yarn lovers and those who either have trouble combining colors or who just can't acquire such lovelies in their area.  Note that silk is my default position and that I regularly plunder the treasures at Fleece artist and HandMaiden, my local hand-dyeing maestros. However, I literally comb the world for interesting textures and lovely colors. my kits are special. 

However, once these kits are gone, they're gone, as I'm off to compiling another yarn gathering. Often I'll spot a unique hand-dyed yarn and then search out compatible mates in color and texture until I have enough for a kit. I call this yarnscaping. Since many of the yarns found are one-of-a-kind, they become nearly impossible to duplicate.

My gatherings of color and texture work perfectly with any multi-yarn project and most come in quantities suitable for vests, wraps or shrugs. Just by adding a base color, you can often extend these kits to cover most any project. All kits come with your PDF pattern of choice. Just select one from my pattern page and I'll send it to you in PDF form by email. All kits come in a clear plastic project bag.

Fiber Fixes are like kits gone lite. With less yardage and only three-to four balls of yarn, they provide tasty little samples where you can try extraordinary yarn for much less than you could manage otherwise. All Fiber Fixes come with a package of coordinating beads plus a print copy of my popular Breeze pattern. A bargain.

All kits are now coming pre-wound in balls ready for knitting.

A flat shipping rate of $15.00 applies for all US and Canadian orders. Because the packages are often crossing borders, they often get snagged at customs, making things slower than I'd like. Expect a delivery time of three weeks. If you'd prefer a guaranteed delivery of 1 week through UPS, just email me and I'll arrange it for an additional $10. Overseas customers, please email me and I'll give you a price (PS: I do supplement overseas shipping to make it more affordable).

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Knit long and be happy!

 

 




SNAP DRAGON SPRING KIT


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SNAP DRAGON SPRING

Any one weary of winter, of dark days and cold weather? Any one craving the sight of the first bloom pushing its way out of the earth? Well, this will be a year of the dragon spring, I thought I'd name it after thst harbringer of good fortune, a spring dragon. And, yes, she's snappy, as in quick and light-hearted. Here I've gathered crocus colors -- mostly purples, mauves, pinks and a touch of candied tangerine.  Perfect for a scarf, wrap or vest. The kit includes:

75 yards Tilli Tomas beaded silk in plum

35 yards of a variegated silk/wool in plum/tangerine/pink

95 yards Mulberry silk variegated in hues of plum/pink

65 yards of a Scottish wool boucle

75 yards variegated silk/wool blend in tangerine/plum

75 yards Mango Moon ribbon in plum

30 yards Great Adirondack Starlight gossamer mohair for blending with any of the above

PD pattern of choice


Price: $155.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

LAVENDAR SPICE KIT


  

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LAVANDER SPICE

 

Look very carefully at this kit and be amazed by the glory in this color combination if it had never seduced you before. Lilac and spice are perfect complements on the color wheel but all that scienticc stuff aside, just savor that warm spicy pink next to the blue-mauve cool of lilac and you'll know this is sublime. What's more, look at the textures in the Prism Stuff to the left which carries both colors in a mix of ribbons, silks, rayons, textury grasses and so much more. My new Tabbard pattern included shows you how and where to add this diva yarn amid all the silks and ribbons this kit contains. And see that Prism bubble yarn? That's a rarity as in difficult to source but a texture-lover's dream, again in a color Prism's Laura call's 'Spice'. The combination is perfect for so many of my designs but imagine it as a vest or tabard.

The kit includes:

85 yards Prism Stuff in Spice

25 yards Prism Bubbles in Spice

120 yards handMaiden/Fleece Artist silk in lilac

95 yards of HandMaiden's twisted silk/cotton (new yarn) in lilac

75 yars Mango Moo's ribbon in lilac/purple/blue

50 yards Fiestas cotton chenile in 'Rusty'

40 yards of Trensetter Dune mohair in purple/lilac

1 print copy of Sunset Bolero Vest or Tuscan Wall Tabbard, your choice


Price: $170.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

ADOBE WALL KIT 1


  

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Adobe Wall Kit

Southwest colors are earthy yet vibrant, rich with terracotta sunning itself next to turquoise. The main event in this kit is the 85 yards of Prism Stuff, an incredible mix of yarns tied end to end in a textural color feast perfect for this kind of knitting. Though its impossible to see one we wind them in balls, this yarn comes with ribbons, cotton boucles, sometimes lash, grass and even silk. The ball is in a shade called 'Terracotta' and serves as the lead yarn around which I've brought hand-dyed turquoise Blue Heron Egyptian cotton doubled,  turquoise double sea silk fro Hand Maiden, Hand Maiden silk bamboo in a variegated adobe/terracotta pink and tan hand-dyed coloring, HandMaiden Mulberry Silk tussah in deep red-peach-terracotta silk and Mango Moon's nubbly cotton in terracotta. Use this mix for either the Sunset Bolero Vest or the Tuscan Wall Tabbard or so many other possbilities. The kit contains:

85 yards Prism Stuff in Terracotta

115 yards Blue Heron hand-dyed cotton in turquoise

90 yards Hand Maiden Muberry Tussah in deep terracotta

105 yards variegated Hand Maiden silk bamboo in turquoise/adobe/tan

80 yards Mango moon cotton boucle in terracotta

125 yards HandMaiden silk in turquoise

1 print copy of Sunset Bolero Vest or Tuscan Wall Tabbard (please email me with preference)


Price: $165.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

Isabella Kit


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Isabella, a painting by John Melhuish Strudwick 1849-1937), is a lover of fiery hues that keep winter at bay and, like all ladies of a fine and singular taste, she wears garbs of silk and velvet with just a touch of luminous spring green in her jeweled girdle. Who wouldn't like to be her even for a moment? Yes, we might choose a better bra or perhaps ensure we wear one, period, but still.

Here I've gathered those hues in several kinds of Fleece Artist/Handmaiden silk including their new yartn called Ma\idenhair, a divine concoction of wavy silk and kit mohair. Feast  your eyes and fingers. The kit contains:

100 yards Swiss Spun Mulberry Tussah in ginger

125 Silk in goldenrod

80 Yards silk in crimson

110 yards Maidenhair in a soft blend of jewel tones

100 yards silk in spring green

100 yards of ginger silk mixed with kid mohair

109 yards of Anny blatt Victoria ribbon, perfect for mixing with any and all of the above 

700 yards all together plus 1 PDF pattern of choice. Branches and Dunes would be perfect for this as would Feather and Fan Organic wrap.


Price: $185.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

Renaissance Hues 1


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The Italian Renaissance features certain hues born of dyes available at the time -- woad, purples, softened greens. After spending many months in Italy, I fell in love with that blue partnered with that green, enriched with touches of purple. I accumulated wisps of silk and textiles capturing these hues for me. Here, resting on a silk scarf depicting a Renaissance painting, I picked a few yarns to capture the Renaissance mood. The Kit includes:

75 yards Mango Moon cotton/tacktel ribbon in blue

90 yards Tilli Tomas beaded silk in 'Tapestry'

85 yards Fleece Artist bambo in green

80 yards Tilli Tomas iris beaded silk in 'gloxinia' (deep plum)

85 yards Blue Heron rayon metalic and Egyptian cotton blended in 'kaiki'

30 yards Mango Moon ribbon in purple/green

1 print copy of Vining Branches pattern or PDF pattern of choice sent by email


Price: $175.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

FIBER FIX DRAGON SPRING


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Dragon Spring Fiber Fix

Into color longing? How about a blend of ginger gently slipping into ba spicy terracotta with the Dragon Spring fiber fix. Ribbons and two silks make this a lovely treat. The kit contains:

180 yards Ginger lace-weight silk

75 yards of ginger/green/terracotta variegated hand-dyed silk

20 yards Louisa Harding Sari ribbon in ginger & terracotta

A packet of amber, glass, pearl, jasper and a carnelia carved fish

1 Breeze pattern


Price: $75.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

FIBER FIX SEA CHANGE


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Sea Change Fiber Fix

Maybe you're longing for a cool stream of aqua and blue. here it comes in this lovely fiber fix with ribbon and variegated beauties. The kit contains:

75 yards Mango Moon ribbon

50 yards navy/blue textured rayon mix

80 yards Mango Moon rayon and cotton blend

A packet of beads containing glass and pearl beads

1 copy of the Breeze Pattern


Price: $65.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

FIBER FIX PURPLE HEART TWO


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Purple Heart Two Fiber Fix

To all you red lovers, here's a hot little number to wake up your stash: deep, fiery red and noble purple paired with filaments of orange. Not for the faint of heart but for a strong spirit. The kit contains:

75 yards of an Italian rayon blended with kid silk

40 yards of Fiesta's purple/red mohair mix

70 yards Mango Moon rayon/cotton blend

A package of cinnabar, pearl, glass and purple agate beads

1 Breeze pattern


Price: $65.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

FIBER FIX PURPLE HEART


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Purple Heart Fiber Fix

Craving a jolt of color? How about rich red silk married with two other high-color, high-texture, beauties and a package of beads besides? The Fix contains:

70 yards Mango Moon rayon/cotton twist in multi colors mixed with red

35 yards Great Adirondack Pixie in luminous red/blue/purple

75 yards Hand Maiden hand-dyed silk in henna red

a bead pack containing cinnabar, purple agate, pearl and glass beads

1 copy of the Breeze pattern


Price: $75.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 


 

 

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