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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 come pre-wound in balls ready for knitting except for full hanks of 200 yards or more.

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).

 

Monitors and perceptions of colors vary. Please email me if you are resolute on receiving specific tones that may not be exactly as you expect when seen in person. I OFFER EXCHANGES ON ALL KITS WITHIN 20 DAYS OF PURCHASE BUT NO REFUNDS unless materials are defective or I've made an error.

 

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Knit long and be happy!

 

 

 

 



BEACH HOUSE 2


  

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Beach House hues: driftwood, sand, seafoam, blue skies and blue seas. Are you ready yet? Here's all those hues in one yarnscape. The kit contains:

 

  • 90 yards Handmaiden pure silk boucle Rumple in beach blue
  • 95 yards Treesilk mulberry silk in sea blue
  • 35 yards sky blue hand-dyed silk ribbon
  • 85 yards Handmaiden Double Sea in foam blue
  • 110 yards Tili Tomas sequined silk (very subtle pearly sequins) in foam blue
  • 65 yards of an extinct but gorgeous tape in variegated driftwood/blue with sparkles
  • 1 print copy of Bloom
  • 1 PDF pattern of choice

Price: $170.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Indigo Moon 1


  

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On a spring evening, the moon can appear a soft, creamy yellow against a deep indigo sky. I love that setting and the colors that evoke it. Here is a full moon in sping. The kit includes:

  • 85 yards Double Sea Silk in variegated soft mauves, greens and yellow
  • 120 Doiuble Sea silk in lilac
  • 105 yards Blue Heron rayon in lilac
  • 95 yards Blue Heron rayon metallic in lilac
  • 50 yards Great Adirondack mohair
  • 50 yards Handmaiden pure silk boucle Rumple in variegated soft mauves, greens and yellow
  • 1 print copy of Bloom plus a PDF pattern of your choice (just email me):

 

 


Price: $150.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Indigo Moon 2


  

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On a spring evening, the moon can appear a soft, creamy yellow against a deep indigo sky. I love that setting and the colors that evoke it. Here is a full moon in sping. The kit includes:

  • 85 yards Double Sea Silk in variegated soft mauves, greens and yello
  • 120 Doiuble Sea silk in cream
  • 120 Double Sea Silk in lilac
  • 50 yards Blue Heron in lilac
  • 95 yards Blue Heron rayon metallic in lilac
  • 50 yards Filatura di Crosa Venezuia ribbon in all the above colors
  • 1 print copy of Bloom plus a PDF pattern of your choice (just email me):

 

 


Price: $160.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Fiesta Ole 1


  

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These are some of my favorite spring and summer colors. I even decorate my table in these hues, have Mexican plates the same colors and, if you haven't noticed, my new pattern, Bloom, is all about viva la color! So, here's a kit to capture a fiesta in yarns, this version in more coral tones. The kit includes:

  • 40 yards Great Adirondack mohair in coral, purple, green
  • 130 yards Interlacements rayon invariegated orange, coral and terracota
  • 95 yards Handmaiden Mulberry Silk in coral
  • 95 yards Handmaiden Mulberry Silk in coral/purple/hot pepper
  • 75 yards Interlacements cotton clouds in hot pepper, purple and fuschia
  • 55 yards Art Fibers tape in burnt orange
  • 1 print copy of Bloom and 1 PDF of your choice

Price: $140.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Fiesta Ole 2


  

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These are some of my favorite spring and summer colors. I even decorate my table in these hues, have Mexican plates the same colors and, if you haven't noticed, my new pattern Bloom, is all about viva la color! So, here's a kit to capture a fiesta in yarns. The kit includes:

  • 120 yards Double Sea Silk in turquoise
  • 100 yards Double Sea Silk in variegated fiesta hues
  • 95 yards Mulberry Silk in variegated fiesta hues (yello, turquoise, coral, lilac and orange)
  • 95 yards Mulberry Silk in coral
  • 50 yards Drops Fruti ribbon in fruit salad
  • 55 yards Art Fibers tape in burnt orange
  • 1 print copy of Bloom and 1 PDF of your choice

Price: $160.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

BLOOM Again Kit


  

 

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The colors of my Bloom wrap are captured here in this glorious color play. The kit includes:

 

  • 100 yards Handmaiden Mulberry Silk Tussah in turquoise/green
  • 120 yards Handmaiden Double Sea Silk in earthbrown
  • 70 yards La Lana Textured cotton boucle (now extinct)
  • 45 yards hand-dyed Peruvian cotton in spring green
  • 115 meters Firenze Italian rayon ribbon in coral
  • 70 yards LaLana cotton boucle in deep gold (now extinct)
  • 95 yards Handmaiden Mulberry Tussah in burnt orange/coral mix
  • 1 copy of the Bloom pattern

Price: $175.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Oriental Poppy


  

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Oriental poppies bloom in my garden in huge velvety cups of brilliant red but I hunger to own those lovely peachy ones I see abloom in others gardens, each one like a furl of silk in some distant land. This kit contains some rare beauties of the yarn kind. Check out the hand-dyed pure silk ribbon an extinct HandMaiden pure silk boucle. The kit contains:
65 yards of hand-dyed silk ribbon
75 yards Mango Moon raw silk
95 yards HandMaiden silk boucle (extinct)
150 yards HandMaiden Double Sea Silk in variegated peach/pink
95 yards Colinette Giotto
120 yards HandMaiden Double Sea silk in deep plum
1 copy of Bloom pattern or PDF pattern of choice 

Price: $180.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Tonga Wedding Kit


  

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These beaded bracelets from the Tonga tribe of the Zambezi valley are one of our treasured pieces. The Africans favor bright colors offset with back and white. Imagine the new Bloom pattern with bands of red, gold and white evoking African beadwork with the wrap's body worked in ccordinating hues. The kit contains:

80 yards Tilli Tomas beaded silk in deep red

120 yard HandMaiden double sea silk in rich gold

120 yards Double Sea Silk in variegated black, red, gold, grey and white,110 yards HandMaiden cotton/silk

95 yards Fleece Artist raw silk and wool

150 yards Mango Moon raw silk in black

1 copy of the Bloom pattern or pattern of choice


Price: $170.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Tribal Spring


  

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This color combination is so chic and striking, a little tribal, hinting of Masai bead work or tribal textiles. I have a wedding loin cloth from the Tonga tribe in the Zambezi valley with just these colors. Imagine making a wrap or vest and wearing it with black capris or neutral hues. That's my plan. The variegated yarn will form a tribal motif when knit so consider it for a border or maybe as the center for the bloom circles. The kit contains:

 

140 yards Cream Tussah silk

120 yards Hand Maiden variegated double sea silk

120 yards buttercup double sea silk

150 yards Collinette cotton in deep red

110 raw silk from Mango Moon in black

70 yard Crystal Palace Glam

1 copy of Blooms pattern or PDF of choice 


Price: $175.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Tropical Tides Wrap Kit


  

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Hello, spring calling. Are you getting the urge to knit something light and summery, something with the colors of sun and sand perfect for wearing with jeans or a white blouse? That's what I had in mind when I asked Handmaiden to hand-dye this collection of silk and designed a special sea-wash wrap based on the Inner Circles designs to complement the colors. And, then while in the Turks & Caicos island researching next year's Island Cadre, I found the seas were the exact shade! So, indulge. Plunge into a little warming knitting to keep your fingers nimble while spring comes calling. Each kit contains:

710 yards of silk, sufficient to make any Inner Circle design, including Peacock Furls, or even the vest:

120 yards Double SeaSilk in ocean green

120 yards Double SeaSilk in sky blue

120 yards Double SeaSilk in warm turquoise

100 yards Mulberry Silk Tussah variegated in all three shades

110 yards glossy creamy white silk for foam

140 wild tussah for the sand

1 print copy of Inner Circles plus a PDF of the wrap design emailed to you.:

 

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Price: $175.00

Quantity: (1 available)

 

 

Maori Blue 1


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 Blue and brown is such an evocative combination, like earth and sky. The combination reminds me of the Maori of New Zealand since they traditionally inlay paua shell into varved wooden statues.  Imagine Bloom in wood tones with 'inlays' of turquoise and blue. This collection captures that tribal mood with:

  • 120 yards Handmaiden Double Sea Silk in sky blue
  • 100 yards Handmaiden Double Sea Silk in deep teal
  • 100 yards Handmaiden Double Sea in turquoise
  • 100 yards Handmaiden Mulberry Tussah in deep sea
  • 120 yards Double Sea Silk in ivory
  • 95 Handmaiden Mulberry tussah in brown/pewter
  • 1 copy Bloom pattern

 

 


Price: $175.00

Quantity: (0 available)

 

 

 

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Recent Comments I am delighted to find that you also write. I've been following your knitting site and was so happy that your novel is about an angel in New Orleans, well, maybe not "about" an angel, but it's in the title, so... I've visited New Orleans several times (Just 3) visiting my brother when he lived there and we combed through the cemeteries. That's where I found the angel who was sobbing with her head covered in grief for the passing of her sister. It was so moving that I have the photo framed in our hall. She's beautiful. Couldn't wait to order your book! Thanks!

By BarbaraJean on 2013 05 17
From the entry 'The Writing Life'.

 

 

 

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