Category: Dying Yarn
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I am so happy and humbled by the positive, enthusiastic response to the Blue Brick’s Ombré series. Inspired by the love, I’m happily dyeing away experiments for several more colours which I’ll be phasing in over the next few months. All of them will be dye-to-order, and all of them will be available on any base,…
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I saved the loudest one for last :) It’s crazy and bright, and I love it. Unapologetic pink, blending into bright yellow/green in a perfect echo of a gerber daisy. The colour deepens to a pinky purple right at the edges. Crazy daisy :) And there you have it, my three new springtime additions to…
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For weeks I’ve been sharing sneak peeks of my work in developing ombré yarns, and I am delighted to say that I’ve finally achieved a technique that suits my picky personality and allows me to get smooth, lovely, long-run colour changes into the yarn. This Friday, The Blue Brick’s Ombré line will hit our online store! Good…
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The March colour way, ‘Cove’ is available for purchase this weekend in our online store, starting tomorrow and ending on Sunday evening. Cove is dyed on our Killarney Sock base – 420 yards of sturdy-but-soft merino/nylon 80/20 blend. Cove is perfect for shawls, scarves and sweaters, with its muted, earthy tones, fitting for a month where…
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New colour way, to be added to this Fridays small Etsy update, ‘Sundown’. Which of us has never grabbed inspiration from a beautiful sunset view? I took this on our last vacation, over the ocean. There’s a little bit of all things sunset in here; purple, peachy tones, pinks and russets all together in one…
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Friday February 19th, at 11am EST there will be a small Etsy update featuring a few new yarns that I’ve been working on (hopefully some gradients too, but not making promises there yet!). These two are based off some photos I took during the Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián in beautiful Puerto Rico. The first…
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Exciting news – this month The Blue Brick has a new product arriving in our Etsy store, our very own hand painted gradient yarns! We’ve been working hard on test drives and refining to bring you the smoothest, most vibrant long-run colour gradients, which will be available soon on all of our bases, from worsted…
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Just a mood board to show where my head is at today, I’ve got a fresh shipment of yarn on the way, so look forward to an Etsy update mid-month =D
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The February club colour is finally ready, and it goes on sale at our Etsy site starting Friday morning January 29th :) Based on a photo I took in Ireland, ‘Forty Shades of Green’ (so named for a song Johnny Cash wrote after he traveled through Ireland) is a rich, tonal green with fabulous stitch…
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Starry Night is closed for ordering and all that yummy yarn is getting dyed up next week. Thank you to everyone for making my first club release such a success! The Starry Night pattern will be released on February 1st to Ravelry. Time to look at the next club colour way, and I’m starting to put…
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