Big Update Today!

To purchase any of the below yarn, please send me an email at indigodragonfly.K AT gmail.com (replace AT with “@”, no spaces) indicating which yarn(s) you would like and whether you want it shipped surface or air mail.  First email request for each yarn/fibre secures it.  I will send you a paypal invoice for the full amount plus shipping and ship the packages off within 3-5 days.   Shipping charges to the US will start at  $5 for surface mail and $6.70 for air mail.  Canada Post doesn’t make shipping charges for Canadian or International packages easy, so I will send you a shipping quote for your order for your approval.

Best attempts are made to photograph colours accurately, however colours do differ from monitor to monitor (I’ve checked).  I’ve also described the colours…and hope that helps.  Custom orders are always welcomed!  Just email me with what you have in mind.

Wounded in the Act of World Domination

Dark, bruisey purples, plums and yellow-greens

Impact: Purples and plums are dominant, with shots of greens

4 ply Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 375 yards/100 g skein – $25 per skein:  6 available

Bedridden: a little more green showing, but still predominantly purples and plums

MCN Lace – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 575 yards/115 g skein – $25 per skein:  2 available

Donut: More greens in this version

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – $25 per skein:  5 available

Repentance: equal amounts of greens and purples/plums; softer colours

2 ply Merino – 100% Merino – 350 yds/100g – $20:  6 available

Have Fun Stormin’ the Castle

Stone greys with hints and highlights of muted purple, olive green, teal and pink

light version

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – $25:   3 skeins

dark version

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – 1 skeins

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – 4 skeins

Self-Elmolation

Shades of primary red

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – $25:  2 skeins

Grape Leaves

Warm greys, dark olive greens and red clay

4 ply Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 375 yards/100 g skein –  $25:  7 available

Held My Breath Too Long

deep, dark purples and plums

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – $25:  6 skeins

Monarch-y

2 ply Merino

MCN Sock

2 ply Merino - 100% Merino – 350 yds/100 g skein – $20:  3 available

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein –  $25:  3 available

Rusty the Rooster

Rusty brick red, with undertones of charcoal and plum

top:  MCN Sport – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 250 yards/115 g skein – $25:  10 available

Middle:  MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – $25: 10 available

Middle: MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein- $25:  6 available

Bottom:  DK Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 225 yards/100 g skein – $25:  10 available

Ernie Shirt

Rose pinks and periwinkle

2 ply Organic Merino & MCN Lace

2 ply Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 350 yds/100 g skein – $25:  4 available

MCN Lace – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 575 yds/115 g – $25: 1 available

I am Not a Shrimp…
I am a KING PRAWN!  (Deep oranges overdyed with purple and plum…earthy and complex)

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yds/115 g – $25: 7 available

Deer TV

Complex shades of cream and coffee, charcoal and chocolate

2 ply Merino - 100% Merino – 350 yds/100 g skein – $20: 5 available

Just Say Oregano

Because we all listened to Nancy Regan, didn’t we?

DK Organic Merino

Top: 4 ply Organic Merino; Bottom: Aran Organic Merino

DK Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 225 yds/100 g – $25: 9 available

4 ply Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 375 yds/100 g – $25:  9 available

Aran Organic Merino – 100% Ultrafine Organic Merino – 181 yds/100 g – $25: 10 available

MCN Lace – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 575 yds/115 g – $25:  2 available

New Yarns, Regular Updates and a CLUB!

Yes, a Club.

Starting February 14 (because I really hate Valentine’s Day), we’ll be taking subscriptions for the Smart Ass Knitters/World Domination 1 Skein Club. Choose a 6 month (3 packages) or 1 year (6 packages) option.  Each package will include a skein of Indigodragonfly yarn, a pattern for that yarn and knitting related, sometimes handmade, swag.  Designers will include Sarah Jenkins, Ronni Smith, Stephannie Roy, Glenna C and Susan Lutsky…all fantastic designers and bona fide smart asses.  This is going to be fun!

Prices:
1 year subscription – $26 per month (includes 1 skein of 100% cashmere) – Mailings:  June 15, August 15, October 15, December 15, 2010,  February 15, 2011 and April 15, 2011
6 month subscription – $24 per month – Mailings:  June 15, August 15, October 15 2010

To subscribe:  Visit this blog anytime after 1 am EST on February 14  to 11:59 pm EST on March 14.  The subscription button will be here waiting for you.

New Yarns

Over the next few updates, we will be gradually introducing some new yarns to our lineup.

Merino: available in Aran, DK and 2 ply Fingering weights.  Warm and wooly, this base is ideal for warm winter garments, yet still retaining that merino softness we know and love.

Organic Merino: 100% Certified Organic Ultrafine Merino will be available in Aran (pictured in the banner above), DK, and both 4 ply and 2 ply Fingering weights. Incredibly soft and squooshy, this is quickly becoming another of my favourites.

Visit my Ravelry yarn page for full details on on all of these yarns.

We hope you’ll try them and let us know what you think.

Regular Updates

Starting this week on Tuesday February 9 at 3 pm EST, we’ll be updating the shop on a weekly basis.  We’re going to try Tuesdays at 3 pm EST (New York/Toronto/Haliburton time), but may change it up occasionally to keep you on your toes!  Follow me on Twitter for up-to-the-minute updates!

Colour Stories: Wounded in the Act of World Domination

Back in October, my friend Stephannie had a nasty fall at work.  After determining that she was ok…nothing broken, just really sore…my inner smartass couldn’t help starting to work.  Bruised ass…good for really nothing else…should at the very least inspire a colourway.

For a while now, I’ve noticed that a certain group of knitters (I suspect all of us, really) have both tendancies for smartass-osity and a not-so-secret desire to take over the world.  You, you, you…and yes possibly you.  And so the Smartass Knitters for World Domination was born.  Clearly Stephannie is one of us, and on the day that she saw her pink daisy rainboots fly up in the air in front of her, she took one for the team.

Interestingly enough, this colourway is also a study in how different fibres take colour.  All of the below used the same combination of colours in the same concentrations and identical amounts.

Organic Merino Sock yarn, 100% organic merino

MCN Lace: 2 ply, 80% merino/10% cashmere/10% nylon

MCN Sock: 4 ply, 80% merino/10% cashmere/10% nylon

Merino Sock: 2 ply, 100% merino

Because of the vast differences in these, Ron has given them sub-names.  They are, from right to left:

Impact, Bedridden, Donut, Repentance.

Today’s lovely yarn bling brought to you by SNOW.

First Update of the New Year!

Updated:  Sunday January 24, 2010

To purchase any of the below yarn, please send me an email at indigodragonfly.K AT gmail.com (replace AT with “@”, no spaces) indicating which yarn(s) you would like and whether you want it shipped surface or air mail.  First email request for each yarn/fibre secures it.  I will send you a paypal invoice for the full amount plus shipping and ship the packages off within 3-5 days.   Shipping charges to the US will start at  $5 for surface mail and $6.70 for air mail.  Canada Post doesn’t make shipping charges for Canadian or International packages easy, so I will send you a shipping quote for your order for your approval.

Best attempts are made to photograph colours accurately, however colours do differ from monitor to monitor (I’ve checked).  I’ve also described the colours…and hope that helps.  Custom orders are always welcomed!  Just email me with what you have in mind.

All yarns in this update:  $25 per skein

Goth to a Flame

Black. Grey. Red. Various amounts of each in each skein. What, you thought the Goth would be predictable?

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – sold out

MCN Sport – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 250 yards/115 g skein – 6 skeins

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – 1 skein

Oh Glenna and her Lemongrass Martinis…

medium and light shades of olive and lemongrass

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – 4 skeins

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – 4 skeins

Have Fun Stormin’ the Castle

Shades of grey, with highlights of pale teal, purple, pink and orange.

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – 1 skeins

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – 3 skeins

Self-Elmolation

Shades of primary red

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – 3 skeins

Rachel H’s Tiara

deep teal, with undertones of blue, green and purple; glows from within

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – sold out

MCN Sport – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 250 yards/115 g skein – sold out

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein –sold out

**$1 from each skein sold goes to Doctors without Borders**

Held My Breath Too Long

deep, dark purples and plums

MCN Worsted – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 200 yards/115 g skein – 6 skeins

Rusty the Rooster

Brick red. Rust. Undertones of purple.

MCN Sport – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 250 yards/115 g skein – 10 skeins

MCN Sock – merino/cashmere/nylon blend – 375 yards/115 g skein – sold out

Colour Stories: Rachel H’s Tiara

Not all of my colour names are blatantly obvious.  Rachel H’s Tiara is one of those colours.

Way back in the Sock Summit planning days, in the midst of tornados of post it notes and mountains of spreadsheets, my friend Rachel H declared herself Queen of the Spreadsheets.  And mentioned something about deserving a tiara.  Now I’ve seen Rachel in action.  She is a master wielder of the clipboard.  Organizer extraordinaire.  And this weekend, she was busy tallying thousands of donation emails for Knitters Without Borders.  Ask, and she’s there with bells on.  So the request for a tiara?  I thought it should happen.

And she’s a knitter…so the yarn version of a tiara?  What would that be?  There is sparkly yarn…like Dream in Color’s Starry.  That would definitely work and would be the obvious choice.  But I am nothing if not obscure, and I really wanted to make it happen with colour. Something with life and sparkle.  Something that stands out from the others, but not in an expected way.  Something that changes subtley in different lights, making you pay attention.

This is that colour.  Even in the most subtle light, it glows from within, and yet is unassuming.  Like Rachel.

Because of all the hard work that she’s been doing for Knitters Without Borders, $1 from every skein in this colour will always go to Médicins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, every time it’s dyed.  And I plan on dyeing it a lot.

Lots Happening Around Here!

Although the blog has been pretty quiet, lots has been happening chez Indigodragonfly.

The yarn I ordered back in October arrived shortly before Christmas.

The Haliburton County Economic Development Corporation gave me a small loan to help me build my inventory.  This means I’ll be able to set a regular dyeing schedule and will be able to post updates more often (every 2-3 weeks, at a minimum).  As a result, I came home to several huge boxes last Friday!

And Ron has started to help me with the dyeing process and preparing the yarn for sale.  Meaning more gets dyed in a shorter amount of time.  Not a bad deal for anyone!

The next update will be:  Wednesday January 20 at 2:45 pm

Hope to see you there!

The Yarn is Coming! The Yarn is Coming!

After 2 months of waiting, I’ve just been informed that my supplier is sending out a large order of Merino/Cashmere/Nylon yarn in sock, sport and worsted weights.  I’m assuming this means they found the cashmere goats.  With that in mind, I expect the next update to be in early January.  Any colour requests?

As an apology for the wait, we’ve extended the deadline for all discount codes issued this fall at various events to February 18, 2010.  Plenty of time for Valentine’s Day gifts…or the “lack of Valentine’s” hangover.

Gift Certificates

Looking for a last minute Christmas gift suggestions?  Indigodragonfly now offers Gift Certificates in any denomination.  Available as an electronic (printable) file emailed directly to you, or as a gift card.  Email us at indigodragonfly.k@gmail.com for more information.

Patterns

Oh, and did I mention we have patterns available for sale?  :)   Right over there –>>

Ron and I have a little bit of a competition going:  which will sell better, the new cowl or the crazy mitts?  Stay tuned…

Old Copper Pipes

Today my world looks like this:

We’re snowed in.  The sn0w on the deck is at least up to my waist, and since I can no longer see the car, I assume it’s even deeper out in the world.

So I’ve had plenty of time to finish writing up the pattern for the Old Copper Pipes cowl.

Designed to look like twisted, old copper pipes, this cowl’s complex cables create a thick layer of warmth against cold snowy days.  Knit with a double strand of Malabrigo Sock Yarn, the Archangel colourway has all the layers of colour of oxidized copper.  One of my favourite things.

Enjoy!

$5.00 US — PDF download

Troiclaux

A couple of years ago, Ron asked for a pair of three fingered mitts.

Not Hunter’s Mitts.  Not gloves.  And not, god forbid, covertible mitts.  Three fingered mitts.  That look exactly like this:

I know, because he drew me a picture of what he wanted, and then we went on a field trip to Lettuce Knit to pick out the yarn.  (Occasionally he takes the mitts back there to visit their “brothers”)  Apparently he had a pair of fleece ones when he worked at Canada’s Wonderland in his youth and has been pining for them ever since.

I think they’re just weird.  But he thinks they’re the best thing ever.  I think he may even like them more than me.

Troiclaux the pattern.

Now available.

Knit well and prosper?

*sigh*

Discount Deadline Extended

Hello everyone…

Well, my undyed yarn order still hasn’t arrived.  Something to do with the difficulty of getting enough cashmere fibre to spin enough yarn to fill orders.

If you have a discount coupon/card from me, I’m extending the deadline on it until December 31, 2009.  All orders placed with the card code prior to that date will get the discount.  This includes custom orders.

Thank you all for your patience.  I hope to be dyeing lots for you soon!