YarnCon 2013 This Weekend

You might recall that I helped The Wool Dispensary launch at YarnCon in 2011.

This year's YarnCon event is a little different. A new venue, a new time-of-year (spring instead of fall), and it's also now a 2-day event instead of one.

via The Wool DispensaryYarnCon kicks off tomorrow at 11am.

YarnCon 2013 Details:

April 6 & 7, 2013

Saturday 11-7, Sunday 11-4

Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Hall

1340 W Washington St., Chicago, Illinois 60607

Oh, and the first several attendees are getting a lovely goody bag, so make sure you show up early!

New Pattern: Syren Scarf - Happy Anniversary to The Wool Dispensary!

First, Happy Anniversary to The Wool Dispensary! Woot! It's been a yarn since The Wool Dispensary launched a gorgeous line of hand dyed yarns. This year's focus? A color collection based on fairy tales.

The Syren Scarf pattern was created to celebrate the new color collection. It's whimsical and pretty. And it showcases the lovely colors that Sam creates - 13th Fairy and Goblin City to name a few.

The Syren Scarf pattern is available exclusively via Doodlebug Yarn through October 2012. It will then be available for purchase via my Ravelry shop.

Featured Yarn: The Wool Dispensary Useful Poison, a fingering weight MCN blend. Colors: 13th Fairy & Goblin City. This yarn is also available at Doodlebug Yarn.

View pattern details on Ravelry.

“But think again,” said the witch; “for when once your shape has become like a human being, you can no more be a mermaid. You will never return through the water to your sisters, or to your father's palace again; and if you do not win the love of the prince, so that he is willing to forget his father and mother for your sake, and to love you with his whole soul, and allow the priest to join your hands that you may be man and wife, then you will never have an immortal soul. The first morning after he marries another your heart will break, and you will become foam on the crest of the waves.” - The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen

Pattern Preview: Syren Scarf

The Syren Scarf is a fun little project I whipped up in celebration of The Wool Dispensary's first year anniversary.

Just one year ago, The Wool Dispensary raised money via Kickstarter to launch a specially curated line of colorful kettle dyed yarns at Chicago's YarnCon event. It was a great success.

This pretty pattern will be available via Doodlebug Yarn, an online shop that carries the yarn featured: The Wool Dispensary's Useful Poison.

More details soon!

Current Obsession: Linen Stitch

Chickadee Cowl using MadelineTosh Tosh Merino Light in Burnished. Project bag -  The Wool Dispensary.

Featured FO: LaurenS's Understory Cowl

Are you knitting the Understory Cowl along with The Wool Dispensary this month?

Here's a beautiful FO from one KAL knitter - LaurenS.

(C) LaurenSHer cowl isn't blocked yet, but it's gorgeous already! I was so excited about her FO that I asked to post about it immediately!

(C) LaurenSLauren made the Understory Cowl pattern her own by decreasing the circumference by 12 sts, and working 9 full repeats of the fir cone lace pattern.

You can check out her full project details on Ravelry.

Lauren's gorgeous, squishy cowl is knit up using The Wool Dispensary's Greater Poison yarn in the Georgia Building Castles colorway.

(C) LaurenSAll images used with permission.