Exciting!! I've designed something warm and cosy with my own The Curio Crafts Room yarn!
But first, let me tell you how I came to have a yarn named after my crochet business :) As you may know, I'm a Scheepjes blogger and at the end of 2017 Scheepjes had a huge surprise in store for all us bloggers: we could select our own colour palette for a new yarn they had developed. We got to select 6 colours for a variegated yarn that reflected our business or simply our taste. Obviously I went for a peacock palette as most of my designs and the colours I use are peacock inspired and the result is that fabulous ball you see on the left in both photos. The yarn collection is called Scheepjes Our Tribe and there are now 38 colours in total with both variegated and uni-coloured yarns.
If you'd like to read a little bit more about and see pictures of how we selected the colours for our personal yarn, see this blog post.
It's now 2022 and I have to make a confession......I hadn't made anything with the yarn that carries my business name until last week......yep......so it was high time to do that. I designed a beautiful and quick in-between project for the holidays. What I did is, I combined my own yarn with a gorgeously vibrant uni colour called Iris Garden and decided to use them double stranded. Using a 6.5mm hook, I had it finished in no time to wear outside now the weather here in The Netherlands is quite wintery. In case you're curious, I'll show a sneak peek really soon. I'm writing up the free pattern as we speak and it will be available in both English and Dutch in about a week's time.
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| Our Tribe yarn: colour 974 The Curio Crafts Room (left) and colour 884 Iris Garden (right) |
I did make a lovely shawl using Our Tribe yarn in the Canadutch colourway. The pattern is available in my Ravelry and Etsy shop.
 Star Beam Shawl: Dragon tail shawl in Our Tribe Ravelry Etsy |
Yarn details
Our Tribe is a variegated yarn that is beautifully twined, which creates a dappled effect and thus the idea that there are even more than the 6 different colours each ball consists of. The more the colours contrast, the more dappled the effect. It's super soft and works up very smoothly and quickly. It consists of 70% Merino Superwash and 30% Polyamide and comes in 100g (420m) balls suitable for hook/needle size 2.5 to 3mm, or even larger when making shawls because that'll result in a beautiful drape. It's machine washable at 40 degrees. Since the day we created the blogger colourways, quite a few new colours have been added to the range and now you can choose from 38 different colours - both variegated and single colours.
Where to shop for Scheepjes Our Tribe and other yarns
Scheepjes yarns are available from WoolWarehouse (international) and Caro’s Atelier (The Netherlands). If you purchase yarn through the affiliate links below, I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!*
Click on the link and it will take you to the shops where you can search for the yarn you’d like:
UK Wool Warehouse: http://shrsl.com/17owu
NL Caro’s Atelier:
Or shop at other Scheepjes stockists.
Thank you to Scheepjes for providing the yarn for this design.
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