Find Your Tribe and Your Yarn: Creating and Sharing

Last week I published the pattern for my very first shawl design, the Moonwish Wrap (you can find it here on my blog and on Ravelry and Etsy). And today I can already present the yarn I chose for my second shawl design: Scheepjes Our Tribe. This yarn is super soft and has a beautiful drape, so it's ideal for shawls and wraps. If you'd like to learn the very special story of how this yarn came into being, read on.....

Find Your Tribe, Love Them Hard

I have to start with a little flashback to 2016: A beautiful restaurant at the edge of a lake somewhere in the northern part of The Netherlands on a cold November day just a few weeks before Christmas. Me and my fellow Scheepjes Bloggers gathered around a large table. Dozens of paint chip cards. 

Then we are asked to make our own personal colour combination from all these cards, a combination limited to only 6 colours. Can you imagine how difficult that is? Yes, verrrry! Even more difficult when you realize that these 6 colours are going to form your own personal colourway for a new variegated yarn especially developed for us as a group. But of course we managed and also managed to come up with very diverging colourways. The photo below shows mine: The Curio Crafts Room. Unsurprisingly, I went for peacock colours, which made the selection process a little easier. For my new shawl design I did not choose my own colourway though because I really like to 'save' it for a design that is really peacocky.

Making our own colour combinations was not the only thing we had to do; the yarn also needed a name. Almost immediately the word TRIBE came up. The Scheepjes Bloggers form a tight-knit group that chat almost every day. We are all business owners and that can be very demanding and stressful sometimes, so we need one another to stay sane and most of all we need one another to share the joys of creating. So the yarn was baptized OUR TRIBE because we were so lucky to find and cement a creative and uplifting tribe. We all have the same bracelet - you can see it in the first picture above: "Find Your Tribe", and then of course Love them hard!

New Shawl Design

As you can imagine, I'm really looking forward to creating a shawl with this yarn with its special history. I chose my friend Tammy's colourway, which carries the name of her blog: Canadutch. I especially love the purple shades it has. 

I've set out to design a series of at least 4 shawls that all have a different shape. The first one was made top down into a half-circle/crescent shape. This one couldn't be more different. Next week you can expect the first WIP pictures and I'll also reveal part of the special shape. And within the next month or so I will share the pattern with you.

Our Tribe: Canadutch colourway

Yarn details

Let me round off with some (technical) 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 6 different colours. 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 buy Scheepjes Our Tribe

Scheepjes Our Tribe yarn is available from the online retailers listed below. Click the link and it will take you to the yarn:

UK Wool Warehouse: http://shrsl.com/17oxa

UK Deramores: http://tidd.ly/4aa64575

UK Black Sheep Wools: http://shrsl.com/1sq13

CA Knotty House: http://shrsl.com/17oy3

NL Caro’s Atelier: https://caros-atelier.webshopapp.com/tracking/tradetracker/redirect/?tt=27390_12_296927_&r=%2Fwol-en-garen%2Fscheepjes%2Four-tribe%2F
And available from various other Scheepjes stockists: scheepjes.com/en/shops

Thank you to Scheepjes for providing the yarn for this design.

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