Sasha Doll Style

1 November 2011

I am working on the new Sasha doll collection at the moment - Winter Shoreline...

The colours are beautiful...  taupe, sand, cream, sky blue, sea green, greys...  some are subtle and muted whilst others are strong and dramatic reminiscent of a stormy day...

31 August 2010

Continuation of the Mini Mochi sweater is coming along... slowly...

The first sleeve is finished...  As I like my sleeves to match and the colour variation in the ball of yarn were not going to allow me to get a repeat without a lot of wastage if at all...

I carefully unravelled the yarn and cut it at the end of each colour repeat (tricky as the colours blend through each other beautifully) and then divided each of these exactly in half so that I get the movment of the colours on the sleeves to match each other as perfectly as possible.  I just like them to match and if they don't I am not as happy with them. 

It is turning out to be a very pretty sweater.

20 August 2010

I know I should be working on the duffle coat... and I have been working on it...

but Murder She Wrote was starting on BBC1...

and this ball of Mini Mochi by Crystal Palace Yarns was just calling to me...

it arrived before I went away and it has been sitting waiting for me to come home...

sitting on top of my stash, I hadn't even put it away in the appropriate storage box... (yes I have 26 storage boxes full of gorgeous wool all wound into balls and sorted into colour families awaiting use)

but the colours in this ball are just so beautiful that my resistance melted away...

the yarn is unusual... very little twist in it but incredibly soft to the touch...

Friday, 11 June 2010

I am busy busy busy at the moment...

In the morning I am photographing all the outfits for the new collection... The sweater on the needles was to be part of the Step into Spring collection but I felt that on reflection... the colours were not quite right for this set so it remains on the needles... along with a number of other projects... I have used three yarns for this fairisle stripe pattern, a lovely teal, a natural white and a multi colour yarn in yellow/turquoise/teal/green/ivory.  The sweater looks lovely with the fabric that it coordinates with...

Anyway... back to sewing duffle coats...