Today I would like to introduce you to a lovely new sponsor, Carle’ from Nurturing Fibres, I have known Carle’ for many years and truly admire her ability to dye the most gorgeous yarns imaginable.
Stormy Blues
Carle’s Story….
I learnt to spin and weave about 12 years ago and from there I began to dabble with yarn dyeing. After a few years, I became fascinated with socks and shawls and needed a good source of natural yarns. I struggled to find natural yarns in South Africa and it was almost near impossible to get hand dyed yarns. So, it look me ages to find undyed skeins and dyes, but once I did, I was inspired. My first skeins were exciting, so I quickly dyed more and my fun business was born. Initially, I dyed yarns in a sink, but this has now changed and I have a dye room and studio on the farm.
Namaqualand
My dye house is the fun room, this is where I clear my thoughts and allow the colours to guide me. I start with 3 colours, Yellow, Red and Blue. Then I apply the dyes and allow the colours to move into each other and the yarn. Sometimes, I have a very clear sense of what I want to achieve and other times all I know is that I want to dye yarn. It’s when I have no expectations that I create the wonderfully tonal colours like, ‘London’ available on Betwixt.
London
Fire
When I dye my club yarns, I look to nature for inspiration, select a photo and then interpret it onto the yarn. These colourways have between 40 to 50 yards before the colour repeats, so these are super fun to knit and you never quite know what colour or design the next knitted row will bring. The end result is you knit fast and finish your project quickly.
Pearl
Today is a very special day for me because I am launching a new club. It is called COLOURS from AFRICA. These 4 new colourways will be available in 2013. I also have a few other clubs that are starting in the next few weeks. I will be blogging about these soon.
Green Fields
Carle’s Social Media Links:
Twitter
Web Page
Ravelry
Ravelry Group
Facebook
Blog
Pinterest
Giveaway:
The winner will receive a wonderful custom dyed ball of yarn, that will be inspired by their selection (see below).
Or
If you are brave you can choose to get the first colourway from Carle’s Mystery Club.
To enter the giveaway:
1] Look at Carle’s yarns on Ravelry and choose your favourite 1 or more colourway/s. If you aren’t on ravelry then you can look on Betwixt or her web page.
2] Leave a comment in this post telling her the name of your favourite colourway.
To earn extra entires in this lovely giveaway, please share about it on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest and remember to leave a comment each time you share to earn more entries!
Congratulations to:
everything is so beautiful it’s hard to choose. i love the charcoal colors and forest glade, but the pinks and chocolates are gorgeous too…
i’ve never joined a club before, but now i’m very interested! nice to meet you carle! thank you and linda for offering this giveaway!
Carle’, thank you so much for sharing your journey here with us and for your generous giveaway!
xo
Linda
My favorite colourways are the stunning grey yarns, Pony Grey and Charcoal both make my heart sing and the new London also promises to put a smile on my face!
Super twist Sock Wool in Peacock. I have been planning a project in my head….I am loving free form knitting, and have been inspired by the peacock…this yarn would be perfect! Pick me….pick me!
Carlé and Linda – what a lovely post and a lovely giveaway.
One of my favourites, for a combination of the lovely yarn and the wonderful inspiration, was Twist Street in the Rain.
I also loved Kelim for the clever yarn dying, and gorgeous knit up results.
Oh, this was hard to pick one, I picked three!
Winter Skies
What a girl wants
Rainbow
What a girl wants would be m normal choice but I probably have enough purple yarn atm so if i had to pick it would be Winter Skies
Self striping-Faraway Tree is my favorite colorway. Thanks for the giveaway!
Me! Me! Please…my favourite colourway was the Box of Chocolates (…and the Valentine’s…and the Namaqualand…and the Elements Fire…and…and…and…)
Pinned it!
It’s very difficult to choose a favorite of all Carle’s colorways. The one I missed is Twist Street in the Rain. The one I didn’t miss is Fire. Beautiful yarn inspires beautiful knitting. I love it!!!
Seriously, favorite colorway, *singular*?
Fire, because I get two that way.
Also Namaqualand, box of chocolates, truffle even though I didn’t get any, midnight @ roxy’s, autumn mosaic… and though I haven’t seen it in person, the london colorway is gorgeous. I assume I’m forgetting a few.
I posted on Twitter. The Yarn at Nurturing Fibres s is wonderful.
I pinned it!
what beautiful wool! it can be so hard to find beautiful hand dyed wool- this looks amazing and just the thing i’ve been looking for
charcoal, silver lining, red warmth….. they all make me want to take up my needles again! thanks for the possibility of winning such beautiful wool!
I love Dandelion or Cape Columbine. What vibrant colors. Just looking at the selections makes me want to stop cleaning up around the house and head to my needles. But I’ll try to finish one task before starting yet another. Thanks for this opportunity. I may just have to place an order!!
Pinned it
Pinky
I think my favourite so far is the Valentines yarn, I have not knitted it yet but the story I plan to tell with it will be very close to my heart.
Carle does more than add colour to yarn, she gives people a voice, through their love on yarn and knitting she support and encourages so many women.
Who can resist a bit of Mystery
Tweeted it
Pinned.
I don’t think that there are any NF colourways that I don’t love!
I love the Namaqualand green, the truffle brown and charcoal grey.
I’m still kicking myself for not buying the ‘Clay pots’ and the ‘Monkeys Wedding’ colours
But best of all, I love love love ‘Box of Chocolates’
pinned and facebooked
And tweeted.
What a Girl Wants – such stunning colours! Can just picture these as lovely warm socks!
my fav colourway so far is box of chocolates
What beautiful yarn!!!!!! I really like the water way sock wool! I will be buying some soon, but I do hope I win some. It will make wonderful Christmas gifts for my daughter. Thank you for your wonderful blog.
I really like Dandelion Supertwist Sock! Thanks for the chance
So many beautiful colorways! I’m in love with Super twist Sock Wool in Forest Glade today.
The Emerald Mine colorway is so pretty–thanks for telling us about this beautiful yarn.
I pinned it!
Oh hellooooo self striping EVERYTHING! I love both Faraway Tree and Lagoon. The Savannah Sun would be fun to make socks for a little girl by that name… all lovely!
Aran Wool in Autumn Sky: it’s stratospheric!
So hard to pick just one. I really like London. There is something pearly about it, like a glow. Swirling Skies and Poseidon also catch my eye. So much yarn, so little time!
So many pretty colors! I love poseidon and sunshine. So lovely!
I wish I could have a room dedicated to dyeing wool. Mmmm. Some day. (:
Hi! I shared on Pinterest. Also pinned a few more things.
Hi. I also put his on my Facebook timeline!
what beautiful yarns and colours …. I think I would choose “Poseidon” or “Robin meets Dove”. I love my blues.
All such gorgeous yarns! But I do have a soft spot for Sweet Valentine (as Valentine’s Day is my birthday!).
Wow lovely colours. I’d have to say I love the Tom Waits colour. Bluey grey
rainbow! I’ve wanted to knit my son something w/rainbow yarn for a long time!
How wonderfully generous, congratulations to the lucky winner! I just adore the Supertwist Sock Wool – Box of Chocolates, what pretty colours, I feel it would be wonderful to attempt my first pair of socks with. xxBrenda
Now that was a lot of fun, I have been sitting here just drooling over all the lovely yarns.
I think my favorite is, “What a Girl Wants”; not only do I love the purple color, I love the
name. A wonderful giveaway, thank you.
Waters Edge and Chocolate are the two that had me drooling onto my Keyboard.
Pinned it !~!
I also posted it on my Timeline on Facebook with that gloriously stunning picture of the bubble.
London and Oxalis are absolutely stunning!
I like the Jasper and Walking the Grapes colorways. Also, I really hope this giveaway is open to the US!
I love the peacock colorway.
What fun . . thanks for the chance at a win!! I would love the Peacock . . . or the London . . . or a surprise . . yes indeed – a surprise is always a treat
Ooooh the choice. I think the ‘London” is inspiring and is just waiting to be crocheted or knitted. Many thanks your wool is absolutely gorgeous. PS if I am a lucky winner please don’t tell my husband I have promised to downsize the stash.
everything is so beautiful it’s hard to choose. i love the charcoal colors and forest glade, but the pinks and chocolates are gorgeous too…
i’ve never joined a club before, but now i’m very interested! nice to meet you carle! thank you and linda for offering this giveaway!
Beautiful yarn…so difficult to choose just one! I love all the green colorways and but I am going to say Faraway Tree is my favorite. Thanks!
I have fallen for Robin Meets Dove. The yarns look gorgeous.
I love the Robin meets Dove – Super Twist Sock Wool
they were all so very pretty,but if i had to choose,it would be either faraway tree or lagoon in the supertwist sock yarn.oh,there is a 3rd possibility–surprise me with the first color from the mystery club! (but if i had to narrow it down,i think i need a little more surprise in my life–mystery it is…)
and i shared this to my timeline on facebook!
My favorite is the Super Twist Sock yarn in the green. Looks gorgeous. Best to you,
beautiful! Thanks for the chance.
I shared on Facebook!!
Did I mention I love Box of Chocolates too? That’s the one I hold close to my heart.
Poseidon, Sunshine and Vamp Love….and Faraway Tree….I just can’t decide…
It is almost impossible to choose just one, but I love, love, love the subtle tones of Pearl! So many beautiful rich and subtly sweet colourways!
Lovely colorways! I laugh every time I use that expression – I learned it here – not often I run into words I’ve never heard before.
oohhhh, i love the robin meets dove… soooooo pretty
I love What a girl Wants and also the special edition “my Gynae rocks” which I was lucky enough to get!
I am in love with Eco Cotton Stormy Sky!
Rainbow is very pretty but my favourite one is definitely the pearl colour from this blog entry by far!
By far, Hidden Treasures of the Sock Club. The one regret I have is that I didn’t order more at the time…
I really like London. The splashes of color in the grey base is really lovely.
Wonderful yarn and amazing colours. Like Bliss, Sunshine and Chocolate fudge most of all:))
Ooohhhh, so hard to choose, I have just learnt to knit some socks – just finished my third sock……. I like…Elements Air – Dandelion and I like …..chocolate (the colour as well as the food of the Gods! and I like ….. charocoal … and speckled….and Namaqualand. Thank you for sharing and for your generosity plus the chance to win.
I love them all, but my favourites right now are Choc Fudge, Robin’s Egg, Iron Oxide (sock) and all the colours of merino singles I have (Je Suis, Nori, Fern, Old English Rose, Middle Earth). Of the previous club colours I like the look of Kelim the most!
Oh, and how could I forget Box of Chocolates!
LOVE the Tom Waits colourway!
…Bouganvilleas and London coming in a close second, as well as Forest and Lagoon…Peacock…Box of chocolates is super-duper yummy too! oh wow oh wow!!)
Have tweeted, Facebooked and Google+ed
Shared on Facebook as well.
Carle’s yarns are all so beautiful, how can a person choose? Letting it be a mystery sounds good to me.
There’s nothing better than going through my yarn ark and pondering what to make with all my NF yarn. At the moment my thoughts are consumed with my brand new pregnancy, so my planned projects have become all about baby. With a few weeks still to go before we find out what the baby is (if it plays along, that is), I’m partial to unisex colours – greys, browns, greens, etc etc. My sister gifted me the Nurturing Fibres Seasonal Sock Club yarn in Basotho Blanket a short while ago as a surprise and I’m absolutely in love with it as well as the contrasting red and grey that went along with it.
Gorgeous colourways all over! I would go for ‘Waterlillies’ (Spaghetti Aran), but in case I win, I would be surprised by the first mystery çlub choice. . .
This is tough to choose! I would have to say a toss up between Kelim (I missed out on that one) and Box of Chocolates!
I love them all…..but as I have to choose…
Pearl (above)
Box of Chocolates…
Robin meets dove
toms Garden
xxxx
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LIKED of facebook
many nice choices!! I’ll say I like the spaghetti fiber combo, & like WATER LILIES! yum!
I pinned!
I like the sweet valentine colorway!
All so beautiful. I like estuary.
It’s impossible to pick one as a favourite so I would pick the first colourway from Carle’s Mystery Club. Thanks for this awesome giveaway.
I love Kalk Bay, Box of Chocolates, Emerald and of course Rainbow!
What a girl wants and Sweet Valentine are my favorites
Beautiful yarns!!
I pinned it!
http://pinterest.com/pin/260645897155595601/
‘Swirling Skies’ in the preorder section is my favorite.
I love pony grey, its a nice soft grey that is warm but cool at the same time!
OregonGrl on Ravelry
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Well, it is so hard to chose: Carle is a master both in her technique and her colour choices. I think the “fire” elements club and “what a girl wants” are my favourites that I have fondled, but I often wish I knew about Rav and was on the clubs when kelim and agapanthus were created…they are really, really beautiful.
I love the peacock Supertwist Sock. Gorgeous!
I retweeted one of your tweets about the giveaway.
I love the fire colorway, though there are many beautiful colors
The colors are all so lovely. Oxalis and Autumn Sky especially caught my eye.
oooh, so hard to choose! I think my favourite is bliss, but if I was making something for my oldest, I would choose Poseidon, and for my youngest, I would choose Swirling skies (all from the sock yarn colourways).
OMGosh, I can’t decide between all the colors you posted in this blog entry or bliss, or water’s edge, or moody blue, or fire…….. What great colors you’re creating!
So so hard to choose, I like your colorways that are bright such as Fire and London.
A hard choice! Peacock caught my eye right away, and emerald mine. Then I ventured out of the sock yarn, and found lagoon. ooooh. Figured I’d better stop there!
Really beautiful colors
Quinn on rav
Wonderful giveaway! Myfavorite would beBox of chocolates! Beautiful yarn!
Box of Chocolates! love it!
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Wow, if I had to choose, I think I’d say ‘What A Girl Wants’ supertwist sock is my fav! Such a vibrant purple hue!
Sweet Valentine in the sock wool is very pretty
I LOVE Monkey’s Wedding!!! I also really like Boughanvilleas!
Thank you for the opportunity!
I like Goth Love in the Supertwist Sock Wool.
I love the “Rainbow” colorway. “What’s A Girl Wants” comes in a close second. “Sweet Valentine’s” would be a really close third.
I like the Blaze colorway
How can you choose just one color? I liked What a Girl Wants, Sweet Valentine, and Shiraz. Anything with saturated colors usually does it for me.
Hello lovely Linda,, the yarns are just lovely, I love the pearl shawl and hope to make one soon. It’s been a while since I visited your blog….oh friend I don’t have much time these days – I stopped by because I remembered you had a scrumptious banana cake recipe which we made today… the boys devoured it. Your bike ride must have been quite an adventure. Just love your little santa hat, I shall be back for more inspiration soon. Big kiss to you Linda.xxx
I really liked the verigated purples i saw on ravelry it was super cute. But I also liked the rainbow. It was all pretty awesome looking yarn thanks for such a great giveaway.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Peacock
There are such fabulous selections but I especially love the Moods and the Robin meets Dove.
Thank you for a great giveaway.
I loce the Supertwist Sock in Cape Columbine!
I love Poseidon….gorgeous colors. It was hard to decide!
I really like the twisted sock yarns, but I’m a real sucker for pink and couldn’t get past the “Pink Cadillac” silk haze yarn. So gorgeous!
Sweet Valentine, and Shiraz. are beautiful……ooo and I like Poseidon too lol
I love Fire!!!
I tweeted here:
https://twitter.com/DebbieGussek/status/265610368817184768
I shared on Facebook.
I pinned my fav coloway Fire! here:
https://pinterest.com/pin/174373816793839774/
What a generous giveaway! I would like the mystery colourway choice. Thanks for a chance!
I love all the Supertwist Sock Wool colors…but especially like Water’s Edge…
Beautiful yarns….
nhsarab on ravelry
nhsarab at yahoo dot com
Lovely giveaway! I love the deep, rich greens of Namaqualand, Forest Glade and the like (especially in Supertwist Sock).
My favourite was the fire colour way, although I never had any myself, I just loved the projects that the other group members made!
Jellybean is coming up a close second at the moment though!
Aaaaaaand tweeted!
Blues and greens call to me, but I keep buying pinks. Go figure! Favorites right now are the Sapphire Kidsilk and Wild Grasses Sock.
tweeted it.
pinterest-ed it too!
Oh my goodness, I love the Savanah Sun sock wool! It’s like a burst of sunshine in the darker days of November. Also reminds me of my daughter’s name, Harmony, which always seemed like a bright, beautiful name : )
Oh my, aren’t they ALL gorgeous???
I’m always drawn to greens… like Seaweed in the lace weight.
But it has to be the Mystery club for me! ღ
About to share giveaway on facebook.
Just another observation – LOVE the colour-way names. Really enjoyed reading through them!
winter skies is great!
Oh gosh that spaghetti aran in firstfallens stash is awesome! beautiful colours!
My favorite colorways are Twist Street in the Rain and the London colorway. Both speak to me so much! Thanks for sharing this fiber artist-and the giveaway!
I absolutely love all the colors in the Supertwist Sock Yarn. I am in a phase of knitting shawls, wraps, and carves with sock yarn! What a great collection!
I love the Savanah Sun wonderful.
i like Beach Life
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I like Water Hyacinth. Thank you.
Congrats to LORI!