My Morning Jacket finalizes their yarn! 07/13/2009
No pictures just yet. I am just reporting that Jim James has made the final decisions regarding the My Morning Jacket colorway! (no hints, but i'm telling you its really great, gender neutral & very wearable.) Blue Faced Leicester 07/10/2009
My new 100% Blue Faced Leicester fingering weight has arrived. Mercy June is napping. I'm going in! (oh, more RareBird Lace, New Lace, Roving & Pigeon are here too. I have LOTS of work to do!) x o x o Live on Etsy! 07/07/2009
After some back & forth & a few people saying "i like to use pay pal..." we decided to open a shop on Etsy. There has already been quite a few passer by's who've discovered TDY & i'm hoping for more!! Please stop by & say hellooooooo. www.turtledoveyarns.etsy.com Shop Update Today! 7/3 07/03/2009
 Today, July 3rd there have been 4 new Magpie & 4 new BlackBird yarns added to the shop in limited edition colorways & very limited quantities. enjoy! Get TDY, Tallahassee! 06/28/2009
 Now you can find lots of TurtleDove Yarns at Wooly Bully in Tallahassee, FL. After hosting our debut there 2 weeks ago the shop has decided to carry TDY full time. We are honored & excited to be able to offer our wares to our very own local community at our, of course, all time favorite LYS. Thanks Hannah!! So, if you are in the area, take the opportunity to stop in & fondle some of our yarns including our much loved DK weight, Chickadee - a blend of bamboo, silk & merino. You'll also find our Pigeon Sock, Pigeon w/Bamboo Sock and our Magpie sock in lots of colorways. Our RareBird Lace sold out completely at our show, so it is coming soon & with gorgeous new colorways. enjoy! Blackbird is here! 06/27/2009
Yep, I finally got my hands back in the dye pot & worked up two brand new colorways in celebration of our brand new yarn!   BlackBird: Kerala 400yds/100g BlackBird will soon be avialable in a number of our other colorways, including Hard Cider, Blood Orange, Peacock & some new ones too. Life on Mars 06/25/2009
 Recently my mother received an email indicating that Mars would be swinging into Earths orbit come August 2009. The email indicated that the red planet would be visible to the naked eye - as clearly & as large as our own moon. THAT would be amazing - to look up & see the Mars just like you were looking at the Moon! It'd be like we were living in a scene from Dune or Land of the Lost. (i sent my mom a link from Sky & Telescope, letting her know the email is a hoax). I happened to be working on these socks at the time that my mom disclosed this supposed upcoming event to me. The pomegranate colorway resembled the Red Planet & reminded me of the new trace elements discovered recently upon an expedition to Mars, thus the sock was aptly named Trace Elements.  Construction: This sock is knit using 2 circular needles, but could easily be adapted to using double pointed or magic loop method. I used a heel flap design & Kitchener toe technique. Stitch Pattern: The overall design of the sock has vertical lines - which is really nice for a sock if it is destined to be on my foot. I always prefer that my socks have linear vertical elements rather than any type of horizontal lines. I do not need a sock to make my legs look any more like sausages. A thin, long line throughout a sock pattern creates length through my ankles & eliminates some self consciousness from my mind! The Yarn: I chose to work with the TDY Magpie for this sock. A) because no one believed me that it was in fact a fingering weight yarn because it is fluffy & bouncy, springy & full of body. B) becaues it is fluffy, bouncy, springy & full of body. and C) because i wanted you all to see just how the colors from the House Blend Collection work up. Our House Blend Collection yarns are not dyed in a traditional manner which can create patterns of stripes or repeating colors throughout your fabric. Instead, our House Blend Yarns are dyed in a way that creates a wash of various shades of a single color or color family. This method results in less frequency of pooling, flashing & striping. This is one of my favorite ways to dye yarns & definitely one of my favorite yarns to knit. Pattern coming soon ish... TDY introduction party!! 06/15/2009
 TDY Magpie Sock Big thanks to everyone who came out to our introduction party at Wooly Bully in Tallahassee. We were so excited to see how everyone received our yarns & colors, and to see our old friends & customers again. We brought yarns in each of our 3 different categories of colorways including our Hand Dyed Collection, Carnival Collection & our House Blend Collection.  chickadee DK In addition, our brand new DK weight yarn, Chickadee, combines bamboo, silk & wool. It was very popular & you can expect to see more of it in the future. I used this yarn in the slouchy lace beret which was on display. It is a personal pattern I'll be adding as a free download to this site & to ravelry soon.  ziona & mercy There was a lot of baby holding going on! And we were able to get some serious feedback from you guys about our colorways. Particularly what you want to see more of - definitely more of the Carnival Collection and I promise to get more Qwerty, Insect & Firefly as soon as possible.  You all were crazy about all three varieties sock yarn, as we'd expected. Many of you bought our Pigeon, Pigeon Plus (bamboo) or Magpie with the intention of making Pteryla, a pattern provided to us by our very own, Shari Hill, of Blue Button Studios. You can look for more of her great patterns on our website.  Pat Puckett got his winding arm in shape ahead of time. He knew what was in store for him during the introduction day! At some point I think he talked Reagan & Heather into doing some winding, telling them it was "really fun!"  lori now owns this little gem! Definitely one of our biggest hits was our RareBird Lace - a perfect blend of Baby Alpaca, Silk & Cashmere. We sold out of this one & will be restocking it ASAP. I am so excited to get to see what you all are creating with this stunning yarn! Pat & I are so grateful for our Tallahassee community for turning out & supporting us in our new adventure. We are very appreciative to Hannah of Wooly Bully, who invited us to host an introduction party to our line of new yarns. I am looking forward to hearing from all of you about how your yarn is working up & what you are creating. thank you again, we love our tallahassee peeps! x o x o My Season for Swallowtails 06/07/2009
 This is a very pretty light gray & pale yellow variegated yarn from the Pigeon Sock selection. Its actually a mistake skein - which is why it gets to stay home with me. One of my favorite colorways is Waxwing - which consists of 2 shades of yellow, one pale & one darker & 2 equally varied shades of gray. This skein was well on its way to being a Waxwing, but was stopped in the process, as it was accidentally dyed with just one shade of gray & one shade of yellow. It works out wonderfully though, as while i contemplated making Swallowtail, i really wanted a gray yarn. I remembered this mistake skein & grabbed it from my stash. The gray & yellow are similar tones & that keeps the yarn looking sophisticated & simple, but with just a hint of added interest.  The Swallowtail Shawl, by Evelyn Clark, was originally published in Interweave Knits, Fall 2006. It was a project that i was immediately drawn to the first time i came across it. i frequently dug through my magazines & found the pattern when contemplating a new project. I have spent lots of time perusing the finished Swallowtails on Ravelry. But as a yarn shop owner, i was forever knitting samples for the store & never just because i wanted to make something. Now, it is 2009 & i am not stocking my shop full of samples & there is not a baby in my belly, i am free to knit as i please. Swallowtail it is! An unexpected gift 06/04/2009
 Recently my friend Bethany gave me this bee hive mobile/chime. She is an amazing potter & creates the beautiful yarn bowls we offer on the hedgehog site. Bethany teaches pottery at Florida State University. She hand made each little porcelain bee, hand knit the hive using an organic cotton/wool blend yarn from O-Wool. She used power tools, hardware & a lot of brain power to create the skeleton of the hive. Its really amazing. The little bees make a sweet twinkling sound when they meet. I feel so lucky to be the recipient of such a work of art! Thank you Bethany!!  | Erica Bea
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