New Colorway inspired by New Book

We are so excited!! Barbara Delinsky, the well known novelist, has a new book called Not My Daughter coming out Jan 5, 2010. In conjunction with this book we have designed a new Colorway called Spring Eclipse. We have been working with her publicists at Doubleday to make special tags that talk about the book and the yarn. It is such an honor to participate in this project with Barbara!!

The main character in this new book has a hand dyed yarn business with her friends. That is not the main storyline but we were excited about it anyway!! And all the ladies in this fictitious business are knitters. How fun is that??? If you are interested in reading more of what Barbara wrote see her blog post dated October 5, 2009. www.barbaradelinsky.com/blog




Here is how Barbara described this colorway when she first saw it, "Flares of fuschsia, copper and plum in the shadow of a sapphire night, forest green and teal."

Spring Eclipse is available in all of our yarns. If you would like to order this exciting new colorway contact your local yarn store and ask them about it. If they haven't heard about it yet have them contact us. We are going to start dyeing soon. Then you can knit Spring Eclipse and read Not My Daughter at the same time!!

Sally Melville's Faux Fur Hat

Sally Melville is such an amazing knitter. She always has a new, clever idea. This time she came up with a technique she calls knit-weave and to demonstrate this technique she designed a hat!!

Won't this hat make a great winter accessory? I just read that the Farmer's Almanac is predicting a very cold, stormy winter. Why not knit one for yourself or someone on your gift list so you are ready when the temperature starts dropping!! You need 1 skein of Mountain Colors Moguls and 1 skein of Mountain Colors 3-ply wool. They can be in the same colorway or in two different colorways.

And the BEST part is the hat is completely reversible. Sally asks that you please where the hat straight across the forehead at about your eyebrows!

Happy knitting!

Portland Rose Bearfoot NOW available

Portland Rose Bearfoot was the Mountain Colors entry into the Sock Summit/Ravelry Dye for Glory contest. It was very well received in Portland at Sock Summit and now all of you who couldn't attend that show can order some too!

The color comes only in Bearfoot yarn and we welcome special orders through any of the Special Orders shops listed on our website. Or contact your local yarn store and have them order some! It is great for socks, sweaters (held singly or doubled), baby clothes, etc. Don't miss out on this fun new colorway!

Have a wonderful August and happy knitting!!

Sock Summit/Ravelry Dye for Glory contest

Portland Rose

This is our entry into the dyed sock yarn contest being held right now on Ravelry. The voting is open and our yarn is in the Painted category. If you are a member of Ravelry you can go there now to vote. www.ravelry.com/socksummit The yarn will be for sale at Sock Summit in several different booths and later in August it will be available to everyone!

We called the yarn Portland Rose as it is inspired by the many rose gardens of Portland. This is also where Sock Summit is being held in early August.

We hope everyone is having a great summer!

Leslie & Diana

We are back from TNNA

We are home from the trade show in Columbus, OH. Whew. That is always a busy 5 days of travel, setting up a 40 foot booth, visiting with shop owners, designers, publishers, booth tear down and wonderful dinners in nice restaurants! It is great to be home.

We introduced a new design that was VERY well received. It's the Sock Stash Hoodie. It uses two strands of sock yarn...one of Mountain Colors Bearfoot in the main color and then 1 to 4 different colors of sock yarn from your stash. It has cute cabled ribbing and zips up the front. Be sure to check it out.

Our new colorways were also well received. These newest colors are:

Peppergrass-Teals, Peacock, Deep blue and a splash of Lime green

Indian Paintbrush (new retro)-Orangey red, pinkish red, true red and a dash of dark purple..not sure why picture is so small

Heather-Subtle blend of Mauve, Plum, & Chocolate

Cedar-Chocolate browns, Raspberry, Burgundy and Teal

Copper Mountain-Copper with Violet, Blue, Teal and Raspberry

New River Twist colors:
Bear Creek : Chocolate with touches of Copper, Teal & Rose
Canyon Ferry : Fun mix of Navy, Marigold, Violet, Raspberry & Teal
Rosebud River : Rich blend of Sienna Reds, Copper, Dusty Green and Plum
Salmon Falls : Subtle blend of Plums, Rose, Mauve & Chocolate
Sundance Springs: Wild blend of Yellow, Lime Green, Purple, Blue and Pink

Check out these latest additions on our website!

Happy knitting to all!!

Leslie & Diana

Trendy Triangle Shawl

We are off to TNNA on June 11 and hope to see many of the shop owners who are attending. We are excited to show them our new colors, designs, etc. This past week we have been busy packing and shipping the contents of our booths and trying to get some last minute dyeing finished before we leave.

One of our sales reps, Andra Asars, has a beautiful and VERY popular triangular shawl design using one 12 oz hank of our Wool Crepe. It is called the Trendy Triangle Shawl and can be found at www.andra-asars.com then click on For Knitters. After that go to Free Patterns. She is letting us borrow the shawl for our TNNA booth. It is so simple to make but in the Wool Crepe the finished shawl has such a nice drape. A smaller version can be made with one Half Crepe. Check it out!!!

Happy knitting to all!!

Leslie & Diana

Bearfoot Now in Pastels!!

We ARE listening!! After a large number of requests and much discussion about dyeing techniques we have decided to offer our Bearfoot yarn in ALL of our colorways, including pastels. In the past we did not offer this yarn in the lighter colors as there is a marbled/frosted effect with lighter colors. Knitters have told us they don't mind these lighter highlights so....effective immediately these yarns are available. Keep in mind that our Bearfoot yarn takes the color a bit darker than any of the other yarns we have so our pastel Bearfoot is lighter than our other colors but it is not extremely pale!!

It may take your local shops awhile to get the colors in stock so if you contact your shop for a Special Order don't forget to mention you read this NEW information in our blog!! We don't mind Special orders and we can fill your special order quickly!! We can then send the yarn to your local shop or drop ship it to you if the store isn't nearby.

The lady who knit the socks in the photo above said these were the "most beautiful socks" she has ever knit!! Wow. That was sure nice to hear! We hope you will love this yarn as much as she did!

Happy knitting,
Leslie & Diana