Today’s post is devoted to the lovely company, Pollika. They sell high quality crafting materials that they search the world for. Some of their lovely products include undyed natural luxury yarns from Yarnundyed, beautiful handcrafted shawl pins, and wool roving and felt from De Witte Engel.

They also carry adorable felt doll kits! Collect them all from Four Seasons Dolls and Flowerchildren.

Follow Pollika on Facebook, Twitter and their blog.

We are very pleased to have Premier Yarns as an advertiser for the Colorwork 2013 issue. Premier offers a wide selection of yarns, from luxe and novelty to everyday use yarns, all for very affordable prices.

Starbella Flash is a fun yarn that Premier offers. A combination of acrylic and metallic, this fun yarn adds frill and glitz to your project. And now it is on sale for only $6.99/ball!

Today’s spotlight is on Chris deLongpre and her designs at Knitting at KNoon. We were very lucky to have one of Chris’ adorable toy designs in our Summer 2011 anniversary issue, and I have been a fan ever since. I must say that I really love her Bird designs (Feathers), especially the flamingo and the crazy blue bird with the rainbow “feathers”.

Photograph by Chris de Longpre:
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/skipper-and-crew

Look at this adorable duo! Skipper and Crew! For ages 2-4. You can find the pattern online at Jimmy Beans Wool or Patternfish.

Today’s spotlight focuses on The Icelandic Knitter, the first online Icelandic knitting magazine created by Helene Magnusson. Her magazine is full of tradition, but with a modern twist. Helene believes that the best way to preserve traditions is to continue to use them, giving them life.

Helene has recently written a book, “Icelandic handknits: 25 heirloom projects and techniques.” (Voyageur Press) inspired by the knitted artifacts in the Textile Museum in Iceland. You will read my review of the book in our upcoming issue, going live in a couple weeks. She is also hosting a knitting tour that will go to the Textile Museum and explore the book. You can read about the knitting tour here. Doesn’t it sound fabulous?

We have been very lucky to have Loop as a long time supporter of Petite Purls. The company has a beautiful brick and mortar shop in Philadelphia and the online shop carries beautiful yarns and patterns.

Photo originally from Loopknits blog post:
http://www.loopknits.com/2013/04/22/wave-blanket-kits/

Something that recently caught my eye was their blog post on their Wave Blanket Kits.  Using Blue Sky Alpacas’ (another of our favorites!) Worsted Cotton, you can create the most beautiful baby blanket (or larger).

Loop carries many Petite Purls favorites such as Blue Sky Alpacas, Spud and Chloe, Madelinetosh and Brooklyn Tweed, among others.

We have been so lucky to have Sweet Georgia Yarns as a Petite Purls sponsor for quite a while. Felicia Lo’s yarns are gorgeous, with their richly saturated colors and luxe fibers. We have had a number of patterns for the magazine knit in Sweet Georgia Yarns, and more to come in our upcoming Superhero issue. Let’s look at some of the patterns, shall we?

In our current issue, Colorwork, Sweet Georgia is beautifully used in Holli Yeoh’s Lady Emmeline.

Holli used Sweet Georgia Tough Love Sock, which is a superwash yarn (enticing, isn’t it?). Felicia’s yarns have such generous yardage that you only need one skein for the main color and one skein for the contrasting color for most of the sizes offered. Don’t you just love this color combination? Goldmine and Amethyst.

Also, our Knit 2 Together design, by Kate Oates, Polka Dot Spots:

Isn’t Baby O adorable?

Kate used Sweet Georgia Superwash Worsted for her set.

From our Spring 2012 issue, we have the fantastic Soledad by Annika Barranti. I love this sweater!

This time Sweet Georgia Superwash DK was used in the Bison colorway. I am currently using this yarn in an upcoming design for the magazine (!!) and I am loving it. And I cannot reiterate enough just how amazing Felicia’s color palette is. You cannot go wrong.

We have two designs in our upcoming issue that will use Sweet Georgia Yarns, so be on the lookout for more deliciousness! Thank you Sweet Georgia for your continued support.

Baby Sleeper by Helen Rose

Girls Cardigan by Sara Elizabeth Schmidt

Click on the pictures!

Please email us at infoATpetitepurlsDOTcom for more information.

Issue 14

As we gear up to publish our next issue, we wanted to send congratulations to the winner of our great Phoebe’s Birthday giveaway!

Angie Smith!

Angie, I have sent you an email. Please get back to us soon so we can have all your great goodies sent right away.

Many thanks to Joanna Johnson for this generous giveaway.

Thanks to all of our readers for their comments, we will keep them in mind and will continue to bring you great patterns and other fun things in our magazine.