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Yes, MORE ARAN designs coming your way, this time from Martin Storey in his  "Easy Aran Knits" This design collection uses two Aran weight yarns.... Rowan's Fine Art Aran - now with 6 tonal shades added to the 8 hand painted original shades; and the new Super Fine Merino Aran - in a range of 12 sophisticated solids! The designs in this collection are classed as "easy", but that doesn't mean they are plain or heaven forbid, boring! "Clayton"  teams the casual sweatshirt style  (neckline detail, raglan sleeves... and a hand warmer pocket),  with the new "Super Fine Merino Aran" (Dusk 013) to reach a whole new level of casual sophistication! "Woolley"   is another "easy" raglan design,  with a knit/purl textured  allover check pattern. It is shown here in Fine Art Aran (Squirrel 002) "Saltaire" is a long "Coatigan" with side slit  deep bottom rib  and handy front b...

If you love knitting Aran weight yarn, you are spoilt for choice this season!  Rowan is introducing two new Aran weight yarns! First up - Hemp Tweed! Yes, HEMP! (75% wool, 25% hemp) I loved knitting with this....look at the soft tweed effect, beautiful stitches, a light feeling Aran! Another "breathable" combination....and the hemp keeps the knitted fabric from stretching out, while naturally softening with wear. Hemp sounds like a pretty amazing addition to wool (my favourite fibre). I LOVED knitting with this yarn (Yes, I know I've already said that!), so much that I'll be doing a bit of an "acid test" on it to see just how much I love it! (I've said it before, and I'll say it again....buy a ball of yarn, take it home, swatch with it, wash it, block it, rub it up a bit....see how it reacts. Is this a yarn you can live with? If it is, then it is worthy of your knitting time.) I'd buy this collection of designs by Lisa ...

Then you will love this new new design collection by Martin Storey...12 super easy, super stylish garments, knit in DK yarn! This design collection introduces not 1 but 2 new DK yarns to the Rowan yarn collection! PURE WOOL SUPERWASH DK A dk version of Pure Wool Worsted Superwash, this DK version is introduced with a colour family of 32 shades! (including 10 new heathers) It's 100% wool, and would be a hard wearing yarn for those family members you know that love your sweaters, but maybe don't always remember to take care of them like they should? (Everyone has one of those in their family right?) This yarn would be fabulous for kids wear and for homeware projects too! This yarn is Spun in Romania, as is it's cousin, Pure Wool Worsted.) and....for those who love a bit of luxury... SUPER-FINE MERINO DK This season Rowan introduces a line of "super fine" merino yarns! Super Fine means that the merino fibre is less than 18 microns...only 5% of me...