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Kat's Riverside Studio 2nd annual Pre-order Advent Yarn Calendar.  
Available at 9am EST Monday July 12.

Stephanie Earple the Montreal knitwear designer has just published another gorgeous sweater. Clade is a classy top down yoke sweater that uses a variation on a smock stitch. The result is luxurious top for a special occasion. I love the combination of kidsilk base and a variegated silk yarn smock stitch. The possible combinations are endless. As soon as we heard from Stephanie that this pattern would be published and it used our silk fingering we got to work dyeing up beautiful combinations. Check them out in the Shop under Limited Editions. There are very limited quantities of each colour. It is one of the few bases...

We have just added some incredibly luxurious Kidsilk Lace in fun and popular speckled colourways. Soft and light as a cloud, the silk gleaming through the haze of mohair this yarn epitomizes luxury. One of my favourite projects that would work perfectly for this yarn is Birds of a Feather a gorgeous shawl by Andrea Mowry. Another shawl pattern I have in my Ravelry queue is Down by the River by Virginia Sattler Reimer. All that is needed is one skein of a nice variegated fingering weight yarn like Cobalt and Rust with one of Fen in Kidsilk.One pattern I will definitely be knitting this...

Welcome to Riverside Studio’s  brand new beautiful website. I hope you will find it easy to navigate, and full of inspiration for your knitting, crocheting or weaving projects. It’s been a long time in the making and even though there is still some tweaking to be done we’ve decided to get it up and live. To celebrate we want to thank you, our customers, with a launch week special. For every purchase of yarn made in our new shop from February 21 until and including February 27 we will include a special surprise gift. I promise it will be a...