Mirasol Free Downloads!

The new season for Mirasol Yarns has brought some new shades in the lovely yarns. Firstly there is Nuna with it's great new bright shades:

These can be used with the free download pattern that uses one hank of 3 of the shades but can be usedwith one shade or many shades, the choice is yours!

The pattern is available here.

Magical Sulka Shades

The beautiful thing about some of the Mirasol shades is that they are spun with several different colours, which means that every time I knit with them I see another colour shining through. This changes again if you knit the shade with another shade. So for example, theses two shades (sea Green 223 and Steel Blue 233) are being knitted together in a stripe, and they take on another magical colour! It's addictive!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Happy New Year to all the Mirasol knitters old and new!

If you haven't tried Mirasol Yarns before, I hope you can pop along to your local yarn store and feel the fabulous fibres, they are truly gorgeous to knit with.

Ushya & Sulka Book 27

For those that are asking, here is an image of Ushya & Sulka Book 27 by Jane Ellison.

It is perfect for making last minute Christmas gifts from as it only takes one or two hanks of Ushya or Sulka, which are chunky yarns so will quickly knit up.

Or for those beginners there is still enough days left to make one gift for a loved one.

Ushya and Sulka

Hello, it's Jane Ellison and I design for the Mirasol Collection.

The Mirasol Yarn Collection has some of the finest and most luxurious yarns in the world! (I am of course totally biased, but I can't help it they are sooooo gorgeous to knit with.)

It is difficult when you see a new yarn to know what it is like to knit with, as I find many yarns feel different when knitting. Sometimes a yarn hangs differently to how you expect.

I love the Sulka and Ushya and once people start knitting with it they too become addicted. So I designed the Ushya and Sulka Book 27 with the majority of projects only taking one or two hanks....so that I could share with knitters how addicted the lovely yarns are!

In the book I only had a limited amount of pages to include images but I knitted so many more, for example in the book the Hapa Cowl is knitted in Sulka but I also knitted one in Ushya using 10mm needles.

I have favourite shades, but I realise everyone has different favourites, so at one of my knitting gatherings I asked a 20 year old friend there what her favourite shades were, this is what she chose in Ushya....

Images

Firstly, thank you everyone how has contacted me to let me know the images are not working. They seem to work on some computers and not others. I am trying to solve this as quickly as I can. Thank you for your patience.

It is so exciting to finally get images from the school, it has taken a while but now we have them I need to work it out how to share them with everyone and not a few of you!

I'm hoping this one works, it is some of the drawings from the children. Aren't they amazing?!

The Children's Daily Lives

It is extremely important to all those involved with the Mirasol Project that any education programmes introduced are relevant to the area and respectful of the indigenous culture.

Aside from the formal education, here are some pictures of what else the children do in their days:

Every Monday morning they start with putting up their flag:

They tidy the gardens around the school and cut the fresh herbs:

Every Grade has a portion of land that is it's own to look after and grow plants in:

It's a fun way to learn!