Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

I have been given the green light to start previewing the new Spud & Chloë patterns for the upcoming season. I will be previewing the patterns and more of the new yarn colors over the next couple of weeks. I am so excited about all of it and I hope you will be, too. The new patterns and yarn colors will all be available at your local yarn shops and online yarn shops in mid-June. That is coming up quick.

I thought I would start today with one of my new patterns for the upcoming collection. It is called the Buga Baby Bunting and is knit up in the ever-scrumptious Outer in the Cornsilk colorway. It is a little snuggle sack for a new baby! The ears on the hood only add to the sweetness.

I love the photo for the pattern. That tiny pink foot peeking out is the best! Delicious.

I took some quick photos of the snuggle sack before I sent it off to the Spud & Chloë headquarters. It is such a cute and fast knit in the super bulky weight yarn. I used US size 15 needles at 2 stitches per inch. Speedy. I left the bottom open for ease when buckling the baby in a car seat.

The body is knit in one piece and set aside. Then the hood is knit and grafted to the body. The ribbed edging is picked up after.

To keep things simple I added an easy bobble and loop for a closure. You could easily add a securely attached button here instead if you’d like. It’s up to you.

The Outer is a squishy treat to knit with. It makes me want to dive in every time. Love it!!

The Collector wanted to keep the bunting for her baby but it had to go. Her baby doll is a true newborn size. The bunting fits a newborn baby with lots of wiggle room and will fit up to about a 3 month old baby. It is a swaddle sack and babies older than that may find it a bit of a squeeze.

What a great go-to gift for the new baby in your life! In a few short hours you can whip up the Buga Baby Bunting and have the perfect hand-knit gift.

There is lots of inspiration to come through the new colors and patterns.

I’ll be back soon with more!

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

What a beautiful Saturday morning it is. I have spent much of the morning knitting away. It’s been so peaceful even with a house full of kids and visiting cousins under our roof. This is the view from my chair today. I love how my daughter leaves her baby doll in my studio to keep me company. Strangely enough the doll does keep me company because she makes me think of my daughter while she is at school. It’s kind of funny.

I am having so much fun making these little mix and match baby mitts out of Spud & Chloë Sweater. You recognize those colors, right? Those are still the leftovers from the Dream Catcher Baby Blanket. Originally I thought about making some booties out of the leftovers but then I remembered the Jelly Bean Baby Socks. Those tiny socks are perfect for using up odds and ends of Sweater. Instead I thought I would add some sweet and simple baby mitties, the kind without thumbs. My babies wore these kind of mitts all of the time. You could easily knit the blanket, the hat, the mitts (coming soon) and the baby socks using up the leftovers from the blanket Sweater yarn. That would add up to make one incredible baby gift.

I’ll be back soon with the pattern for you. Have a good weekend everyone!

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

A few weeks ago I asked you all what you were knitting with Spud & Chloë yarns. I heard from a lot of knitters and I’ve pointed out a few but Andrea Hungerford pretty much takes the cake! Her blog is called, On Blueberry Hill and you can find out more of her project details over there. I want to share a few of her Spud & Chloë projects with you today. Above she used 6 skeins of Outer in the Soapstone colorway to whip up this gorgeous baby blanket.

Andrea used our Jelly Bean Sweater yarn to make the Tea Party Cardi. I want to make one of these for myself someday. I love it.

Above Andrea used Sweater to knit the little sweater called, Chloe. It’s so sweet.

She also knitted the medium version of the Three Brrrr Bears in Sweater yarn. What a great job, Andrea.

Here Andrea knitted up a set that includes a scarf, fingerless mitts, and the Flap Happy Hat. It looks like she took the waffle stitch used in the hat and transferred it into the other items. These are all shades of Sweater and this is the original colorway I knitted the sample in. There is a photo of my original hat on the pattern page on our site. Love it!

Patriotic baby socks? You bet! Andrea used up bits and pieces of her leftover Spud & Chloë Sweater yarn to whip up a bunch of Jelly Bean Baby Socks.

After sharing all of these fantastic projects this is Andrea’s final note in her email:

I’ve knit many more Spud & Chloë projects, including the track jacket, lovey dovey top, playground
hoodie, and lots from Itty Bitty Toys – all on my blog:
http://web.me.com/andrea.hungerford/On_Blueberry_Hill/Welcome.html

Keep it up with the wonderful feeling yarn, wonderful colors, and
wonderful patterns – I can’t wait to knit more Spud & Chloe!

Sincerely,
Andrea Hungerford

Well, thank you, Andrea, for taking the time to share with me so I can share your knitting with all of the readers here. That is some good, good knitting and I can tell that you are having fun.

In the meantime, I finished an adorable little baby hat using up some of the leftovers from the Dream Catcher Baby Blanket. I’ll be back shortly to share this fun pattern with you.

Hi Spud & Chloë Friends,

I want to give you a tiny sneak peek at a few of the new and exciting colorways for the Spud & Chloë yarns today. As always, much thought and consideration goes into each and every color for our yarn line. We had a couple of threads running on Ravelry about colors people would like to see added to the line. There were discussions and test runs conducted. Anyway, all of this boils down to these new colors:

In the Fine, we’re introducing 7814 Shitake and 7815 Red Hot!

In the Outer, there’s 7210 Hedge, 7211 Rocket, and 7212 Sandbox!

In the Sweater, we’ve added 7515 Cider and 7516 Grape Jelly!

All of the new colors will be available in June 2010 so keep your eyes peeled. To go along with the color additions we are adding lots of new and fun patterns for Spud & Chloë as well. The big kick-off is at TNNA in Columbus, Ohio, so if you are attending please be sure to stop by to check everything out. If you aren’t attending TNNA, no worries, I will keep you updated right here on Spud says!

I’ll be sharing more previews on the yarn and the patterns coming up soon. Plus, we are quickly coming up on our first year anniversary which is hard to believe. We have some fun things cooking to help us celebrate. It has been an amazing year, better than we could have imagined.

The best part is that we have only just begun.