On the blog last week Carol showed us what is currently on her needles so I thought I would pop in and say hello and tell you a little bit about the projects I made with Nua.

First of all, I love Nua, yes OK I’m biased but I would have loved Nua if I had never heard of Carol or Stolen Stitches. A few months ago, Carol sent me some yarn with no label and asked me to knit a chevron cowl. I’m always cold and I love cowls. I can never have enough of them. Carol was in the design stages of  Boherboy and I happily knit it up in the August Storms colourway of Nua.  

I loved how the yarn moved on my needles. It was a double win for me as I had just received my new Hiya Hiya needles in the post so I got to try my new needles with new yarn. It was heaven. Initially, I was really worried about washing and blocking the cowl because when the yarn got wet, it starts to look skinny and I got scared. I thought I had knit everything too loose and I was really, really close to the deadline that Carol needed the sample for. Fear not, the next morning the cowl had fluffed up nicely and was ready to send back to Carol. Of course, I did what any knitter would do and tried it on first and took lots of pictures. The cowl draped nicely on my neck and it fits right inside the collar of my coat so I can whip this boy out on the beach and enjoy chill free walks.

Then the launch came and I got to hold all of the colourways at EYF and then again at This Is Knit. The Bare Necessities skein was following me around. You know what I’m talking about when you walk into a yarn shop and suddenly there is a skein in your hand, you put it back but when you get to the till it magically appears back in your hand begging to come home with you. Yip, true story.

So, I got chatting to Carol again as I was looking for a particular type of cardigan to go with a certain dress and I loved Akoya. I told her I was thinking about knitting Akoya in Nua and she was as excited as I was, to see it worked up.

I got the yarn and the pattern and I started knitting. I loved Boherboy but my word the ribbing of Nua was a delight. That’s saying a lot because I hate ribbing. The density of the ribbing is delicious quite frankly and since last week I have managed to work the trellis section on the back. I think it’s especially beautiful, don’t you?
 
If you want to follow along I will be posting my progress in the Nua thread in the Stolen Stitches Raverly group here. If you have an FO in Nua why not post it in the Nua FO board, it can be any pattern but it needs to be Nua yarn.
 
I can’t wait to see what all of you get up to!
 
Nadia
Pssst – Fancy a discount? Carol has a discount code for the I-Cord Collection over here. If you use code ICORDMAGIC you’ll get 20% off all the patterns until the 2nd of May. Go enjoy!