Happy long weekend! What are you knitting over Labor Day?

I’m working on this:

I like it so much that I even used it in my new header image!

This yarn is really special…it’s my first custom colorway! I worked with Cat (Craftsy‘s awesome yarn buyer, crochet goddess, and all-around wonderful human) and Jeannie of Fiesta Yarns to come up with what we think is a gorgeous series of colors for fall.

Craftsy’s working on a really fun series of Designer Custom Colors with a few well-known, high-end yarn companies. Fiesta Yarns Boomerang is the first in the series, and the yarn is gorgeous, soft, silky (and superwash.)  The color has so much depth, it just seems to glow from the inside out.  I’ve been working on this sweater for just about a week…you can tell that I’m loving it…look how far I am already!!

Since I’ve never designed a custom colorway before, I decided to start with a theme:  SPICES.

We had one cooler week here in Denver, when I was able to really start thinking about FALL.  Fall to me is a time to get back to cooking.  (Our house doesn’t have central air, so I don’t do a ton of cooking in the summer.) I love the way the whole house smells when I’m baking bread, making cookies, and have  stew in the crock pot all at once! To me, the spicy aromas, whether sweet or savory, really signal fall.

I found gorgeous images of three spices (saffron, cinnamon, and cloves) and sent them to Jeannie with a little description of each one.  And this is what she sent back:

This yarn is lucky that I haven’t gobbled it up! It’s so tasty-looking!

The colors are rich and luscious, and are exactly how I imagined they’d be.  Thanks, Fiesta and Craftsy! This is so amazing!

I’ll keep you posted about the sweater!