When we planned our collaborations for the new book, we knew merging the adventurous and kaleidoscopic stitches of Stephen West with the rich colours of Madelinetosh would result in something remarkable. Plus, we have a bonus custom colour in this design: ‘Ghost’ from Orkney Angora. The result? A cosy shawl that is a squishy delight of brioche!
Make sure to read to the end of the blog to find out how you can pre-order our new book, plus how two of you lovely readers can win all the yarn you need to make Stephen’s shawl! (Competition now closed- but we’ll have lots more in the future!)
Paving the way for knitters with his innovative and modern knitting designs, Stephen West’s patterns can be recognised by their use of colour and clever texture. His new pattern ‘Meandering’ for our new book is no exception, so we had to find out more about the process behind it.
Hi Stephen! What were your initial ideas and plans for your design?
I definitely wanted to do something with the two-color brioche stitch. Brioche stitch looks so sophisticated. You don’t have to add extra texture or complex shaping to make the ribbed fabric look amazing so I kept the design simple with zig zag increases and scalloped border. I love mixing fibers and I was so pleased with the fuzzy angora on one side and the slick Tosh on the other side.
Stephen West and Madelinetosh for Loop. Photo by Kristin Perers
Any brioche tips for knitters who are trying this shawl to learn more about the technique?
To quote Nancy Marchant, the queen of brioche, “Don’t make any mistakes.” It took me a couple brioche projects before I became comfortable fixing my mistakes like the occasional dropped yarn over so if brioche is a new technique for you, make a headband or hat to start and then move onto a bigger shawl like this design. Nancy Marchant has excellent books (Loop stocks two of them, which will be back in stock soon!) and Loop also has a brioche class coming up in November – check out the details here)Orkney Angora in Loop’s custom colours (L-R) Plum Stain, Ghost, Magical Goose
Orkney Angora is so fluffy and soft! I love the halo after washing this yarn and the colours are so rich. Tosh Merino Light will always be one of my favourite yarns. It’s smooth and easy to knit and the colours are illuminating.
What other yarn combinations or variations on your shawl would you recommend?
I think a larger DK weight version would be fabulous! Three skeins each of two colours of The Uncommon Thread BFL DK.
Wool Folk Tynd (new to Loop and coming this September) would also make an incredibly fluffy soft brioche shawl.
You often make a trip to Loop when you are in London, how do you make the most of your visit?
I always love visiting Loop and making a day out of it. No trip to Loop is complete without eating at The Breakfast Club down the street and enjoying a new bag (or two) full of yarn.
Thanks Stephen!
We also sell Stephen’s books and single patterns if you fancy trying your hand (and indeed needles) at some Westknits fun!
Stephen’s shawl pairs Orkney Angora with the smooth single ply of Madelinetosh Merino Light. And as the yarn has arrived a little earlier that expected, it will be the first custom colour that you can purchase! The Merino Light in ‘London Cosmopolitan’ is in stock now, and by early September it will also be available in Tosh Sock, Home, Merino DK, Pashmina, Prairie and Vintage.
We caught up with founder of Madelinetosh Amy Hendrix, to discover more about the process behind our new custom colour ‘London Cosmopolitan’
Hi Amy!Tell us a little bit about how ‘Madelinetosh’ started.
Finding a full palette of colours in one yarn brand was difficult, ten years ago. Coming from a painting background I wanted to pick colorways like tubes of oil paint in an art store. I wanted twelve gradations of red and a whole host of neutrals to play with for pairing; I couldn’t find that so I made it. Google and a library card allowed me to learn how to dye. We were a young family with little money to spare, so I found great books in which I was able to study and absorb the different approaches to applying colour. It was the process of application that was so mystical to me, because that is where the true magic happened.
I dyed a few batches of yarn in my kitchen and posted it on Etsy while my toddler was napping; someone in Oregon bought it and the cycle grew from there. I built up my nerve to approach my local yarn store and practiced my pitch in front of my two-year old. Thankfully, they took some skeins on consignment and I had officially landed my first wholesale account. Now Madelinetosh Hand Dyed Yarns is currently stocked in more than 200 different colourways and supplied to over 800 retailers around the world including the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan.
What was the inspiration behind the colour, and then how did you create the shade?
Susan’s photo! Susan emailed us a photo for colour inspiration (cocktail photo below) and it was our job to take that photo and bring it to life in skein form for her, thus translating the colour that inspired Susan from one visual format to another. I wanted to create something that matched Loop’s style and sophistication.Cocktail Colour Inspiration – Photo Copyright of Adam Rompe
For us and our lead dyer Hortencia now it is the challenge of making that translation from one art medium to another that is fun in custom colour projects like these. A colour that may read as peach in a photograph on paper will translate completely differently on a creamy fibre base, knowing how to bridge that gap in terms of colour is the key. If peach as a colour rests on the surface when applied to paper but is soaked up into a fibre when applied to its surface you know that your subtle peach may translate to a light or medium orange in application on your denser fibre. So you throw orange in the dye pot, but after, steam, water, rinsing and drying a soft peach on your dry and fresh wool emerges. Colour and its infinite translations is what has always kept me up at night, I’m sure it always will as I am still learning its secrets.
Adam Rompel’s original recipe/ image that inspired the colour has now been developed into a custom cocktail for Loop – Loopka! Recipe will be in our new book. Photography by Kristin Perers
Do you have any plans to knit yourself anything in this colourway?
An undisclosed Madtosh employee kept a few skeins from the original shipment and made the most beautiful cowl with this colourway, she knit a simple garter stitch pattern but on oversized needles so it creates a soft and scrunchy fabric, every time I see it at the office I think I need one as well, it’s so brilliantly simple but functional.
If you could chose one yarn that Loop stocks (other than your own!) what would it be?
Anything tweed! London and Loop are so fortunate to have direct access to so much incredible fibre from all over the U.K., of course I could drool for hours of the intricacies of the colours in Jamieson’s but it is also inspiring to see the fibre works of talents like Eden Cottage on the shelves as well.
My memories of Loop go back to teaching on some very chilly days in London. I walked into the cozy shop and was led downstairs into what we call the basement and a table full of students, it was hard to pass up all the delicious yarns upstairs tucked in every nook and cranny!
So, after building up so much suspense over the past few weeks, we’re happy to announce that we will now be taking pre-orders for the book! A collaboration between Loop and a whole host of knittings most talented designers and dyers, it’s the perfect way to celebrate 10 years of Loop.
Not only will you be one of the first to receive our gorgeous new publication, early birds who pre-order before 1st September will get a 10% discount! Order through the online shop and your purchase will already be discounted to our pre-order price of £18. Our anniversary book will include all the patterns you’ve been reading about on the blog (plus one or two more that we are yet to reveal!) and a download code so you can access your own PDF copy of the book.
And as we were feeling extra generous we are giving two lucky winners the chance to win all the yarn you need to make Stephen’s shawl! Two balls of fluffy Orkney Angora in ‘Ghost’ and one scrumptious skein of Madelinetosh Merino Light in the new shade ‘London Cosmopolitan’ are up for grabs, and there are two ways to enter. Either leave a comment below letting us know what your favourite Madelinetosh colour is, or head to our instagram account LoopLondonLoves and follow the instructions detailed on our Tosh/Orkney Angora picture to enter.
(Competition now closed- but we’ll have lots more in the future!)
We’ll be choosing one winner at random from the blog, and one winner at random from Instagram, so you are welcome to enter yourself for the competion via both! The giveaway closes at midnight GMT on Wednesday 29th July and the winners will be notified next week on the blog.
Good Luck and Happy Knitting and Crocheting!
221 Comments on “Loop’s 10th Anniversary Plans – With Stephen West and Madelinetosh”
So hard to choose- Madelinetosh I s a colour-obsessive’s joy!
But has to be either Dustbowl – I adore greys & the nuances of other colours present in hand-dyer’s greys.
How do I choose!! I’m pretty sure I could find a use for every MTosh colourway in existence, but I guess when it really comes down to it, my absolute favourite would have to be Holi Festival. Nobody does speckles like Madelinetosh! Happy 10 years Loop!
I don’t think anybody who knows me online or in RL will be surprised that Coquette is my favourite TML colour! However, Veera and Joji’s Mockingly is a very close second :)
Difficult to choose! I quite like rose, but some friends gave me a skein in Holi Festival for my birthday and I’ve fallen in love with it and the way the colours are pooling on the socks I’m knitting with it.
The first Madelinetosh yarn I knit with was a Unicorn tail in Edison Bulb and it still is my favourite, It never fails at brightening up your day or knitwear lol!
Who wouldn’t want there knits to be lit up! x
There are so many to chose from, I try to pick new colours but I always seem to go back to the Celadon. I can’t wait for the release and will be putting my pre-order in, great giveaway, thanks for the chance.
My wedding is early next year and I am currently knitting a shawl for my big day; when my mum saw it she absolutely loved the idea. She is not a knitter so I am thinking of knitting a shawl for her as well (and this one from Stephen West is just right and exquisite !) so I would go for Madelinetosh in Celadon since her dress will very close to that shade.
By the way, I am using Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino Silk DK for the first sample of my wedding shawl, one of the Loop staff kindly suggested it and I have to say that I absolutely love it ! I am quite a traveller and wherever I go I have to visit the local yarn shops. Although I have a few favourites in the world, I have never seen anything like Loop and its super dedicated staff, definitely my favourite shop so far… so Happy 10th Anniversary and please please keep up the amazing job… you are simply a treat and a delight for us in the knitting community ! x
Looking forward for the release – what a wonderful collaboration !
As to madelinetosh, so difficult to choose.. But lately I’m into the pink spectrum so rose is the color of the season for me :-)
Oh exciting! To choose one favourite? Too much!!! I want to say celadon and winter wheat but if I must choose just one: POSY it is… Such soft delicate shades (as well as all the saturated lovelies too!!)
Rose is the quintessential colour. Its name conjures up images of a country garden while the slight colour variation hints at rain. The mind tingles with the memory of a rose’s fragrance. Then there’s the softness of the yarn which brings us to the delicacy of a rose’s petal, the source of the most splendid exotic jam. See that’s all five senses covered. Madeleinetosh Rose is perfection.
Pashmina in Baltic. Pashmina in almost any color actually and combos knitting 2 rows of one then 2 rows of another color creates a unique colorway all its own. Well done.
My favourite Madeline tosh colour is silver fox, for me it’s the perfect foil to play speckled colours across or to contrast with a chosen colour palette
I don’t think anyone could ever choose just ONE favourite Madelinetosh colour – they are all so gorgeous! I recently just bought some Dahlia and I can’t wait to knit with this lustrous purple :)
how can you love just one??? I’m a grey fanatic….and have knit with a whole bunch of them; love composition book, but think great grey owl might be my fav.
Pick one?! Somehow I always come back to antique lace, so pretty, and goes with everything… so excited about this pattern and yarn, I’ve joined the brioche fan club!
Favorite? Too difficult. Maybe Magnolia leaf or thyme or modern fair isle. I’m sure there are others but choosing just one is impossible.
Thank you for the interviews very interesting
I have just been rearranging my box of Tosh Sock and still whenever I come across the skein of Filligree my heart sings to match it up with so many other beauties. It is now a discontinued colour I believe so I shall have to keep this treasure to use sparingly for a highlight to finish off a shawl or crochet around a baby blanket. Thanks Amy for all the colours in my box!
I love all of the really bright colours, but have absolutely fallen for the new exclusive London Cosmopolitan, it is stunning. I may have to suspend my pain-induced knitting ban for this shade!
Favorite color of Madelinetosh – wow that’s hard – my current favorite palette is s Victorian with old gold, saturated blue and mouldy mauve – so I think ‘Begonia Leaf’ and ‘Baltic’ – it’s so hard to pick just one
oh so impossible to choose just one favorite (but i’m pretty sure London cosmopolitan is right there! it’s exquisite!) i made a cowl once with logwood and gossamer, it was my travel knit as we drove 3 weeks around namibia. everytime i took it out of my bag my husband and i both sighed, it seemed to glow, and the compliments these colors received over and over!
so excited for this book, i think i’ll wait to purchase it when i visit this october!! i can’t wait to come to LOOP!! and thank you so much for this gorgeous giveaway!! crossing fingers!! x
This is an easy one to answer! The only Madelinetosh colour I need is Begonia Leaf. This colour epitomizes the beauty of the Madelinetosh dyeing process and reminds me of a bygone era of glamour!
I’m really enjoying all the interviews in the run up to publication-thank you!
I think for the winter I’ld go for Tart-but as many have already said, there are so many Madtosh colours that I love. For this shawl Tart and a mid-grey fluffy yarn would be wonderful.
So happy I can pre-order the book! I’d love to be able to pre-order some of the bespoke yarns too… Glad to see a special Mad Tosh colourway. My fave colour is Fragrant. I’ve got three FO’s in this beautiful and complex pink:)
Oh, too hard a question to ask me on a Friday! I think it has to be Vintage Sari, or Vanilla Bean, or Posy, or Found Pottery. No, definitely, it is Vintage Sari. So wonderfully rich and evocative. Thank you!
Love a lot of the grey tones with blue, Ink is a close second but my choice of the moment is Sugarplum…great competition and can’t wait to browse your book full of wonder x
Choose just one favourite!! You must be joking. It took quite a while to narrow it down to two.Antique Lace conjours up images of dreamy vintage dresses but Twig carries me away to a forest of green. After much deliberation I’m going with Antique Lace.Can’t wait to see the book.
So many amazing colors, so hard to choose. I love the neutrals and Whiskers is a favorite. Thanks for the giveaway; can’t wait to receive my copy of “10”.
Bordegirl
Composition Book Grey is my favourite so far – I knitted a baby blanket with it and the way the colours changed with the lace pattern was amazing, I was transfixed as I knitted. :)
My favourite colour is always the one I’m working with – at the moment that’s Mineral, the most vibrant green imaginable, with a hundred different shades wrapped up into one.
Gosh, just the one? I love how the same colour can look so different in a different yarn base but if pushed to choose just one I would have to say Mica!
This is the hardest thing in the world, but I’d probably go for Georgia O’Keefe. In fact, I have a skein of it in TML that might just become Stephen’s shawl in September…
It’s impossible to pick just one colour of Madelinetoshes catalogue but at the moment my favourite is Neon Peach.
Love your bespoke colourway! Thanks for this opportunity!
Choosing your favorite Tosh color as easy as choosing between Cary Grant and George Clooney!!!!! But, if I have to pick it’s Betty Draper’s Blues! I keep using it and it never disappoints!!!
What lovely yarn !! I love the begonia leaf color
My favorite Madelinetosh color is ‘rose’.
I love cathedral
LOVE LOVE LOVE Neon Peach!
my favorite Madelinetosh colour is calligraphy… And magnolia leaf, coquette, …all in fact !
Composition book grey is my favorite, it is very difficult to choose only one!
So hard to choose- Madelinetosh I s a colour-obsessive’s joy!
But has to be either Dustbowl – I adore greys & the nuances of other colours present in hand-dyer’s greys.
Wow. I think that London Cosmopolitan might be a new favourite colour for me!
There are so many gorgeous colours of Madelinetosh but my favourite has to be Iris.
Unicorn Tails in Big Sur. Delicate seaweedy variations.
I love them all but would say the rose is my fave
My favourite Madtosh has to be steam age ….although mandala comes a close second!
My favourite Madelinetosh colour is “Cosmic Wonder Dust”
How do I choose!! I’m pretty sure I could find a use for every MTosh colourway in existence, but I guess when it really comes down to it, my absolute favourite would have to be Holi Festival. Nobody does speckles like Madelinetosh! Happy 10 years Loop!
Only ONE favorite madtosh color?!?
Well I’ll pick the first one I fell in love with–Holi Festival
I don’t think anybody who knows me online or in RL will be surprised that Coquette is my favourite TML colour! However, Veera and Joji’s Mockingly is a very close second :)
My latest favourite is Blue Nile!
Many many beauties to choose from …
but I love the seaside colours of Seawash
Difficult to choose! I quite like rose, but some friends gave me a skein in Holi Festival for my birthday and I’ve fallen in love with it and the way the colours are pooling on the socks I’m knitting with it.
Favourite from above is Kilm, but Cosmic Wander Dust is my all time fave. Not just because of the name, the colour is fantastic.
My favourite colour has to be Deep….love the intensity!
So beautiful! Tough to choose but I think Rose is my favourite…
The first Madelinetosh yarn I knit with was a Unicorn tail in Edison Bulb and it still is my favourite, It never fails at brightening up your day or knitwear lol!
Who wouldn’t want there knits to be lit up! x
My favourite colors are Wings, Silver Fox and Grapefruit, can’t decide which one is the most favourite :) love them all
Candlewick every time! The most fantastic rich yellow in existence.
I like the Madelinetosh colour Dirty Panther best :)
There are so many to chose from, I try to pick new colours but I always seem to go back to the Celadon. I can’t wait for the release and will be putting my pre-order in, great giveaway, thanks for the chance.
Just one color?! Might have to be Candlewick, the coolest mustard yellow out there! Stephen’s shawl looks amazing <3
I think London Cosmopolitan is my new favourite! Coral and peachy pinks that remind you of flamingoes are my cryptonite…
I’m also a big fan of Blackcurrant as it’s so lovely and rich.
I’m a sucker for boldness, so Pop Rock or Neon Bulb are my faves!
Favourite colour is daschund. It Is fab in merino light base.
I agree wit Lea, just one color? But I picked one I like the most at this moment and that is Calligraphy.
My wedding is early next year and I am currently knitting a shawl for my big day; when my mum saw it she absolutely loved the idea. She is not a knitter so I am thinking of knitting a shawl for her as well (and this one from Stephen West is just right and exquisite !) so I would go for Madelinetosh in Celadon since her dress will very close to that shade.
By the way, I am using Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino Silk DK for the first sample of my wedding shawl, one of the Loop staff kindly suggested it and I have to say that I absolutely love it ! I am quite a traveller and wherever I go I have to visit the local yarn shops. Although I have a few favourites in the world, I have never seen anything like Loop and its super dedicated staff, definitely my favourite shop so far… so Happy 10th Anniversary and please please keep up the amazing job… you are simply a treat and a delight for us in the knitting community ! x
Thank you so much for your kind words Olga! xx
Rose Rose Rose to start with!
My favourite is ‘Rose’. Love it.
I love Glazed Pecan
Lots of fave colours but I love Tart at the moment. Thinking about winter already.
This is torture, but I would choose ‘worn denim’ – it feels like an old friend.
I can’t wait to receive my book!
Hi, my favourite colour is Rose, but there are plenty more that I like.
Just one color?! Probably ink, I made my Celestarium shawl from it!
Sugarplum is my favorite but ….cosmic wonderdust…oh wait!smokey orchid….sigh…
Top Favourite (of so many favourites ) is Glazed Pecan. Looking forward to the book release, thanks for the competiton to win this super prize.
I think Sugarplum is my favourite colour. But lots of fave colours!
Difficult to choose but possibly Kilim today. Will probably change my mind by tomorrow though!
Mourning Dove :)
it has to be tart for me
I think Rose has to come first place for me! :)
My new favourite is the one for Loop! I love it and close second is the neon junkie one I just received from the summer club.
I love so many colours, it’s hard to choose one but I keep coming back to tart.
Oh: Venetian! Almost finished the back of my sous sous and the colour is just beautiful.
i love holi festival, lots of splashes of colour.
I ADORE the vibrance of Pop Rocks! I am a total fan of pink and the brightness of that shade is just incredible.
favorite color is Tannenbaum.
Looking forward for the release – what a wonderful collaboration !
As to madelinetosh, so difficult to choose.. But lately I’m into the pink spectrum so rose is the color of the season for me :-)
I love them all, but I think my favourite has to be Tart, it’s so deep and delicious.
favourite colour is the fluro rose . I’m currently wearing a sweater in a very similar shade
My fav is plunge…but I love the new custom color, too.
Oh exciting! To choose one favourite? Too much!!! I want to say celadon and winter wheat but if I must choose just one: POSY it is… Such soft delicate shades (as well as all the saturated lovelies too!!)
My favorite colour at the moment is ‘Dahlia’.
My favourite colour is mica
I LOVE KILM
Grasshopper is my absolute favourite. Fingers crossed
Rose is the quintessential colour. Its name conjures up images of a country garden while the slight colour variation hints at rain. The mind tingles with the memory of a rose’s fragrance. Then there’s the softness of the yarn which brings us to the delicacy of a rose’s petal, the source of the most splendid exotic jam. See that’s all five senses covered. Madeleinetosh Rose is perfection.
‘Begonia leaf’, lovely rich colour for winter
It has to be Cosmic Wonder Dust. It reminds me of looking into a bag of childhood penny sweets
so hard to pick just one favourite, but I love Baltic so very much, one of my favourite ever blues!
I love Candlewick :)
Not only do I always gravitate towards Magnolia when shopping, I simply cannot resist buying it over and over again.
It’s so hard to choose a favourite colour but since you’re putting me on the spot, I’ll have to say Nassau Blue!
I love the combination of composition
grey with rose.
Pashmina in Baltic. Pashmina in almost any color actually and combos knitting 2 rows of one then 2 rows of another color creates a unique colorway all its own. Well done.
My favourite Tosh colour is Cove <3
My favorite Madelintosh color is “Firewood”!
Lepidoptera is my favourite, it works beautifully as a pop of colour on a dark project.
Still Composition Book Grey for me. So pretty.
Turquoise. The blues and greens of peacocks, dragonflies, spring mallard drakes heads’ makes for dramatic shawls and striking jumpers.
My favourite Madeline tosh colour is silver fox, for me it’s the perfect foil to play speckled colours across or to contrast with a chosen colour palette
Steam age is my favorite. Can’t wait to get the book!
Has to be Kelp, but they are all so yummy!
My favourite colour is Calligraphy, it is like the inside of shells!
There are so many beautiful colours to choose from but my favourite has to be Mandala-I just love the mix of blues, purples and pinks.
Begonia Leaf is so rich
My favorite Madelinetosh color is ‘pop rocks’.
Love the Madelinetosh Merino Light, Kilm, Rose and Begonia Leaf! They are exquisite!!!!!
P.S. Happy 10th Anniversary!!!!!
I don’t think anyone could ever choose just ONE favourite Madelinetosh colour – they are all so gorgeous! I recently just bought some Dahlia and I can’t wait to knit with this lustrous purple :)
how can you love just one??? I’m a grey fanatic….and have knit with a whole bunch of them; love composition book, but think great grey owl might be my fav.
I have fallen in love with the new London Cosmopolitan shade-how delicious!!!!!!
I love Holi Festival – it fills you with joy just like the festival itself.
poprocks!!
Such an incredible colour Madeline Tosh wool! Delishhhhhh!
It’s got to be “rose” – I think it’s gorgeous
I love all shades of green and adore Grasshopper at the moment!
But all the colours are beautiful!!!
My favourite mad tosh colour is tart, though there are many others that are close seconds!
Nutmeg is making me wish for fall!
Pick one?! Somehow I always come back to antique lace, so pretty, and goes with everything… so excited about this pattern and yarn, I’ve joined the brioche fan club!
Picking a favorite colorway is nearly impossible, but I love the different colors and how they come together in Mandala!
So many beautiful colors! If I had to pick just one, though, it would be Logwood, although the Cosmopolitan is gorgeous!
They are all stunning! Vintage Sari is calling out to me..!
So hard to choose, but well water came into my head first, so that’s what I’ll go with.
I love the color “Venetian.” I just knit a lovely tam with it.
How wonderful I have preordered the book and can not wait I think my favourite shade is Dr Zhivago’s shy
Difficult to choose. Fragrant is one of my favourite colour.
All beautiful. I think it just might be the new one for Loop London cosmopoliton.
I love glazed pecan and have enough for a cardigan but haven’t got around to knitting it yet!
Favorite? Too difficult. Maybe Magnolia leaf or thyme or modern fair isle. I’m sure there are others but choosing just one is impossible.
Thank you for the interviews very interesting
The range of colours is just breathtaking, but I love the subtlety of ‘Mourning Dove’.
My favorite color is Molly Ringwald.
I have just been rearranging my box of Tosh Sock and still whenever I come across the skein of Filligree my heart sings to match it up with so many other beauties. It is now a discontinued colour I believe so I shall have to keep this treasure to use sparingly for a highlight to finish off a shawl or crochet around a baby blanket. Thanks Amy for all the colours in my box!
Mad Vintage Great Grey Owl is the most beautiful yarn imaginable!!
I love all of the really bright colours, but have absolutely fallen for the new exclusive London Cosmopolitan, it is stunning. I may have to suspend my pain-induced knitting ban for this shade!
Favorite color of Madelinetosh – wow that’s hard – my current favorite palette is s Victorian with old gold, saturated blue and mouldy mauve – so I think ‘Begonia Leaf’ and ‘Baltic’ – it’s so hard to pick just one
My favorite Madelinetosh color is Curiosity. But London Cosmopolitan is gorgeous…
Holi Festival! So happy and…ah…festive!
I can’t do it I just can’t – I currently am in love with the Victorian palette though, so ‘Begonia Leaf’ and yet oh it’s hard not to mention Baltic
My favorite tosh color is Fragrant! Such an amazing pink!
Venetian is lovely! Very sophisticated and I love all the names for the different shades.
I love antique lace
Magnolia Leaf. It’s one of those colours that make me smile.
I love them all but for me it has to be ‘Grasshopper’. It’s vibrant, fun, very now and just great!
They’re all quite lovely, but I’m currently quite fond of Mineral.
oh so impossible to choose just one favorite (but i’m pretty sure London cosmopolitan is right there! it’s exquisite!) i made a cowl once with logwood and gossamer, it was my travel knit as we drove 3 weeks around namibia. everytime i took it out of my bag my husband and i both sighed, it seemed to glow, and the compliments these colors received over and over!
so excited for this book, i think i’ll wait to purchase it when i visit this october!! i can’t wait to come to LOOP!! and thank you so much for this gorgeous giveaway!! crossing fingers!! x
Glazed pecan!
My favorite color is Lepidoptra; but the London Cosmopolitan looks delicious!
Dahlia is my favourite – not too pink, not too purple – a lovely fusion of the two. It works for both summer and winter.
Tough to choose, but I think it would have to be Fragrant.
Dahlia would be my favourite but so difficult to pick just one.
I can only choose one?!!!
Doctor Zhivago’s Sky, beautiful colour and one of my favourite books and film! Love love love the name.
I love Pop Rocks – just so vibrant!
My favourite Madtosh colour is Fathom.
I just love KILM.
This is an easy one to answer! The only Madelinetosh colour I need is Begonia Leaf. This colour epitomizes the beauty of the Madelinetosh dyeing process and reminds me of a bygone era of glamour!
I love Modern Fairisle!
Love bright warm colors and black. Love the ’14 Neon Peach. Sequoia and Citrus would be tied for second.
My favourite is Blue Nile.
I’m really enjoying all the interviews in the run up to publication-thank you!
I think for the winter I’ld go for Tart-but as many have already said, there are so many Madtosh colours that I love. For this shawl Tart and a mid-grey fluffy yarn would be wonderful.
What a lovely shawl and beautiful yarn and colours… I have to make sure to get me a copy of the book asap. ;)
So happy I can pre-order the book! I’d love to be able to pre-order some of the bespoke yarns too… Glad to see a special Mad Tosh colourway. My fave colour is Fragrant. I’ve got three FO’s in this beautiful and complex pink:)
My favourite is Mare, if I am to choose just one.
My favorite Madelinetosh color is espadrilles
Oh, too hard a question to ask me on a Friday! I think it has to be Vintage Sari, or Vanilla Bean, or Posy, or Found Pottery. No, definitely, it is Vintage Sari. So wonderfully rich and evocative. Thank you!
Wow how can you just pick one. If I could only have one it would have to be Purple Basil.
So hard to choose. My faves are the speckled colorways: Holi Festival. Cosmic Wunderlust. Optic and Modern Fair Isle. Dandelion too.
Love a lot of the grey tones with blue, Ink is a close second but my choice of the moment is Sugarplum…great competition and can’t wait to browse your book full of wonder x
Each one becomes my favourite as I scroll through the colours. At the moment my favourite is sugarplum.
I very Hard tarsk to choose just One. But edision bulb always makes med smile, so that must be the one.
I’ve really enjoyed knitting with Robin Red Breast.
That’s a tough one, today it’s Dahlia, but I might change my mind tomorrow!
Impossible to choose just one!! But When I’m looking for a neutral it’s got to be Whiskers.
Celadon! Favorite by far.
Tart was my first and still my favourite! So many colours are close seconds !
An oldie but goodie : Logwood !!!!
Whiskey Barrel is ahhhmazing
There are too many amazing colours which just pop but purple basil is absolutely beautiful.
Such a hard choice! I think I probably have composition book grey in every base
Choose just one favourite!! You must be joking. It took quite a while to narrow it down to two.Antique Lace conjours up images of dreamy vintage dresses but Twig carries me away to a forest of green. After much deliberation I’m going with Antique Lace.Can’t wait to see the book.
It`s got to be Esoteric – it`s all in the name!
So many amazing colors, so hard to choose. I love the neutrals and Whiskers is a favorite. Thanks for the giveaway; can’t wait to receive my copy of “10”.
Bordegirl
Lots of favourites including Fig which I have in my stash but I think it would be Kilm as it would be something new.
Composition Book Grey is my favourite so far – I knitted a baby blanket with it and the way the colours changed with the lace pattern was amazing, I was transfixed as I knitted. :)
My favourite colour is always the one I’m working with – at the moment that’s Mineral, the most vibrant green imaginable, with a hundred different shades wrapped up into one.
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So many fabulous colours, but right now Mica is top of my list.
Gosh, just the one? I love how the same colour can look so different in a different yarn base but if pushed to choose just one I would have to say Mica!
Chicory is my favorite right now. I love the pops of blue in the brown grey yarn. I think I have this in every weight!
This is the hardest thing in the world, but I’d probably go for Georgia O’Keefe. In fact, I have a skein of it in TML that might just become Stephen’s shawl in September…
OHHH! Madeline Tosh and Stephen West what a combo. I hope I’m the lucky winner.
Love so many of the colors but am especially fond of Mica.
That’s a tough question, but I really love Cosmic Wonder Dust! I hope I have the name right–the creamy base with the bright multicolored speckles.
I love Rose.
I love the London Cosmopolitan. Really into coral pink colours and this one is beautiful
Norway spruce…dark sea on a stormy day, I just love it !
Begonia leaf is just gorgeous.
Since I got to know Tosh Yarn, my absolute favorite color is “Weathered Frame” ♥
But a number of other colors follow very closely. ;)
It’s impossible to pick just one colour of Madelinetoshes catalogue but at the moment my favourite is Neon Peach.
Love your bespoke colourway! Thanks for this opportunity!
I have had Curiosity in my stash forever. Nothing is quite worthy.
So difficult! But cove must be my favourite. Xx
Aloha,
Mille grazie for the great give away.
Lots of great colours, but would have to say that Black Velvet caught my eye.
Mahalo.
It’s got to be Tart for me – just love it – but there are so many beauties.
I’m knitting the Featherweight cardigan in prairie Smokestack – and it’s a favorite! Love love love! Hoping to try out the awesome cosmo colour :-)
I love “Fragrant” it reminds me so much of lovely old fashioned scented summer roses. And “Thyme” too.. almost impossible to choose!
Begonia Leaf is my favourite colour. A fantastic design by Stephen West.
My new favourite color is London Cosmopolitan
If I could only pick one it would be fragrant, but its a hard choice!
Choosing your favorite Tosh color as easy as choosing between Cary Grant and George Clooney!!!!! But, if I have to pick it’s Betty Draper’s Blues! I keep using it and it never disappoints!!!
Ohhh! A truly difficult question. But, if forced, I would live and die by Cosmic Wonder Dust.
All the tosh colors are overwhelmingly lovely, but I think Ink is the most beautiful and complex indigo I have ever seen.
Just one?! I’d have to say vintage sari.
Robin Red Breast is a perfect red.
I love Forestry, and it wood be the first time knitting with Madeline Toshe.
One colour only… at the moment it is “modern Fair Isle”
Oh got to be thyme!
I like so many Madelinetosh colors but I have to say my favorite right now is Grenadine. Is the book still available to pre-order?
I really like the modern fair isle colourway. But I also fell in love with Cousteau!
This week my favorite color is Whiskey Barrel. All the colors are amazing and choosing just one is nearly impossible!
I have to pick just one? Gah that is hard. Right now, I am obsessed with shire, or cousteau, or any of the tosh purples.
My favourite colour is Robin Red Breast.
My favourite has to be Modern Fair Isle. Classic and cosy. So excited about this book release!
The seaweedy variagations of Big Sur.
Citrus seems to be my colour, really difficult to pick just one…
Pick ONE colour?! That hardly seems fair! I’ll have to say that currently it’s Turtle. It’s such a lovely blend of cream, turquoise and gold.
Madtosh merino light is my absolute favourite yarn. At the moment my favourite colour is the very vibrant Grasshopper.
I love so many, but pick ‘grasshopper’ today.
Rose is my favourite colour …
I am painting old roses at the moment so I would say ROSE! thank you. :))
Wicked. Not colours suited for me (I wish), but about to knit some up for my daughter and they look lovely on her
Thanks for the chance! I love Rainwater and Worn Denim. Really – all the blues
Pamela
So hard to choose just one but I truly love Plaid Blanket. It is as comforting as its name suggests!
Candlewick, candlewick how I so so love this colourway
Goodness! It’s tough to choose! But as I’m feeling in autumnal mood today I think I would go with Resin or Twig :)
My favourite is denim. I bought a skein of Merino light in Paris at L’Oiseau du The. I used it to make my first Ishbel shawl which I adore :)
I’m knitting right now a Sonnenfeuer shawl in celadon. It’s an unbelievable, wonderful winter glacier colour, can’t wait for winter to come :)
So difficult to choose just one, but my first choice has to be ‘rose’!
My favourite colour so far must be Torchere, though seeing the new colourway up for grabs that might just change quite soon!!!
I think my favourite colour would have to be Baltic – a beautiful, bountiful blue!
My favourite colour is posy
It just reminds me of all those scrumptious frozen yogurts that are around at this time of year.
Holi :)
MAD LOVE for MadelineTosh – ALL!! Definitely moving London Cosmo to the top of the list!! #meanderingshawl
I’m not always a pink fan, but Coquette is to die for!
TART. The best red. Ever.