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Sustainability Meets Creativity

As a small business, we’re constantly looking for ways to reduce (and reimagine) our waste.
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The Farm-to-Skein of Sustainable SA Yarn

Follow the journey our yarn takes throughout South Africa, from a farm in the Karoo to a skein in our shop.
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Updating our colour palette for 2026

See how Cowgirlblues translates trend forecasts into our vibrant hand-dyed palette.
Colour Wheel - All Colours

Building Colour Confidence

Fall in love with colour using these helpful tips.
Color Palette Socks by Laurel Knits

Gift-worthy Knits

7 Knit projects for gift-worthy holiday recipients.
Dyeing Workshop participants

A Day in the Dye Studio

Behind the scenes of the Intro to Dyeing Workshop, with Holly Kane
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Lemon Poppyseed Cake

A regular crowd pleaser at our Saturday Open Studio.
A young child squeezing a knitted chicken

Knitted Chickens

Yes, you read it right, today we're talking about knitted chickens.
Foot on tiptoe wearing a a hand knit sock in a lace pattern and peachy pink variegated sock yarn

Seductive sock yarns!

Sock yarns make a good souvenir since you only need one skein to knit a pair.
Erinome by Lily Kate France

Picking a Knitting Pattern

Get some useful tips for how to pick a pattern you really want to knit!
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Starting a Sweater

Starting a new knitting project doesn't need to be intimidating with these easy steps.
A collection of objects each with some element of pink

Think pink!

What colour is pink? And what does it represent?
A skein of Cowgirlblues Proper Sock yarn, colour Bridget's Blush, lies horizontally across the top, beneath is a pair of hand knit Midnight Dancer socks and a mini ball of Proper Sock in Lemon

Midnight Dancer

Sari Nordlund's Midnight Dancer Socks a la Bridget
My knitting heritage comes from my grandmother

Heritage of tomorrow?

September 24th is Heritage Day in South Africa
Circular knitting needles on a wooden table surrounded by small yarn ends, the knitting on the needle is in pale green and blue with a ribbed cast-on edge

Change the Colour?

Combine yarns to change the colour of any skein
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Basic Bereanie

What do you get when you cross a beret with a beanie?