Koigu's What's In Your Cup

Milk Tea with Boba Perles:

Boba tea, bubble tea or milk tea. All refer to a beverage craze sweeping the country, Milk tea is a black tea base with milk, ice and tapioca pearls all mixed together. Available in a range of flavours and styles boba teas come in all sorts of colours. Which naturally drew us in, like bubble tea in many ways Koigu yarns are available in many styles, weights and colours.

Suggested colour pairings: P468, P643, P026, P036, 2260, 5211

Matcha Tea Latte:

What exactly is Matcha let alone a Tea Latte? Matcha powder is made from finely ground leaves from a green tea plants. The powder is then brewed and blended with hot water to form the tea base for the latte. Before or after the frothed milk can be added depending on preference. In the end you’re left with a wonderful hot or cold caffeinated or un-caffeinated beverage. Weather or not its flavoured or an original matcha tea latte that light green tea colour always shows. Pair an interesting beverage with our array of greens available in our varigates and semi solids. 

Suggested colour pairings: P564, 2132, 1533, 0000

Rainbow Sangria

It’s almost impossible to go out for a lunch or dinner in the summer time without seeing a variation of a sangria on the menu. Sangria is an alcoholic drink traditionally made with red wine, a variety of fruit and brandy or orange juice. Now a days there’s a ton of sangria’s made with white wine and even rosé. With a combination of white wine and a variety of fruits and juices the rainbow sangria is created. Drawing on the bright colours of the fruit in the glass here at Koigu we pulled these colours based on what we saw and hope you enjoy them as much as we do. 

Suggested colour pairing: Koigu Hefty hanks, P123A, P441, P815, P851

Cappuccino

A coffee shop classic, a cappuccino is an espresso based beverage originating in Italy around the 1700’s and becoming wildly popular during the 2000’s with the availability of espresso machines.  A long standing favourite of the Koigu team this classic drink keeps us vigilant and awake to bring you our best every chance we get.

Suggested colour pairing: 1300, 1305, 2395, P737

Koigu Classic Feature: Charlotte's Web Shawl

Three amazing things arrived in the world in 1998: Kersti and I (her cousin) were born 2 days apart and then the Charlotte’s Web Shawl arrived shortly after! Maie, the founder of Koigu Wool Designs, was asked to design a simple shawl and, not knowing the rules of knitting with lace, she used some variegated lace merino ends she had lying around and got to work. This had pretty much not been done before as it was an unspoken rule that classic lacework should always only be in solid colours.

Little Kersti modelling the Charlotte’s Web.

Maie began to knit a shawl in a simple lace pattern but got creative by interchanging the variegated colorways. Once the shawl was done she sent it off to be published and thought no more of it. But the response to the pattern Charlotte’ Web was wild! People all over just HAD to make it. It was later published in Wrapped in Color as well as in Knits from a Painters palette.

The pattern is now legendary among knitters. The shawl uses five different variegated colorways, each one eased into the next in whichever amounts you wish to add your own style to it. The Charlotte’s Web has been reinnovated in counteless different ways in different yarns and colourways to give it new life. It is often now knit in KPPPM fingering weight instead of lace weight. It’s simplicity and timelessness has lead to the pattern being made over 900 times on Ravelry and countless times before.

Since the original pattern was designed with ends, the Charlotte’s Web is a perfect project for Koigu pencil boxes! Ten 25g skeins are a perfect replacement for five 50g skeins and you can get even more creative with the colour.

Charlotte’s Web knit from the River Run pencil box.

Have you made a Charlotte’s Web? We would love to see it.

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