puntayarns.com Uruguayan yarns for handknit 2010-05-26T22:24:53Z WordPress http://puntayarns.com/blog/?feed=atom Mistica <![CDATA[Punta Lace: slight and colourful as a Hummingbird]]> http://puntayarns.com/blog/?p=104 2010-05-26T22:24:53Z 2010-05-26T19:42:07Z I born in a country named by a river: Uruguay…. a word that means “river of painted birds” in the indigenous guaraní language, according to the interpretation of  Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, one of the main poets of our land.

Although we are very used to share our life with birds, it`s allways a surprising and inspiring image, watching the hummingbirds. The sun over their feathers makes them shine in a colour explosion of   flapping wings… that makes you wonder… any time… slightly and delicate… like ever… and forever…

Punta Lace shares this spirit... this new yarn of Punta Yarns was specially developed for middle season, as slighty and colourful as hummingbirds… a yarn poem…

As per its spectacular softness, lightness, and assorted blends, knitting with Punta Lace is an artistic delight.

Maybe the increasing trekking tourism in our lands is relationed with the beauty of native birds and butterflies that people love so much… it is often found in the gardens, watering holes with flowers shapes just to make hummingbirds approach, proving that they stop flapping their wings sometimes… enjoying people eyes with their irisdicent bright colours… Perhaps you are not planning to visit Uruguay by now, but you will … just start knitting with Punta Yarns, and you really will consider it ;-)

]]> 0 Mistica <![CDATA[Cabo Polonio Inspiration]]> http://puntayarns.com/blog/?p=67 2010-02-26T15:08:26Z 2009-08-28T14:40:35Z During my last summer holydays I felt in love with Cabo Polonio, a magic village where I spent some days in the atlantic coast of Uruguay, South America. It`s a remote reserve and natural protected area.

Surrounded by sand dunes the small fisherman port, is plenty of sealions resting in the sunny rocks around the lighthouse and the rocky islands near.

As long as there is no electric lights, in the nights the stars seams to be so close and so many more than you have ever seen.

In this charming place, with beautiful Atlantic Ocean beaches, january and february are the high season, the months when most tourists start calling travel agencies and checking websites like Travelzoo for travelling information. But european and american tourism arrives to the Cabo in september expecting to watch the franca whales that usually gets there along with sealions and turtles. Also artisans and surfers that stay there from october until march waves arrives, make the special style and atmosphere of this beach resort. Common visitors as moviemakers, musicians, plastic artists, architects, photographers, jewel, fashion, graphic, web and any other designers, artists and producers from the word, gives the singular tourism profile to the Polonio, mixing perfectly with native people that so kindly receives anybody along the year.

No doubt: Cabo Polonio inspires …

Naturally Punta Yarns developes a yarn with its profile.

CAPO, or Cabo Polonio, is a 100% pima cotton yarn.

A natural color palette as the original place, with an incredible soft and rich touch specially created for people that prefers elegant natural fibers to wear.

You can find all its technical information following this link: Punta Yarns CAPO Tech Spec

CAPO is definitively a yarn that free your mind …. experience with it and let your natural interior creativity flows … and with the ocean waves rhythm… imagine …

If you feel like knowing more about Cabo Polonio from an american point of view or how to get there, follow this link: http://www.gonomad.com/destinations/0512/uruguay.html

Latin audience can find a spanish version of this article in our local market blog: Puro Punto

]]> 0 maca http://www.puntayarns.com/blog/ <![CDATA[TNNA Show, June 2009]]> http://puntayarns.com/blog/?p=48 2009-08-28T17:46:59Z 2009-07-27T19:29:27Z UNFORGETTABLE!!!

For this edition PUNTA YARNS developed an original display to show the wide range of dyeing and colours of our yarns.

5 colour wheels mixing qualities and colours captured the visitors eyes that really appreciated this innovation.

Thanks everybody for visiting our booths.

We hope to surprise you again for the next edition. This our challenge.

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