New Acquisitions Part 1
June 21st, 2006 at 9:07 pm (uncategorized)
Lacking for time and blog fodder these days, I thought I would share with you some recent additions to the stash-that-is-known-as-mine-hands-off-dammit:
Yarn is from Brooks Farm Yarns. This yarn waited three years to come home with me, since I first saw the Brooks Farm booth at the Wool Market three years ago. I thought they colors would work well together. I hate variegated yarns when knit up but love them in the skein. What’s a girl to do? So was thinking fair isle with the variegated as the ‘color’.
Then I realized the solid yarn is a TWO ply, and the variegated is a THREE ply, and each of the individual plies is about the same size. So the variegated is thicker than the solid. Will it matter? A swatch might tell me. Or it might not. Those pesky swatches have been known to lie to me before.
The yarn is interesting to look at, it’s got one or two plies surrounded by a third ply. That’s the shiny bits you see in the photo. They had samples of it knit up at various gauges, and it looks very nice knit or woven. They had a Clapotis (which wasn’t as heavy looking as I might have thought), a very lacy garter stitch shawl thingy, and a couple of ribbed scarves and a woven bit (scarf) that used variegated for both warp and weft.
More acquisitions later this week, and other fun things to look at. Why don’t you go buy some software while you’re waiting? *grin*
Helle Reed said,
June 26th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Ohhh, your stuff looks gorgeous. Was just surfing, looking around, because i find Excel very confusing to use…then saw this software of yours. WOW…looks like something i want…one day, when i hopefully got the money. I’m on early retirement….pension, because of Fibromyalgia, but I’m allowed to earn a little beside that. Playing with some thoughts about designing, and got some ideas. I will look forward to read on your blog when surfing around,…..keep up the good work. HUGGA
wendy said,
June 27th, 2006 at 10:55 am
I have the same exact issue with variagated yarn–love it on the skein and hate the way it knits up.I thought I was the only one. (I should mention that I also have no interest in knitting socks.) I have been suckered on occasion to giving in to purchasing some and have considered not fairisle but mosaic stitch solutions. I have knit with Brooks Farms yarns quite a bit ( I can’t resist buying some at the MSW each year) and I think you will be able to use the two yarns together. I love the colors you chose. Enjoy, these yarns a dream to knit with and to wear.