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Category Archives: Yarn Porn

New Yarns for November

60% SeaCell, 40% Silk lace weight yarns, brand new this month:
Charcoal Lace

Dime

Emerald Coast

Lady Rose

Navy

New Lil Squish Sock Yarns:
Fall Fireworks

Squishy:

Delicate

Deep Lilac

Raw Emerald

I have one more color of sock yarn I’m not sure if I’ll list, as it’s hand isn’t as nice as usual. Also have four colors of the 100% bamboo yarn to list and quite [...]

These Socks Are Cursed

This was my living room the day before the movers arrived.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t fit it all into the footlocker. The new bulky and worsteds had to be wrapped up in a plastic bag and packed. The new lace weight, the bamboo and cotton yarns are happily wrapped up and locked away in the footlocker, however. [...]

Lace Weight: Pink Pearl Swatch

Sat down and swatched the new lace weight, to get a feel for what needle size to use. Decided to see how it looked on US 3’s.

Not too shabby! Those are Six inch needles, Knit Picks, getting about 7 sts per inch. I have to admit that I was a bit worried the yarn would [...]

Ooo, Shiny!

Have spent the past two days dyeing non-stop. Seventy plus hanks of yarn dyed. Yes, seventy. Seven-zero, 70. If you count the past four days, the total is just over 90.
Really and truly, that is a lot of yarn. And a lot of work. And a lot of dye.
Exhaustion aside, I’ve loved every minute of [...]

New Base Yarn Photos

All three of the new base yarns, undyed, left to right, Bamboo, Silk/Seacell, Cotton/Milk Protien:

Close up of the 100% Bamboo:

The silk and seacell lace weight:

And the cotton and milk protein sock yarn:

One more shot of the cotton, which shows off the twist and texture a bit better:

Will be dyeing some of these up tonight, fingers [...]