Wednesday 11 August 2010

A bit more yarn etc

Sometimes I don't understand how it is that I keep knitting socks and the yarn stash doesn't get any smaller. Let's check the balance sheet. In the out column I made these, a wool/cotton mix by Opal that looking back on my blog I bought in Darlington in September 2008. I really like them and the fact I've managed to produce a matching pair with not much waste.
In the in column I just added 4 more 100 g skeins,
Araucania Ranco Multy is beautiful shades. The label says this yarn is hand dyed in Chile using traditional methods and providing opportunities, jobs and hope, I like that. I couldn't decide whether the yarn needed a pattern or not, so I went for a plain pair letting the colours speak for themselves. They can go into the market stall stock, I'll attach the makers label so that whoever buys them can feel good about the purchase too. Finally I found this reduced to £4.99 in TK Maxx. Lots of lovely patterns, a nice fair isle cardy that would suit Amelia, a gorgeous aran cardy that would suit me and doubtless nothing in the stash that meets the yarn requirements.

8 comments:

  1. Argh! That Araucania Ranco Multy is just gorgeous but I'm so not buying any more sock yarn at the moment.

    *resists bravely*

    *may have given in by teatime*

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  2. Oh that Araucania is so lovely. I've used it a couple of times and it is really nice to knit with, don't you think? Socks are just so totally addictive!!!! Ros

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  3. The Araucania yarn is lovely - some of the dyeing is quite subtle. Well done for keeping your sock yarn stash nicely topped up!!

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  4. I feel exactly the same about 'stuff' generally - however much I get rid of, I still seem to have the same amount!!!

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  5. Such gorgeous yarn. I wish I could knit socks.

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  6. Lovely yarn, be careful of the Araucania though, i've heard it can shrink even if carefully hand washed.

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  7. GORGEOUS, luscious ice-cream shades of wool, Jenny...mmm... VERY nice projects in that leaflet. I can't wait to start some scarves & such soon. Happy Weekend :o) ((HUGS))

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  8. What lovely colours!

    I found a way of whittling down my stash - I gave some of it away! I had some very iffy colours hanging around that I was keeping because it was wool, not because I liked it.

    Do you have any wool in your stash you're keeping but which you don't really like?

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