Yarn of the Week: 2

Hello, I hope everyone had a good weekend. I was trawling the internet today, and found this lovely website, Farm Yarn, which sells natural wool without any nasty dyes and things.

I especially like this wool, which has come from baby alpaca. Unfortunately, the wool is expensive and quite a lot of products are out of stock. However, I like the principles of this company.

 

Farm Yarn Baby Alpaca

 

 

technical information: Our lighter weight of alpaca knitting yarn is spun with three strands of alpaca and knits up as a 4ply with a tension of 28 stitches and 34 rows to 10cm/4 inches on 4mm (UK number 8/US number 6) needles. It comes in 50g (1.76 ounce) balls and has approx 120yds (110m) per ball.

As I’m writing this, I’m realising that we actually need a joint yarn of the week this week, as I’m so keen to display my favourite wool and it kinda follows on from the Farm Yarn theme. I say favourite but I haven’t actually ever purchased any or knitted with it but I just love it. Maybe I’ll treat myself after Christmas! Anyway, the yarn I’m rambling on about is the Sirdar Eco Wool range, yum! Like the Farm Yarn products, nothing unnatural has touched this wool and it looks beautiful. It comes in different colours and I think it would be lovely to knit up a special present for someone. 

 

Sirdar Eco Wool DK

Website of the Week: 1

This week, our website of the week is Stash. It’s based in Chester, England. They have moved to a bigger shop, which is just a short walk from the town, but unfortunately they don’t seem to be open at the weekend any more.

However, they do stock lots of yummy wool including Icelandic Lopi wool! Lopi is not the softest wool in the world, but apparently hard-wearing and good in harsh weather!

This is an Icelandic Sheep, bred for its wool (and other things probably!)

They also have a programme of knitting and crochet workshops, which include lunch and wool and look quite interesting.

Also, they currently have a sale! This includes the Jaeger Aqua yarn, which I love. Postage seems reasonable, so I may have to buy some!!!

They also have a blog so you can keep up to date with all the latest news!

Here’s the link to the site:

http://www.celticove.com/index.html