Foraging for yarn
The 2-ply Hebridean I ordered from Virtual Yarns got here yesterday; it only took 39 days. Apparently the US government have imposed new regulations that cause shipments over a certain weight to undergo extra checks, so now parcels by Air Mail from the UK to California take about six weeks to be delivered. Curses.
2-ply Hebridean (Virtual Yarns)
lost the urge to knit hats given that spring is upon us in Los Angeles and Ben already got his hat in a different yarn. In the meantime, I found some yarns I’d never tried and bought a skein of Madelinetosh, two skeins of Spinni (Isager Strik) and one Lace Ball. The beauty of the yarn blinded me to the fact that they are all singles and I should have known better because I hate knitting with singles. Spinni is absolutely gorgeous and I have to find a way to use it, diagonal bias or not. This is not a yarn I want to hide in the closet and forget about.
Isager Spinni
The larger swatch was worked with two strands and the diagonal bias is much more pronounced.
Lydia
Kate comes up with such pretty patterns and Caller Herrin is definitely one of them. Pretty colors you’ve chosen. You could get a start on hats for the two of you for the fall. Maybe you’ll need it if you travel somewhere… I know, if you visit my neck of the woods, you could use that hat up through the end of June, because we have June-uary every year….brrr!
dada
You know, you have a point, and we do have “June gloom” here after all. Or maybe I’ll just have to come and visit you. :)
Lorette
What’s the weight of the single? It looks sort of sport weight in the picture, could you ply it to balance it? I don’t remember if you spin or not. It wouldn’t take much time for somebody to run that through a wheel to make a 2 ply.
dada
The weight is light fingering and plying is definitely an option, but not for me. I haven’t done any spinning in years and never on a wheel, only small spindles and I used to ply using the Andean method, so attempting this would be too time consuming and I would have to break the yarn too many times.