And, onward. One item has escaped back to my stash so I need to keep focused. Here's all the rest in one go, never mind what I said about three posts.
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16) Schaeffer Yarn Company Andrea, one lovely and mysterious skein of laceweight cultivated silk. I say mysterious because I have NO RECOLLECTION of this yarn. No memory of when or where I got it, nor, frankly, why, because its washed denim blue/green is a beachy watercolor, where I tend to go big for mountain sunset oils or river rock colors. The silk is gorgeous to the touch, 1093 yards of laceweight. $44.00
17) Oh, this one hurts. Shadeyside Farm Studio Alpaca Blend. Eleven 210 yard skeins. Paid$165.00 at Stitches East in 2005. I was obsessed, visited this yarn for the whole weekend and finally ordered it the last afternoon. I was going to make the Aquarius pullover from The Knitters Stash - which is what they had the yarn knit into in the booth. It was gorgeous. It IS gorgeous. The colour is called Faded Glory and it's kind of this wonderfully dirty slate gray/green and it's 50/50 wool/alpaca which means I will NEVER EVER wear a sweater made of it, because I will crawl out of my skin. Because alpaca makes me itch. Yours for $132.00
18) Jute. I was going to make shopping bags, because I was obsessed with the color of this and that was what I could think of to make with it. Copper colored, from School Products, four 175 m skeins. Retail $26.00, yours for $20.
19) Eleven skeins (273 m) of Shelridge Farm Wool/Cotton for the Celtic Icon cardigan from Inspired Cable Knits. This is the pattern yarn for this sweater and it's a nice knit. But it is also Cherry Pink, which I love in the ball but... I just rid of a t-shirt this color. Every time I put it on, I took it off right away - I'm just not comfortable wearing it. One skein has been cable swatched, I will include the swatch. Paid $ 165.00, yours for $132.00
20) Oh, this is a nice yarn. I had three skeins and knit a gift out of one and 1/2ish of them. Great color, lovely fiber. Blue Sky Alpaca Melange Alpaca fingering weight. 1 skein and 21 grams. Yours for $9.50.
21) Cascade 220. I know I bought this, but I do not know what for. It's unlike me to buy 3 skeins of something with no project in mind. 20 skeins with no plan, sure, or 3 skeins of something exotic. But three skeins of a workhorse with no plan? My brain is mysterious. It's a great red, it's going to waste here. Retail $21, yours for $16.50
22) Cashmere! Three 150 gram cones of 2/14 (heavy) laceweight from Colourmart. Colour Black Mack, a two tone dark marled blue There's about 1150 yards per 150 grams. Paid 108.00, yours for $86.00. I think I was planning to hold all three ends together and knit a pullover. But 1150ish yards isn't quite enough for me there. It's too much for most things and not enough for a sweater (for me). Bad planning.
23) More cashmere! FOUR 150 gram cones of 2/14 (heavy) laceweight from Colourmart. Colour Spruce Tweed, which is a two tone green marl. . Same as above, about 1150 yards per 150 grams. I am weak in the face of Colourmart basically, but this green never really hit my happy color place. Two of these have been tied into hanks, two are still on the cone. Paid $144.00, yours for $115.00.
24) Oh this is a fun one. Way way back in the early days of knit blogging Fluffa was making a ribbony poncho for her sister. I was charmed. I bought the yarn. I was going to make this fringy sweater coat (I know) (I know) from one of the Phildar magazines. And...here we are 6 years or more later. 26 balls of Phildar Phil Ruban in chocolate, one swatched, but will include swatch. Really lovely silky cotton ribbon yarn. This was 130 euros, which is..175 dollars ish. Yours for $140.00
SOLD 25) 10 balls of Rowan Felted Tweed DK in Ginger, one swatched and ripped. You know what is dumb? Buying 10 balls of yarn in the color you are about to dye your hair. I swear, it's close enough that when I hold a yarn ball up to my face I feel matchy-matchy. Tom and Loenzo say, and I agree, that going together is WAY better than matching. So there you go. Paid $100, yours for $80. Because I am not going back to blond.
27)AL de Sauveterre Klee Scarf Kit. Paid $110.00, yours for $88.00, including the knitted already bit.
One thing I am noticing is that a LOT of the things I'm letting go are from 2004 & 5, when I first started knitting seriously, began blogging, bought freely and was HEAVILY influenced by my new knitting friends. Take this scarf: One of my VERY first cashmere purchases, Stitches 2005. But I've been knitting on it on and off for years, and I'm maybe 1/3 of the way through, because it is too fiddly for drunk group knitting and I am more and more sure that this is a set of colours and a style I will ever wear, which means I don't give it concentrated time. And so it lingers. But it's beautiful.
28) Jaegar Albany - 20 balls of pretty wine coloured cotton ribbon. I had SUCH a plan for this, and no idea what I was doing - There was this sweater in an old IK in ..something really different. I was going to rejig, but my ideas about yarn conversion were hazy. I had 30 balls at one point, I think. That's enough to make a dress.
20 balls, discontinued, retail $150, yours for $100.
SOLD 29) 20 balls Jaeger Extra Fine Merino DK. I'm having a hard time with this one too. I was going to make a henley. Which I still think is a good idea. And I love this olive, it's got a bit of dimmensionality to it. Thus the hard time. Paid 175.00, yours for $140.00
30) 14 skeins of Jaeger Luxury Tweed. The combination of the pale blue - I need colors to have a little dirt in them - and the 35% alpaca have kept this one in the bullpen. It really is gorgeous and fluffy like kittens. I bought it because of Clara's review. In fact, I want to go buy it again after re-reading that. But alpaca. So - retail $120.00, yours for $95.00
31) Stitches 2005 AGAIN. I tried on this capelet as a joke and was unexpectedly not laughed at. The designer had noted the poncho trend and written up a pattern for a buttoned poncho her mother in law knit for her in the 70s. It's cute, but one strand of Briggs and Little held together with one strand of Joseph Geller Peruvian Tweed is HELLA thick for a knit three together. I knit aobut a third and then ran out of steam. And now I realize that I will not wear a capelet because what do you do with your purse strap? And if I did it wear one it would be made of coating and dressy. So after 5 years, I'm ripping it out. R.I.P little poncho. If you want BOTH yarns, I'll throw in the pattern.
4 Skeins of Briggs and Little Regal 2 ply in Brown. One partially knit and then rewound. Paid 22, yours for $17.50
32) 2 huge skeins of Joseph Galler Peruvian Tweed - you know I think this will be the second time I bought and then sold this yarn. Slow learner on the alpaca front, though I COULD wear it as a cape, if I thought I would wear a cape. One partially knit and then rewound. Paid $55, yours for $44.00.
33) Three 150g cones of black-watch-plaid-green cashmere single laceweight from Colourmart. I have no idea what I had in mind. Hold them together and have not quite enough for a fine gauge sweater? Knit a really, really big fine lace shawl? I used to date a Scotsman entitled to wear that plaid, and I swear to god, I can't even look at this color. Which is too bad, because this is pretty stuff. Paid 108.00, yours for$86.00
34) I go a little bananas buying yarn in Toronto. This is from Romni wools in 2007 I think. 2006? I was obsessed with this big Fleece Artist Goldilocks boucle shawl I had seen someone wearing and twice bought yarn to make it. One is here and the other only got as far as what you see in the picture (there is only so much garter stitch in boucle a girl can do). I will reball it if you want, or leave the shawl unripped if you want to carry on. Your choice. Paid $55.00, yours for $44.00
SOLD 35) Romni Wools Again. Canada = Fleece Artist/Handmaiden yarn I guess. Which makes sense. Two fat skeins of copper Fleece Artist 2 ply Kid Silk. Incredible drape. Paid $40.00 yours for $32.00
36) Sometimes I buy cashmere for no reason at all. Jade Sapphire 6 ply, one skein. Bought on a yarn field trip to Philly at Loop. Was going to make little mitts I think.
Paid $41.00, yours for $33.00
37) I remember this one. 1st Maryland Sheep and Wool, shopping with TooMuchWool. We were dazed I think. SO much new stuff to see, new fibers, handmade yarns. So I bought this little skein of heavy silver mohair. No idea what I paid, or how many yards or anything. It's SHINY though. $15.00
38) My first Rhinebeck was in 2004. I was a baby blogger and people kept talking about this thing, this place, and I looked at a map and realized it was only a few hours away and so on Sunday I went and wandered around in a daze. I caught sight of people I recognized from the internet and I saw yarn like nothing I had seen before. I bought 4 fat skeins of this thick and thin single yarn spun from what I am now fairly sure is Ashland Bay top. I even knit it into a sweater. Which was extremely fitted, but unfortunately not WELL fitted and made me look like a badly overstuffed chair. Not the smallest idea what I paid for it. Yours for $60.00.
39) 2 Skeins and a bit of Reynolds Blizzard. I was and remain fascinated by this yarn. I crocheted a giant wrap/throw of this just because I thought it was fuzzy and soft (it is). These are leftovers from that. $12.00
40) 6 balls of Louisa Harding Fauve in black. I was - and am - obsessed with the Coachella tank from Knitty, but am not crazy about the Suede yarn specified. (Does anyone know what happened to Fathom Harvill? Don't think she blogs anymore) These next two were purchased as possible subs, but they're stretchy where suede is stable, and heavier. $18.00
SOLD41) 10 Balls Louisa Harding Fauve in Fawn. Ditto. $30.00
42) And LAST. Bag of Mystery single balls. Nothing in it goes together. $25.00
I too loved reading the where and when of your yarn escapades...
But, how many single balls in item #42? That one is tempting me...
Posted by: Mary | 12 March 2011 at 12:46 PM
I'll take the three skeins of red Cascade 220 if it is still available. Exactly what I was going to buy for this year's Red Scarf.
Posted by: kmkat | 20 February 2011 at 01:34 PM
I personally am just enjoying hearing your post-mortems on all this. Such a tour through your brain! Loving it!
Posted by: Ann | 18 February 2011 at 10:08 AM
Oh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't wear alpaca! I've never figured out a good (i.e., quasi-polite) reply to people who gently correct me, telling me that it's wool that's itchy, not alpaca.
Posted by: Tee | 17 February 2011 at 05:34 PM
I'll take the 10 balls of fawn Fauve AND the Adriafil Frou Frou from yesterday's post.
Posted by: Mary Yount | 17 February 2011 at 02:42 PM
If the Felted Tweed is still available, I'll take it off your hands.
Posted by: naomi | 17 February 2011 at 01:03 PM