Posted in Swatch, Yarn on June 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Fiber content: 50% soy 50% acrylic
1 Ball Contains: 70g, 134yards/122m
Price: $3.99
Weight and Type: Worsted (it seems more like Sport to me), plied
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: 19 sts and 24 rows = 4″ in st st with US8/5mm needles
My Gauge, Pre-Wash: 19.5 sts and 23 rows = 4″ in st st with US7/4.5mm needles; crochet [...]
Posted in Swatch, Yarn on June 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Fiber content: 100% Polyester
1 Ball Contains: 50g, yardage not listed. It looks similar to Bernat Cool Crochet (which is cotton and nylon), there’s probably around 200 yards/180m.
Price: 99 cents ($1.14 after tax)
Weight and Type: DK, chained structure
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: The label only has a recommended needle size of 8mm, which is 11US.
My Gauge, [...]
Posted in Crochet, Knitting, Swatch, Yarn on July 6, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s not as bright as it shows in the pictures. I also wasn’t able to capture the colours properly, it looks much better in person.
Fiber content: 40% cotton, 35% polyamide, 10% acrylic, 10% viscose, 5% acetate
1 Ball Contains: 50g, 79 yards (72m)
Price: $9.95 Canadian.
Weight and Type: Aran weight, fancy.
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: US9/5.5mm = [...]
Posted in Crochet, Knitting, Swatch, Yarn on July 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Fiber content: 100% Bamboo
1 Ball Contains: 50g, 103 yds (approx), 95m (approx)
Price: I bought this on sale for $6.95 Canadian locally. Yarn Market has them for $5.85 American, so maybe it wasn’t that much of a sale.
Weight and Type: Ribbon yarn, worsted weight.
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: US9/5.5mm = 19 sts & 25 rows = [...]
Posted in Crochet, Knitting, Swatch, Yarn on June 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Fiber content: 100% Bamboo
1 Ball Contains: 100g, 250 yds (228.6m)
Price: Mine was in a swap, but it retails for $11.50 to $14.00 American, around the same in Canada.
Label’s Gauge and Needle Size: 5 sts and 8 rows = 1″ st st on US6 (4mm) needles. Nothing listed for crochet.
My Gauge, Pre-Wash: 7 sts and 7 [...]
Posted in Swatch, Yarn on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Fiber content: 80% cotton 20% Elitè Polyester Fiber (I have no idea why that’s an accent grave, that’s what it says on the label)
1 Ball Contains: 50g, approx 160m (175 yds)
Price: Mine was in a swap, but it retails for $11.50 to $14.00 American. According to Rowan’s website, it’s either not available in Canada, or [...]
Posted in Knitting, Swatch, Work in Progress, Yarn on April 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Blue Sky Alpaca’s Dyed Cotton, in Stone.
That is a roughly 6″ by 6″ swatch, with a little 1×1 ribbing in the middle because I tried to make it more interesting. I wanted to get 18 stitches to 4″, but I got 19 stitches to 4″ on size 7s. That should be okay actually because I’m [...]
