Posted in Etsy, Yarn on June 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was just listening Episode 60 of the Lime and Violet Podcast, and near the end they were looking at an etsy site (Gaslight Dyeworks, the username is yarnzombie). That person doesn’t have any 100% vegan fibers, but they mentioned how one of her rovings contained something called Black Diamond, which is carbonized bamboo.
I [...]
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 Yarn on January 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Quite a while ago, maybe a year or more, Bernat surprised me by coming out with a line of new acrylic blends. One of them was Soy, which is 50% soy and 50% acrylic. It’s a little thinner than worsted weight and has a nice feel to it, but unfortunately, the colours are blah. Off-white, [...]
Posted in Crochet, Finished Objects, Knitting, Work in Progress, Yarn on December 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve finished a couple of small things since my last post. One is a pair of gloves, the pattern is a mod of Urban Necessity from Magknits. They’re supposed to be a flip-top mitten, so that you can have fingerless gloves for when you need your fingers, and mittens for when you don’t, all in [...]
Posted in Crochet, Finished Objects, Yarn on August 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The only thing I don’t like about the sweater is it’s name. I’m not sure why.
I finished it earlier today. It’s in Bernat Super Value Ombres Mountain Lake Ombre (which is a very soft acrylic), and it took 4 skeins, less than a quarter of the fourth one. I made the large size, but took [...]
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 Blog, Books, Yarn on June 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I don’t think I ever talked about Stephanie Pearl McPhee’s book, Knitting Rules. Actually, she has more than one, but this is the only one that I have so far. I’m mentioning her now because I just read her blog, and it reminded me how much I love being in this knitting community online, and [...]
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 [...]
