Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Pearl







This is a general purpose yarn that I am sure you will enjoy. We wanted to have a yarn that would be perfect for knitting fine dress sweaters. This is a very nice blend of fine merino, seacell, cashmere and bison. The yarn is soft, strong and warm with a fuzzy shine. We now have it in 4 lovely colors. Dijon is a deep mustard gold color, Red Sand is a light rust reminiscent of the sand color on PEI , Creamberry is red berries with cream and Teetree is the green of one of my favourite medicinal herbs. We hope to be able to offer more colors soon. This is a lovely yarn for any project. Our friend Edith just completed the first men's sweater. It is gorgeous.

Snow Babies

Snow babies is a fingering weight yarn we came up with for a friend who wanted a white yarn to knit baby shawls, booties and hats for newborns. It had to be soft, warm and all natural.
The 50/50 blend of bamboo and 18 micron merino turned out to be just perfect. A 50gm skein has 225 meters of 2 ply yarn which is lots for mitts, booties and hat or a small shawl. It knits up very nicely and feels wonderful. It can be dyed but the bamboo will not take dye as well as the merino. The end color will be lighter then the dye used. This is a very nice yarn for many projects. I will try to get more pictures to post .