Week 17 = Luxury Yarns
Day 7 = April 29, 2014
In every knitting circle there are a few knitters who design their own patterns and ask their friends to test knit them. This is a common occurrence in knitting circles. What is a little different is when a friend starts her own luxury yarn company and you get to play with deliciously lovely, hand dyed yarns.
LYDIA (Luxury Yarn Dyed In America) is the dream and hard work of my friend, Angela Cline. Last week Angela did a wonderful 2 part interview with our friend, Tamara Goff of KnitOasis. Here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2. I can see that this is the first of many interviews to come for LYDIA.
LYDIA has a shop on Etsy where you can purchase their yarns. Here's the web address: www.etsy.com/shop/LYDIAyarn. There are 5 lines of yarn that LYDIA carries and I will show and tell you about all of them. Going alphabetically, first we have Angel which is 40% Alpaca, 40% Wool, 20% Silk. It is a 1 ply, DK weight yarn with 252 yards/100 grams per hank. There are currently 2 colorways available for the Angel line:
Limeade Spruce Tree
Second we have Bliss which is 80% Superwash Merino, 10% Cashmere, 10% Nylon. It is a Sock weight (High-twist) yarn with 400 yards/100 grams per hank. There are currently 2 colorways available for the Bliss line:
Peacock Cool Water
Third we have Cuddle which is 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon. It is a 1 ply, Bulky weight yarn with 82 yards/100 grams per hank. There were 2 colorways, but I bought out 1 of them, "Grandma's Couch". You will have to tune in to next week's blogs to see why. So, here is the 1 colorway available for the Cuddle line:
Mystic
Fourth is Delight which is 70% Superwash Merino, 30% Silk. It is a 1 ply, Light Fingering weight yarn with 400 yards/100 grams per hank. I may have just bought a hank as a giveaway prize for next week, or maybe not... Check tomorrow's post to find out. There is 1 colorway available in the Delight line:
Oyster Shell
Fifth and last, but not least, we have Twist which is a 2 ply yarn – 1 ply Alpaca, 1 ply Merino. It is a Fingering weight yarn with 438 yards/100 grams per hank. There are 2 colorways available for the Twist line:
Lavender Sky Mint
Just like some of the other independent yarn companies that I talked about this week, LYDIA dyes their yarn in single batches. This means that the yarn is not mass produced and therefore only a limited number of hanks/skeins are available for each colorway.
Knitting question of the day
Which line of LYDIA would you like to knit with most?
with your name, date of blog and answer to the
question and I will post it on the blog for you.***
Knitting with "Cuddle",
Victoria
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