Elann has posted a preview of three new yarns for spring:
Limited Edition Cotone Lin, a 60% Cotton/ 40% Linen blend, 115 yards per 50g ball. $2.98 marked down from $7.50.
Classic Elite Sundance 50% Cotton/ 50% Microfibre, 83 yards per 50g ball. $2.98 marked down from $5.95.
Elle Cotton Fields 4 Ply Full Bag Sale 50% Cotton/ 50% Dralon Acrylic, 160 yards per 50g ball. $14.85 per 10-ball bag.
Berroco has announced its line of new yarns for fall. I’m most excited about Berroco Remix (pictured above) which is made of 100% recycled fibers!
Berroco Remix 30% Nylon, 27% Cotton, 24% Acrylic, 10% Silk, 9% Linen. 216 yards per 100g ball. Described by Berroco as “a non-wool tweed,” this 100% recycled yarn is also machine washable.
Berroco Borealis a 60% acrylic/40% wool loosely spun single that apparently sparkles? 108 yards per 100g hank.
Berroco Campus 50% Wool, 40% Acrylic, 10% Alpaca, 130 yards per 100g hank. Love the multicolored action!
Berroco Vintage Chunky a fat version of the popular Berroco Vintage. 50% Acrylic,
40% Wool, 10% Nylon, 130 yards per 100g hank.
Blackstone Tweed Chunky same story as above, a chunky version of a popular favorite. 65% Wool, 25% Superkid Mohair, 10% Angora, 60 yards per 50g ball. (P.S. what is “superkid”? Do the goats wear red and blue capes?)
Shifting economics have driven the price of lamb through the roof in Britain, where sheep rustling is commensurately on the rise. Most sheep theft involves between 10 and 50 sheep, according to a spokesman for the National Farmer’s Union.
But the latest theft is that of an entire flock of 271 sheep, worth a whopping 27,000 British Pounds (about $50,000) in total.
Life is hard enough for people who raise livestock for a living, without adding the possibility of theft to the mix!
Great Northern Yarns is the exclusive American retailer of 70% mink/30% cashmere yarn in the USA. Amazingly, the mink comes from sheared minks. Unlike a mink coat, where the mink is killed and skinned, the mink fiber used for the yarns leaves the minks unharmed.
The mink cashmere yarn has many unique properties. Knitting stimulates a blossoming of the mink fibers creating a lovely halo effect. Our cashmere is incredibly soft and light, carefully spun from the finest cashmere fibers sourced from our partner farm in the western part of Inner Mongolia.
Can you resist? Are you sure? Because it’s only $19.50 for a skein of 230 yards of this deliciousness. You could totally make a cowl out of that. Just sayin’.
Image copyright Great Northern Yarns.
(Aw c’mon, allow me just one “baa” joke.)
The Evening Standard’s website reports on a Cardiff family who keep a sheep as a house pet. Nick Boing “has his own purpose-built bungalow, complete with a carpet and windows, in the family’s back garden.”
Nick weighs 22 stone (308 pounds) and is fond of the biscuit tin.
The world’s finest bale of wool has been sold at auction in Sydney for $244,000. (AU$, I assume.)
At 11.6 microns, this fleece from the Hillcreston Pinehill Partnership farm in southern New South Wales is half again as fine as the average merino fiber.
In the months before the sale, CNN reported that the sheep who produced the record fleece were kept in a special indoor paddock which was “stress-free with the climate controlled and special feed,” and that the bale of fleece itself was kept in a bank vault.