Knit Something / know your yarns
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Know Your Yarns: Madeline Tosh Merino Light
Madeline Tosh Merino Light has been a staple of our selection since it first arrived, and we absolutely love it. This 100% superwash merino wool yarn is a single-ply, fingering-weight yarn that shows off colour beautifully and knits up into a gorgeous lightweight fabric. Though not a good choice for socks (the single ply means they would wear out quickly), Merino Light is perfect for shawls and light sweaters — how lucky that it's the same base used for Madeline Tosh's Unicorn Tails, making it easy to add stripes to your projects without ending up with too many leftovers. Naturally, we...
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Stash Essentials: Cascade Yarns
Cascade yarns are hard to beat! We love a luxury yarn as much as the next knitter, but when it comes to tried-and-true, hard-wearing, and affordable yarns, Cascade is our 'go to' yarn. Cascade 220, Cascade 220 Superwash, Eco Duo and Cascade Heritage are our favorites. And since we've found ourselves recommending it more and more frequently, we thought it was time to sing its praises here. Cascade Eco Duo in Vanilla, Latte, and Hazelnut. Cascade Eco Duo: This is definitely one of our favourites. A 50-50 blend of undyed baby alpaca and undyed merino wool, Eco Duo is a...
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Stash Essentials: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, Eco Baby, and Angel
ebbie Bliss yarns are excellent quality, have consistent colourways, and come at great prices — true stash essentials. Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino, Eco Baby, and Angel, which has us planning dozens of projects. Here are a few of the ones we're most looking forward to. Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino.Top: Candy Pink, Baby Pink, Carnation.Bottom: Lemon, Primrose, Gold Baby Cashmerino — This sport-weight blend of wool, microfibre, and cashmere is a definite workhorse. Super-soft and perfect for next-to-skin wear, Baby Cashmerino is an ideal yarn for close-fitting sweaters, winter accessories, and, of course, baby items. It would be perfect for a New Girl skirt, this adorable Teddy Bear, the Playful...
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Know Your Bulky Yarns
The chill is really starting to set in around here, and there's only one way we know how to beat it: warm woolly sweaters, shawls, cowls, hats, mitts, etc. The key, here, though is thick and woolly, and, better yet, quick! Due to an always high demand around this time of year, we've got lots of chunky and bulky yarns in stock. Some are old favourites (Berroco Peruvia Quick and Misti Alpaca Chunky among them) but we have lots of new yarns too, so without further ago, here's a great selection of yarns destined to be your need-warmth-now garments of choice. Rowan...
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Know Your Yarns: Rowan Kidsilk Haze, Felted Tweed, and Kid Classic
Rowan Yarns are famous and rightly so! We've been carrying Rowan Pure Wool Worsted for three years, and that first taste got us wanting more Rowan! We now have huge amounts of Rowan Felted Tweed (in both, DK and Aran), Rowan Kidsilk Haze (and Kidsilk Haze Stripe!), and Rowan Kid Classic, all available in a ton of colours, and in sweater quantities (you can see our full selection of Rowan here). Left: Rowan Kidsilk Haze in Magestic, Steel, and Smoke.Right: Rowan Kidsilk Haze in Essence, Jelly, and Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe in Circus Rowan Kidsilk Haze isn't new to our shelves, but it is such a lovely a yarn that we can't...
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Rowan Pure Wool Worsted: Know your yarns
We have been admirers of the Rowan aesthetic for a long time, so we are thrilled to be able to tell you that we have Rowan yarns on our shelves. Rowan's Pure Wool Worsted is lovely and soft, but still has the slightly rustic appearance we love. It's that perfect blend of on-trend and traditional that Rowan does well – you can't help but feel that anything you knit or crochet from this yarn will become an instant classic. Clockwise from top, Rowan Pure Wool Worsted in Grasshopper, Apple, and Olive While we recommend taking a spin through the two...
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Know Your Chunky Yarns
We know we don't need to tell you it has been cold. When -18C is an improvement, well, lets just say we've been considering just draping ourselves in skeins of wool as a stop-gap. If you're anything like us, when it's cold, you wish you had thicker layers and then the minute it warms up you go back to knitting whatever pretty things catch your fancy. It's a new year, though, so this time we're going to be prepared for the next polar vortex by hunkering down now with pretty (and thick!) yarn and fun quick patterns. A few quick...
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Shibui Knits: Know your yarns
We say this all the time (we know) but we really, really can't wait for you to see the new Shibui Knits yarn we have in stock. Shibui Knits knows their fibers, and they also know how to design contemporary, exciting pattern collections that show off all the things we love about their yarns. We're now carrying three Shibui yarns, in a full complement of colourways – let us give you a tour. Clockwise from top, Shibui Pebble in Ivory, Spore, and Chestnut Pebble is a light-fingering/laceweight yarn made up of merino, cashmere, and recycled silk. Each fiber takes the...
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Stash essentials: Berroco Ultra Alpaca
Ultra Alpaca in Irwyn (#6273) When it comes to stashing yarn, every knitting and crocheter has certain fibres that call to them. Some people are drawn to luxury fibres like silk and cashmere and others can't resist that unique skein of hand-dyed sock yarn. When it comes to buying in quantity, though, you want something you know you can use. Stashing a sweater's worth of yarn – purchased either with no plan in mind or with a plan that is later forgotten – means knowing that the yarn you're purchasing is going to be perfect for a wide range of...
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Misty Alpaca Yarn: know your yarns
Say hello to Misti Alpaca Chunky. It would seem that here in EweKnit, as the temperature outside drops, our desire to wrap ourselves in alpaca (or, at least surround ourselves with it in the shop) increases accordingly. It has gotten colder, so the alpaca we've been compulsively squishing has gotten bigger: say hello to Misti Alpaca Chunky. This 100% baby alpaca yarn is so soft it doesn't quite seem real. And I know you've probably felt some soft yarn before, but truly, this stuff is like lullabies and clouds soft. That it comes is a wide range of both solid...