Knit Something / stash essentials
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Know Your Yarns: Madeline Tosh Merino Light
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →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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Stash Essentials: Berroco Vintage Yarn
Read more →Berroco Vintage is another stash essential. It has been a little while since we've done a Stash Essentials post, but what with fall (and crisp, cool weather) just around the corner, we bet we're not alone in wondering what sweater-quantities of yarn our stash holds. If yours doesn't hold any, or you'd like to increase what's there, Berroco Vintage is a great choice. Vintage is available in three weights — DK, worsted, and chunky — and thanks to its acrylic content (it's a blend of 52% acrylic, 40% wool, and 8% nylon), it's machine washable! We are rarely in a position to champion a yarn with...
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Stash essentials: Berroco Ultra Alpaca
Read more →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...
