UPS brought several big boxes this week. For a while we were buried in bags of yarn, and kept saying to each other “Hey, look at this!”
So though the calendar says January it’s starting to feel like spring in the store. After all, if you want a new sweater for April you should really start knitting now.
Sirdar Baby Bamboo
This is Sirdar’s Baby Bamboo, it’s 80% bamboo with 20% wool. The wool lightens the bamboo a bit, and will help it to keep it’s shape. Bamboo can sag a bit.
Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino Silk
Also from Sirdar is the Baby Cashmere Silk- 75% merino, 20% silk, and 5% cashmere. Can we say soft and silky? And great colors? It’s sportweight, so nice for baby clothes as well as lighter weight adult garments.
Ella Rae Bamboo Silk
The bamboo silk is incredibly silky. The manufacturer sent us a child size sweater knit out of it that has incredible drape. It would make a wonderful shawl or lacy sweater. And it’s worsted weight, so it will knit up quickly.
Ella Rae Lace Merino
And last but not least is Ella Rae’s hand dyed sock weight merino. We have samples knit out of this, too. Come see the great colors.
Most of the yarns above are machine washable. The bamboo silk is handwash, but think of washing it as a time to commune with this gorgeous stuff.
In the boxes with these beauties were several pattern books from Ella Rae. We have a collection of patterns from Sublime for the Sirdar yarns, too. There are patterns for babies, kids and adults. Many of them are interesting adaptations of classic styles, and we have samples of some of them.
and what wonderful yarns these are, one more enticing than the other. Maybe if we all started knitting warm weather stuff the we could trick mother nature into thinking she should make spring show up early.