Sunday, September 28, 2008

Lace weight cone yarn







I am offering the following cone yarns for sale. These are great for knitting machines, or for weaving and handspinning purposes. For machine knitting, they are perfect. They are also great to use if you spin--that is, you can ply them in with your handspun single to create a beautiful novelty effect in your yarn. I will try to describe them as well as I can, but feel free to contact me if there is anything else I can tell you about them. Shipping (from 43952) is additional. Let me know which cones you'd like, I'll weigh them all together in a box and calculate the best shipping rate for you. Feel free to make me an offer on all.
#1. Medium gray double-ply fine lace weight yarn cone weighs approx. 2 lbs. 8.1 oz. (tag says 70% acrylic, 30% wool). Made in Spain. A very nice large cone of yarn for plying. or machine work. Priced at $18.

#2. Brown lace weight wool, double ply. No tag, but looks like wool. Weighs 1 lb. 4.9 oz. Priced at $10.00

#3. Barley colored fine lace weight wool(?no tag, but looks like wool?) cone weighing 1 lb. 10.9 oz. Priced at $12.




#4. Cream colored lace weight yarn, approximately 11 oz. Has a "fuzzy" quality, like wool, but a little shiny. Label says "Spectrell" -- maybe a blend? Priced at $6






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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Lace/fingering weight cone yarns, earth tones


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These yarns are a little heavier in gauge than in the previous post.






#5. gray-burgundy double ply lace weight yarn. This yarn has an interesting color. It is gray, but if you look closely, you see burgundy colored strands of fiber running through it. It looks like wool, but there is no tag. Weighs 11.6 oz. Priced at $8.00
















#6. Camel fingering weight wool. This cone is a light fingering weight double ply. I think it would make a good sock yarn, and I would guess that it might be pure wool, though the tag is gone. It doesn't have the tale-tell acrylic shine, or slippery feel. It has the "matte" feel of wool, if you know what I mean. It weighs 10.5 oz. I'll bet it would dye and I'll use it for socks if it doesn't sell. Offered at $12.



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#7. Charcoal gray light fingering weight double ply cone. Probably wool, a thin fingering weight that would probably do for socks. Cone weighs approximately 1 lb. 3.4 oz. Priced at $20. A very nice cone of yarn here.


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Earth Tones Cone yarns,





I am offering the following cone yarns for sale. These are great for knitting machines, or for weaving and handspinning purposes. I will try to describe them as well as I can, but feel free to contact me if there is anything else I can tell you about them. Shipping (from 43952) is additional. Let me know which cones you'd like, I'll weigh them all together in a box and calculate the best shipping rate for you. Feel free to make me an offer on all.

#1. Barley colored fine lace weight wool(?no tag, but looks like wool?) cone weighing 1 lb. 10.9 oz. Priced at $12.



















#2. Medium gray double-ply fine lace weight yarn cone weighs approx. 2 lbs. 8.1 oz. (tag says 70% acrylic, 30% wool). Made in Spain. A very nice large cone of yarn for plying. or machine work. Priced at $18.




































#3. Cream colored lace weight yarn, approximately 11 oz. Has a "fuzzy" quality, like wool, but a little shiny. Label says "Spectrell" -- maybe a blend? Priced at $6










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#4. Brown lace weight wool, double ply. No tag, but looks like wool. Weighs 1 lb. 4.9 oz. Priced at $10.00



Friday, September 19, 2008

Blue face leicester wool for sale



Today I am offering a natural white fleece from a sheep that is three quarters Blue face leicester, and a quarter Romney. This fleece is soft and has the typical BFL curls. I washed and rinsed it once, so most of the grease is gone and you won't be paying for grease weight. If I don't sell it, I'll wash and rinse it again and then probably dye it and make it into batts with some angora rabbit fur and maybe some spritzes of contrasting colored silk thrown in. That makes a great yarn. I am thinking of dyeing this fleece a deep royal blue, and the angora will be purple or teal. The silk will be dyed either purple or teal too. I've done it before, and it makes a beautiful yarn.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

pink angora mohair yarn



There are three of these skeins. Each skein is made of a strand of pink angora rabbit fiber plied with a strand of coordinating pink mohair and a strand of shimmery blue art thread. The yarn is very soft and will get fuzzier as you knit. Each of these skeins yields approximately 90 yds. The yarn is about a worsted weight. It is a delight to work with. So, all together, there are about 270 yds. of this handspun for sale.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

gray border leicester fleece



This is a gray border leicester fleece. Pretty soft, nice crimp, about 3 lbs. 4 ounces. Selling at $10 a pound plus shipping. Or, buy the whole thing for $25 plus shipping