Welcome to this week’s posts on KNITmuch where I’ll be exploring Rozetti Yarns Alaska – a light and airy yarn that surrounds you with warmth and softness. When I was first introduced to Alaska, it softly whispered “touch me”. I was not disappointed, as it is as soft on the…
Alpaculence is a light fingering weight yarn. Cynthia MacDougall has researched some patterns that would showcase this blend of acrylic, wool, alpaca and glitter.
This week we’re reviewing Alpaculence, a singles yarn made by Rozetti Yarns. Monday we learned that the yarn I’m sampling this week is in “pre-production mode,” and yesterday we learned that my stockinette stitch sample skewed from a square into a parallelogram. That led to a discussion about balance in…
Yesterday, I introduced the new Alpaculence, an acrylic/ wool/ alpaca/ glitter blend yarn by Rozetti Yarns. Having evaluated the qualities and taken an “inventory” of this yarn, let’s move on to my next step in “new yarn evaluation” – swatching. When approaching a new yarn, once I’ve held it and evaluated…
This week we’ve been making projects from yarn scraps from the blogs we did in 2016 with Universal Yarn. I’ve saved the best — and scrappiest — project for last. So far this week, we’ve made a Cowl by Chance, learned to adjust a pattern for a different weight of…