universal yarn

Don’t get unspun by single-ply yarns!

This week we’re looking at Classic Shades Frenzy by Universal Yarn. It’s a single ply yarn that has a marled look and several gradients of colors in one skein. Yesterday we looked at the 4 newest colorways, Botanica, Quarry, Fern, and Madras. There are many yarns that are single-ply yarns…

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Revive your knitting with marled gradient yarns!

This week, we’ll be exploring Classic Shades Frenzy by Universal Yarn. This soft bulky yarn is full of color and the way the yarn was spun makes it easy to knit without any of the struggles of some multi-color knitting techniques because it is a marled gradient yarn. I’ve blogged…

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Knitting with Prose self-striping sock yarn

This week I’ll be knitting with Prose Sock Yarn. It’s a superwash wool yarn that is produced by Wisdom Yarns. Below, you can see the “Foxy” colorway. I really like the blend of warm grays and taupe with the bright stripe of a warm, foxy orange. Prose Sock Yarn is…

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Knit a glamorous evening bag from scrap yarn

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…

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