Went on yarn crawl yesterday.
May. 9th, 2004 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynIt's like a pub crawl, only your group hits yarn stores instead of pubs. Said crawl took place in midtown and lower Manhattan; we hit four or five stores, but did not get to Knit NY, the cafe where people go to drink coffee, knit, and meet people. I bought two skeins of THE YARN THAT ATE CLEVELAND, which is to say Wool Pak Yarns' 14-ply in royal blue- we're talking 250 grams for 310 yards here, pure wool. Also a size 9 24-inch Addi Turbo circular needle. Am at work on a vest already.
Any road, I took some pictures of the places we did go. Or, rather, of the available yarns, in case someone can't make it to New York themselves.
This is not a yarn picture. It is a picture of a big green plastic or metal turtle with what may be a Buddhist rosary around its neck. It's somewhere in Soho and bugger if I can figure out why it's where it is.
Hand-dyed yarns in the hallway at Seaport Yarns, which is on Fulton Street, down near the South Street Seaport. Fifth floor.
No matter how fast your webcam is, don't turn away until the bloody thing beeps. I'd never seen yarn labeled 'techno hair' before.
From the big hand-dyed pile.
From the bigger hand-dyed shelf. I think some of those are lace weight or sport weight.
I believe these are hand-dyed six packs from Cherry Tree Hill Yarns or some other company of that name, located in Vermont.
Did you know they sell yarn made entirely from bamboo fiber now? I didn't. It's really quite soft to the touch, too.
Closeup of the bamboo yarn label.
More from the Vermont company, plus some sample knit items. The stuff in the background is several shelves of alpaca and other non-standard fibers.
These were about $12 a skein.
I have a few other shots of one particular knit sample, but I need to mail those to the woman in our group who wanted to duplicate the item....
Any road, I took some pictures of the places we did go. Or, rather, of the available yarns, in case someone can't make it to New York themselves.
This is not a yarn picture. It is a picture of a big green plastic or metal turtle with what may be a Buddhist rosary around its neck. It's somewhere in Soho and bugger if I can figure out why it's where it is.
Hand-dyed yarns in the hallway at Seaport Yarns, which is on Fulton Street, down near the South Street Seaport. Fifth floor.
No matter how fast your webcam is, don't turn away until the bloody thing beeps. I'd never seen yarn labeled 'techno hair' before.
From the big hand-dyed pile.
From the bigger hand-dyed shelf. I think some of those are lace weight or sport weight.
I believe these are hand-dyed six packs from Cherry Tree Hill Yarns or some other company of that name, located in Vermont.
Did you know they sell yarn made entirely from bamboo fiber now? I didn't. It's really quite soft to the touch, too.
Closeup of the bamboo yarn label.
More from the Vermont company, plus some sample knit items. The stuff in the background is several shelves of alpaca and other non-standard fibers.
These were about $12 a skein.
I have a few other shots of one particular knit sample, but I need to mail those to the woman in our group who wanted to duplicate the item....
