Comments: Score!

That halo looks like Angora to me, awfully soft and blurry for mohair. What a great find! Watch it carefully or the NoName sweater might put it in the mail to the Pacific NW US...

Posted by Sheila at January 30, 2004 11:02 AM

Maybe so Sheila, but I suspect that it's my photography that's "soft and blurry". The fuzzy stuff has a staple length of about 5", which was why I suspected mohair. I don't know much about angora, can it have such a long fibre length? This stuff is pretty soft...

Posted by Stephanie at January 30, 2004 11:17 AM

Steph, I'm so glad to see you're blogging. I've always loved your posts on the lists. You are such an entertaining & witty writer. I'm linking your blog right away.

Don't let that cardi push you around, show it who's boss! LOL :-) I'm so *ENVIOUS* of your bargain find at Value Village. Wow! A $1.99CAN for all that yarn? You lucky gal, you.

Posted by Kristin at January 30, 2004 12:08 PM

That might have constituted fibre porn.... Pardon me whilst I go wipe the drool off my face.

Posted by Lene at January 30, 2004 12:09 PM

Yep. That sounds like my Value Village - half balls of neon acrylic. I did find some very nice coloured aluminum Boye knitting needles there once though. Your lace-weight yarn looks fabulous. I'm looking for some myself but refuse to pay through the schnoz for it. Someday I'll stumble across some too. Send me karma?

Posted by peggy at January 30, 2004 3:57 PM

Oh thank you, thank you Stephanie- not just for the blog (which is great btw) but also giving me some ray of hope. It dawned on me this week that everytime someone mentions a great and indispensible acquisition (swift, ebony circular, gotland fleece, cute needle holder...) i feel the *need* to track one down for myself- it is like a weird quest. But, a miracle must have happened, i read your blog and (while i felt joy at your score) I didnt need to buy lace weight. I must be cured!

Posted by Sarah at January 30, 2004 6:45 PM

I'm with you, Sarah.
Steph, feuille de chou, did you not notice that besides being very nearly THREAD, your lovely woolly find is WHITE?
Oh la, the agony of watching endless miles of uncolored skinny wool knit on kinda too big needles (for laciness, dontcha know) makes me feel woozy.
Please show me the Fleece Artist sock wool again before I swoon.

Posted by Kathy Merrick at January 30, 2004 9:27 PM

Sturdy up ladies. Laceweight is a little known joy. Bring on the tiny needles, the miniscule yarn, the complex patterns. Be still my heart. Kathy, colour is a transient. I'm seriously contemplating dyeing a whole whack of this a nice green. Some will stay white though...I'm thinking about a snowdrop shawl. Ohhh..I made myself a little dizzy with happiness there.

Posted by Stephanie at January 30, 2004 10:12 PM

Hey, Stephanie, that's beautiful stuff. Kit will be so envious. ;-) That's a lovely little piece of lace, too. Congrats on the find, and ignoring the siren call of the sweater. I've been successfully ignoring about 5 of them for a while now. It gets easier with time.

Posted by Sam at January 31, 2004 12:08 AM

Look! Even that needle is drooping from the weight of all that snow! If I tell you to throw a snowball for me, will the cardigan pick up one of those balls of laceweight and hurl it?

-Alison, snow-deprived in California, having previously lived in New Hampshire's frozen tundra

Posted by Alison Hyde at January 31, 2004 12:35 AM

okay, so what is the lace secret? I have tried and tried, on 3 different occasions that I can remember. I have this lovely ball of laceweigh merino with which I have tortured myself. In november I bought a kit to make 3 lacey bookmarks out of kiviut, no could do. I can knit beaded bracelet and that is on DM pearl cotton so I know that I can knit on really small needles and also with tiny yarn/thread. I can even read the patterns but put laceweight yarn on bigger needles and I can't do it, boo hoo.

Posted by susanna at January 31, 2004 7:39 PM

Mais non-it is not the laceweight aspect of your score that is the problem- it is...(peeling another 5 fibres off my lip salve)...the mohair.

Freakily i too am an afficianado of snowdrop lace-i have a scarf/stole on the needles using that very pattern, being knitted in midnight blue cobweb weight cashmere. I found it in my yarn aladdin's cave and paid 70p for a sample cone of 27g-is that about $1 (US) for 1oz?

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