Yarn comes to me in different ways. Most of it is bought by me, but some comes to me from family and friends. So it was that this ball of yarn came to me on Friday night.
Jami and John invited us to their home on Friday evening for a Southwestern feast. Good Mexican food is not easily found in Vancouver so we were excited to see what Jami had prepared. It was a wonderfully flavoured red mole with chicken. It was full of nutty goodness and the best part was we brought some home and have enjoyed a couple of meals of leftovers. BTW she also made a killer chocolate pudding with avocado. Yum, yum and yum.
But back to the yarn. Jami said she had been attending a workshop and as she was leaving the multi-coloured ball of yarn shown above was just hanging out all by itself. She looked around to see if its owner could be found, the owner wasn't found so she decided to take it home. She does know a knitter, and now I'm the lucky recipient. It came to me just as you see it above without its label and perhaps with some of the yarn used for another project.
So here it is this found yarn in lovely earthy tones calling out to be used. At my place on Saturday I became some sort of yarn detective. Aside from smelling like the red mole, it also smelled like real wool; it also feels like wool. That determination has been verified because it has plant foreign material in it like real wool as well. It is worsted wool, this I know because of my fumblings and bumblings with wool. It is too thick for sock or DK and too thin for bulky weight wool. Then it was weighed and found to be 59 grams or approximately 120 yards of wool. (There was a certain amount of looking at several websites and speculation to come up with this number.) That is not a lot of yarn, the average baby sweater in newborn size takes about 300 yards.
Jami and John invited us to their home on Friday evening for a Southwestern feast. Good Mexican food is not easily found in Vancouver so we were excited to see what Jami had prepared. It was a wonderfully flavoured red mole with chicken. It was full of nutty goodness and the best part was we brought some home and have enjoyed a couple of meals of leftovers. BTW she also made a killer chocolate pudding with avocado. Yum, yum and yum.
But back to the yarn. Jami said she had been attending a workshop and as she was leaving the multi-coloured ball of yarn shown above was just hanging out all by itself. She looked around to see if its owner could be found, the owner wasn't found so she decided to take it home. She does know a knitter, and now I'm the lucky recipient. It came to me just as you see it above without its label and perhaps with some of the yarn used for another project.
So here it is this found yarn in lovely earthy tones calling out to be used. At my place on Saturday I became some sort of yarn detective. Aside from smelling like the red mole, it also smelled like real wool; it also feels like wool. That determination has been verified because it has plant foreign material in it like real wool as well. It is worsted wool, this I know because of my fumblings and bumblings with wool. It is too thick for sock or DK and too thin for bulky weight wool. Then it was weighed and found to be 59 grams or approximately 120 yards of wool. (There was a certain amount of looking at several websites and speculation to come up with this number.) That is not a lot of yarn, the average baby sweater in newborn size takes about 300 yards.
So I know it is
* wool
* worsted weight
* about 120 yards
What does one make with so little yarn? A short scarf? one sock? both are possible, but instead I fixated on knitting another toque/hat. And after some time checking out other websites, this is what I decided upon Barley from Tin Can Knits. It's an easy, no frills toque that suits this yarn to a tee. Here's their version of Barley:
I am knitting as fast as I can to see if I actually calculated the yardage properly. Everyone, keep your fingers crossed I have a sense it will be very close. But then remembering I am me, I do also have a Plan B should it be necessary.
* worsted weight
* about 120 yards
What does one make with so little yarn? A short scarf? one sock? both are possible, but instead I fixated on knitting another toque/hat. And after some time checking out other websites, this is what I decided upon Barley from Tin Can Knits. It's an easy, no frills toque that suits this yarn to a tee. Here's their version of Barley:
And here's mine so far.
I am knitting as fast as I can to see if I actually calculated the yardage properly. Everyone, keep your fingers crossed I have a sense it will be very close. But then remembering I am me, I do also have a Plan B should it be necessary.
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