{"id":378,"date":"2010-05-14T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2010-05-14T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T20:09:39","slug":"yarn-from-far-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Yarn from Far Places…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My paper copy of Northern Knits by Lucinda Guy arrived on Monday and while thumbing through it I remembered that I wanted to knit the cover design, the lovely and delicate looking Pia laceweight Pullover. It uses Ullcentrum \u00c3\u2013land One Thread Yarn<\/a>, which is a lace weight of course and is literally one thread, no plies. I’ve never knit anything in a lace weight. I tend to use aran weight for cardigans etc. and still have at least seven cardis in various stages of progress on the needles. So I shouldn’t really be contemplating knitting anything new…but…. Well, I’d been considering my knitwear recently. I’d been thinking about the fact that I hardly wear any of my handknit cardis in work, mainly because it tends to be too warm. I tend to wear thin, storebought cardis, often in black. <\/span><\/p>\n

Logic would dictate that I should knit more lighter cardis and in black because I’d be more likely to wear them. Fine things can also be scrunched into a bag more easily. But knitting in black doesn’t thrill me and nether really does the prospect of working with thin yarns. Why then did I decide, completely out of the blue then, to order four skeins of lace weight yarn? You see I got home after work on Monday and found myself googling Ullcentrum \u00c3\u2013land and ordering four skeins of the one thread from them in the red shade. It arrived yesterday<\/p>\n

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Ullcentrum \u00c3\u2013land Order<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are some closeups<\/p>\n

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Ullcentrum \u00c3\u2013land One Thread closeup 1<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ullcentrum \u00c3\u2013land One Thread closeup 2<\/p><\/div>\n

When I interviewed Lucinda for KnitCast<\/a> she told me that you have to wash the finished garment in quite hot water in order to full the sweater and I was a little alarmed at first by this idea, but now that I’ve seen the yarn I understand why. It’s made traditionally and is of a course texture when you first handle it. It still has bits of twigs in which remind me of Noro yarns. I expect that it will look beautiful once it’s been washed and blocked but I’m not too sure what it’ll be like to knit with.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pattern calls for you to cast on 400 odd stitches which did make me swallow when I read it! But I’ve wound one skein into a ball and was ready cast on last night until I realised that I couldn’t find my 80cm long 3mm circulars. So I’ve ordered two pairs – one bamboo and one addi turbo and will see which handle the yarn best. I do hope that I don’t find myself becoming perturbed by all the stitches, I do have such a lack of patience sometimes, and that I finish it but we shall see!
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