Category: yarn

  • About 2 hours of spinning…

    Ready to be plied when I get home from class tonight. I have no more white corriedale (I had bought a pound, also spun up a bunch at Denny’s that time). Damn. This wheel ROCKS. Student discount, too!

  • stash sale!

    Take some stuff off my poor little hands! Send an email to cosmicpluto@cosmicpluto.com if you want something. Do not send a payment until confirmed! Prices are in USD and include shipping to the United States. If you’re in Canada, let me know (and include your postal code) and I’ll give you a Canadian price.

    Everything’s from a smoke free home. I take Paypal balance transfer only.

    Crystal Palace Bamboo Needles – great for magic loop socks!
    Size: US 0, 2.0 mm
    Length: 35”
    $11 includes shipping

    GGH Goa – 1 skein – perfect for a “Coif” from Knitty
    Content: 50% cotton, 50% acrylic
    Yardage: 60 m
    Gauge: 13 sts/19 rows over 4” on 5-6 mm needles
    Colour: 46, Dyelot 2563
    $6 includes shipping

    Bernat Cottontots – 1 skein
    Content: 100% cotton
    Weight: 4 oz, no yardage given
    Gauge: 20 sts/26 rows over 4” on 4.5 mm needles
    Colour: 90129 (“Blue Berry”), dyelot 104003
    $6 includes shipping

    Schachenmayr Aurora Color – 6 skeins
    Content: 55% cotton, 45% acrylic
    Yardage: 90 m
    Gauge: 18 sts/24 rows over 4” on 5-6 mm needles
    Colour: 85 (“Summer Sky”), dyelot 6461
    $16 includes shipping


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    Camilla Valley Farm Unmercerized Cotton – 1 cone – enough for a summer top!
    Content: 100% cotton
    Yardage: 840 yds
    Gauge: yarn is 8/8, so worsted weight, about 20 sts/4”
    Colour: light pink
    $18 includes shipping

    Assorted Lovelies! – clockwise from top
    Blue Heron Mercerized Cotton (100% cotton, laceweight) – partial skein
    Hand Maiden Silk/Cashmere (4 ply 55% silk, 45% cashmere, DK weight) – partial skein
    Jaggerspun Zephyr (50% merino, 50% tussah silk) – partial skein
    Classic Elite Inca Alpaca (100% alpaca, DK weight) – 1 full skein
    no labels, but I’ll label ‘em so you know what’s what.
    $24 includes shipping

    Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed – 3 skeins
    Content: 85% wool, 10% silk, 5% cashmere
    Yardage: 104 yds/ 95 m
    Gauge: 18 sts/24 rows over 4” using US 8 (5 mm) needles
    Colour: 129 (“enamel”), dyelot 252
    $14 includes shipping

    Katia Pisco – 5 skeins
    Content: 50% cotton, 35% acrylic, 15% linen
    Yardage: 98 yds/ 90 m
    Gauge: 15 sts/22 rows over 4” on 4.5-5 mm needles
    Colour: 22 (“mid beige”), dyelot 74454
    $15 includes shipping

    Assorted Cottons!
    Elann Sonata – 3 skeins
    100% cotton, burgundy rose, 115 yds, 22 sts/28 rows on 4 mm needles
    TLC Cotton Plus – 1 skein
    51% cotton, 49% acrylic, colour 3907 (red), 186 yds, 20 sts/25 rows on 5 mm needles
    Madil All Seasons – 1.5 skeins
    50% cotton, 50% viscose, colour 206 (rose), 153 yds, 22 sts/26 rows on 3.5-4mm needles
    Lion Brand Cotton-Ease – 1 skein
    50% cotton, 50% acrylic, colour cherry red, 207 yds, 17 sts/24 rows on 5 mm needles
    Ecoknit Organic Cotton – 1 skein, no label
    100% organic cotton, natural, more than 100 yds, DK weight (22 sts = 4”)
    $20 includes shipping

    Email me if you want anything!

  • zippy

    The Licorice cardi is finally, finally done!

    I had the wonderful Megan H. put in the zipper for me, and she did a most fantastic job.

    Licorice cardi
    Pattern: see pattern notes
    Yarn: Lion Brand Cotton-ease, Licorice, 5.5 skeins
    Needles: Denise US 6 & 7 (4 and 4.5 mm)
    Started: April 23, 2005
    Finished: May 30, 2005

    Pattern notes:
    This sweater is a bottom-up raglan, with the body done in one piece and the sleeves in the round. I started from Rosedale, but changed many things. Details:
    – knit-in hem on body and sleeves
    – front bands done with a knit in slip-stitch facing
    – different shaping on both body and sleeves
    – pocket from Rogue
    – collar…well. I did a rolled collar, but the wrong way. Then I sewed it down with the stockinette side facing out.

    Soft, super comfy, machine wash, with a zipper! It’s my new go-to cardi!

    Something else finished…finished yarn.

    2 skeins of colonial wool top, hand-dyed, bought from eBay. The colours are amazing and it was super easy to spin – although definitely took some time on the drop spindle! (need wheel now.) It’s only about 200 yards total, bulky 2-ply. The spinning and plying are…not that great. But it’s still pretty, and was a learning experience right? Now the question is, what to do with it?