Recently I ordered yarn from Wool Warehouse, which is in the U.K. I got this giant ball of wool-blend tweed in the colorway Scree.
This sample for my just-released Bobblelini pattern barely made a dent in the as-big-as-your-head 400-gram ball. (I have 347 grams of yarn left.)
Since I'm primarily a hatmaker, I don't really need
huge yardage of a specific yarn. I tend to get only hat quantities of a yarn, 1 or 2 skeins. Variety over volume.
However, there's something to be said for a big ball of yarn! For instance, I wouldn't hesitate to make a
l-o-n-g roll-up brim on a hat, confident that I won't run out of yarn before I finish. How comforting to know that there will always -- always! -- be enough yarn to make a pom-pom, and not a skimpy one at that.
And, when you're using a giant ball of yarn, you're never playing yarn chicken, worrying about running out of yarn before you run out of rows. A very good thing.
Here are the yarn specs: Wendy with Wool Aran Tweed is 20 percent wool, 77 percent acrylic and 3 percent viscose. It's lovely, tweedy and soft -- plus machine washable and dryable.
P.S. My Bobblelini pattern is also available on Etsy here. The link near the top is for my Ravelry store.
This sample for my just-released Bobblelini pattern barely made a dent in the as-big-as-your-head 400-gram ball. (I have 347 grams of yarn left.)
Since I'm primarily a hatmaker, I don't really need
huge yardage of a specific yarn. I tend to get only hat quantities of a yarn, 1 or 2 skeins. Variety over volume.
However, there's something to be said for a big ball of yarn! For instance, I wouldn't hesitate to make a
l-o-n-g roll-up brim on a hat, confident that I won't run out of yarn before I finish. How comforting to know that there will always -- always! -- be enough yarn to make a pom-pom, and not a skimpy one at that.
And, when you're using a giant ball of yarn, you're never playing yarn chicken, worrying about running out of yarn before you run out of rows. A very good thing.
Here are the yarn specs: Wendy with Wool Aran Tweed is 20 percent wool, 77 percent acrylic and 3 percent viscose. It's lovely, tweedy and soft -- plus machine washable and dryable.
P.S. My Bobblelini pattern is also available on Etsy here. The link near the top is for my Ravelry store.
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