Knit Design Online Student Blog

Category: Yarns & Fibres

  • Working with bulky yarns (from the latest Knitty.com)

    I haven’t looked at the article but Kate Atherley is brilliant, so it’s bound to be good. http://knitty.com/ISSUEw16/FEATw16wk/FEATw16wk.php Update from Yvonne: This has jogged my memory! There are some articles on pattern writing by Kate Atherley on the Love Knitting blog. http://blog.loveknitting.com/?s=kate+atherley

  • Good film of wool processing

    Taken from the new Blacker Yarns website: http://www.thenaturalfibre.co.uk/media-centre/video/through-mill-how-we-add-value-your-fleece  

  • A colour story story

    Past student Sue James is a founding mover and shaker of the Cambrian Wool project.  This link takes you to an interesting post about selecting the colours to dye the Welsh wool yarn.  Written as beautifully as Sue always writes, she manages to capture amazing imagery in her words. http://cambrianwool.co.uk/welsh-wool-colour-story/  

  • Knitbritish on worsted yarn

      http://www.knitbritish.net/ep-64/    

  • Wool study: helpful info

    Sandra H just sent this useful link to New Lanark Mills website: https://www.newlanarkshop.co.uk/our-wool-process.irs  

  • Fleece and fibre samples

    From a decades old fine/yarn study folder (I’m trying to clear some things out), I thought you might find the different sheep fleece samples interesting.  How much they vary in staple length and crimp.  One of the highlights in New Zealand was visiting student Beverley Forrester’s Black Hills sheep farm & getting to feel the…

  • Undyed yarn website

    I thought this website might have some useful information for your Fibre/Yarn study.  The descriptions of differences in wool of different sheep breeds is clear & concise. http://www.yarnundyed.net/acatalog/Polwarth-Lustre-Wool-Yarn.html

  • Fairfield Yarns

    Don’t forget there is a yarn supplier list in M1.  One of these (and not very well known) is Fairfield Yarns, whose main business started as a supplier to universities/colleges for their degree students.  They don’t carry repeatable stock in quite the same way as retail yarn suppliers but will source & match things for…

  • Shetland & Jamieson’s yarns

    The colours of Shetland will stay with me for a long while – and I bought yarns in the colours I saw, so I can put them it into knitting. I know that on a less sunny day it would look completely different and in a few weeks the heather will be out and then…

  • Lopi wool

    This article came via a Knitters Review link & I thought it might be useful to go in your Fibre/Yarn study folder.  The yarn sampling  packs I am in the process of sending out contain several Lopi yarns, I love using them for Aran type / cabled knits and for textured sttich patterns. http://www.knittersreview.com/article_yarn.asp?article=/review/product/120906_a.asp