This is mostly a knitting blog. Sometimes pictures of things I've made, sometimes not. I'm a guy who knits, I usually attend a men's stitch 'n' bitch on Monday nights, and I prefer natural fibres to artificial ones. I have a love-hate relationship with bamboo yarns: I love what they can do and how they look, I hate how they are made. I've been knitting since about 2003, though I really didn't get into it until 2005, while convelescing with a broken leg. I must have discovered something good, 'cause I'm still knitting years later.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Forever Yarn, Neighborhood Fiber, and Yarn Harlotry

Every year my friends Libby and John host a bunch of us from our Div School days at their house for a weekend of relaxing, singing, eating, and general relaxation. One of the things we like to do is trek into Doylestown and visit the shops. One of the shops where I tend to spend the most money is the yarn store, Forever Yarn, really wonderful yarn store that carries things that I can't find in my local yarn stores in Boston. Yan, the owner of Forever Yarn, is solicitous, knowledgeable, and very welcoming. When I walked in, while she couldn't remember my name, she remembered who I was, knew that I was in town for an unofficial school reunion, and recommended several very beautiful yarns for me to peruse. I bought the following yarns, most of it Neighborhood Fiber, which is apparently a local Boston yarn, but which I've never seen in any of my LYSs back home in Boston.

This colour is Del Rey, a fabulous yarn with an amazing patina. I have no idea what I will make with 475 yards of this superwash merino, but it's soooo gorgeous!

This is Georgetown, and while it looks more blue in this photo, it is really more of a purple. I'm thinking a fine lace shawl for someone. It's one of my favourite colours.

Fells Point reminds me of Madeleine Tosh's Malachite, and this photo is a bit washed out (but is the best of the ones I took), and I will pair it with the next yarn.

This is Truxten Circle. It really is a gorgeous yarn, and will be paired with the Fells Point.

Won't that make a kick-ass shawl? I need to ask my friend Valaree to help me find a pattern that will work well with these colours.

Olde Towne East (I wonder why East doesn't have a final e?) and if you don't understand that blue is my favourite colour, then you don't know me very well. I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with this, but damn, look at that colour!

This is a Noro I've never seen before, Kama. 26% wool, 25% silk, 25% alpaca, 12% kid mohair, and 12% angora, it's really soft and the colours are intense, in that way that only Noro colours can be. I will make a Brooklyn Striped Scarf with these, for Carlene, and think the colours will work wonderfully together.


This is a yarn I've not seen before, Terra Natural Inspiration, 40% baby alpaca, 40% wool, and 20% silk. It could make a pair of fingerless mitts (which I've never made before), and Yan at Forever Yarn gave me a pattern for such. Might be fun.

Yan very kindly gave me this skein of yarn after buying everything I bought, Frolicking Feet, in dungaree blue, it's 100% superwash merino, and it's a sock yarn. But with this much, I can make a shawlette or some such.

What an awesome collection of yarn I was able to gather. And working with Yan at Forever Yarn was just a delightful experience. Now I've got a lot of cool stuff to knit (read: add to my stash). And the colours of the Neighborhood Fiber yarns really rocks my stripy socks!

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  1. Lovely. Karida must have moved. She does colorways for the neighborhoods in the cities where she's lived. You'll see a lot of DC and Columbus neighborhoods. Her yarn is *amazing*; I bought a skein of her Watershed in the Cooper Circle colorway, and the amazing red undertones in a mostly-brown variegation just blew me away. It was lovely to work with as well. She does amazing things with color. You won't be disappointed.

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    1. I noticed that the yarns I got are named after Boston neighbourhoods. I'm really excited to try this stuff. It's so amazingly soft and looks like it's going to have amazing drape.

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