We are bursting with excitement because Brooklyn Tweed’s new yarn is here! Meet Peerie. Peerie is a fingering weight, worsted spun, 100% merino wool yarn made entirely in the US. The sheep graze in Utah and Nevada, their fleece is spun in Springvale, Maine, and the resulting yarn is dyed in Saco, Maine. Brooklyn Tweed … [more]
This week brought us a big box of Malabrigo Mechita in nine brand new speckled colorways! Mechita is a single ply superwash merino in a fingering weight, with a generous 420 yards on each 100 gram skein. Suitable for sweaters, shawls, scarves, cowls, mitts, baby things and lightweight hats, Mechita has great potential. In fact, it’s … [more]
Shibui has just released their first-ever Limited Edition Color, and we’re delighted to have it on our shelves now! Petal is the shade, a bright pink that’s just right for the season. Petal comes in nine of Shibui’s yarns: lace weight Lunar, Pebble, Cima, and Silk Cloud, fingering weight Reed and Staccato, sport weight Twig … [more]
Last week brought an enormous shipment from Fyberspates, bursting with bags and bags of Vivacious 4ply. Vivacious 4ply is a high twist, superwash merino wool in fingering weight. Each 100 gram skein has 399 yards, enough for a pair of socks or mitts, a hat, scarf, or shawlette. We restocked all the colors we’ve ever had … [more]
We recently replenished our supply of Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball yarns, those colorful self-stripers in fingering and sport weight. Zauberball, Zauberball Crazy, and Zauberball Starke 6 all slowly change from one color to the next several yards at a time, so that whatever you’re knitting or crocheting with it comes out striped. All three of these yarns … [more]
We recently restocked a relatively new-to-us yarn, Tukuwool Fingering, which has quickly become a favorite. Anne and I were so excited when this enormous box arrived from Canada, especially because it held three brand new colors! Tukuwool Fingering is a woolen-spun, fingering weight blend of Finnsheep and Finnsheep-Texel wool, sourced and produced entirely in Finland. It’s … [more]
We are delighted to announce that Brooklyn Tweed’s newest yarn has arrived! Ranch 01 is a worsted weight, limited edition, ranch-specific Rambouillet yarn, which means every fiber in these skeins was sourced from a single flock of sheep living on Bare Ranch in Surprise Valley, CA. Brooklyn Tweed has always sought to highlight single breed … [more]
This spring, Shibui introduced a new yarn, Fern, but they also added three new colors to nearly every line of yarn they make. First is White, a brighter white than Shibui’s existing Ivory. You can see from the photo above that White varies from yarn to yarn, looking bleached and bright in Rain and Lunar, but … [more]
It’s been only a couple of months since Kelbourne Woolens debuted their very first yarn, Andorra, and already we’re welcoming their second! Meet Scout. Scout is a DK weight 2ply wool in heathered colorways, with a generous 274 yards on each 100 gram skein. It knits up at a gauge of 20-22 stitches over 4″ … [more]
Today was the first day of Spring, though dropping temperatures and a prediction of snow had us doubtful. Still and all, warm weather is coming, and that means new plant fiber yarns are popping up at the Hillsborough Yarn Shop. Last week, I introduced Shibui Fern, an organic cotton – today, let’s meet Shibui Reed! … [more]