{"id":7353,"date":"2015-08-08T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2015-08-07T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T01:47:38","slug":"hello-swans-island-all-american-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/yarn\/hello-swans-island-all-american-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Swans Island All American Sport."},"content":{"rendered":"

The newest yarn from Swans Island has arrived at the shop! Meet All American Sport.<\/p>\n

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All American Sport is a 2-ply woolen-spun yarn composed of 100% Rambouillet wool, a little cousin\u00a0of sorts to Swans Island All American Worsted<\/a>. There are 185 yards on each 40 gram skein, every bit\u00a0of which was grown, processed, spun, and dyed in the USA. This yarn is a unique combination of next-to-skin soft and holds-its-shape sturdy, and was created with stranded colorwork in mind. That’s why it comes in this huge selection of colors.<\/p>\n

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For a newly released yarn from a small, thoughtful company, this is one outrageous color palette! There’s something for everyone and every project here, whether you favor brights, neutrals, pastels, or jewel tones.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWoolen-spun\u201d means that the yarn is\u00a0spun from fiber that has been carded, but not combed. The carding process organizes the fibers to some degree, but they are not as smoothly aligned as combed fibers, giving\u00a0woolen-spun yarns a rustic look.<\/p>\n

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Woolen-spun yarns like All American Sport\u00a0are also quite\u00a0lofty, making them versatile in terms of gauge. Swans Island suggests a\u00a0gauge of 6\u00a0stitches per inch, but All American Sport\u00a0is happy at a range of gauges. After washing, the fibers bloom to fill whatever space your needles have given them. The swatch above illustrates this, as I knit it using needles from US #3 – 6.<\/p>\n

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Does it come as any surprise that I am utterly enamored of this yarn? I took so many pictures of it that there just isn’t room in one blog post, so you can look forward to a second installment soon, covering the glorious pattern collection that accompanies this special yarn. In the meantime, come by the shop to ooh and ahh over Swans Island All American Sport!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest yarn from Swans Island has arrived at the shop! Meet All American Sport. All American Sport is a 2-ply woolen-spun yarn composed of 100% Rambouillet wool, a little cousin\u00a0of sorts to Swans Island All American Worsted. There are 185 yards on each 40 gram skein, every bit\u00a0of which was grown, processed, spun, and … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[197,158,66,40,100],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}