03.05.07
Great Customers doing Great Things!
I just love it when customers share their projects.
To start with, it’s a cool thing just knowing what one long strand of yarn is capable of making…it’s even more cool to see what someone else is doing with that long strand that used to sit on your shelf.
This long strand (4 skeins to be exact) of Alpaca With A Twist Highlander in Birch is going to wrap a sweet little niece with love and warmth, from her Great Aunt.
Jane in NY state writes: “I think it’s gorgeous (I do too Jane!)! I used a basketweave sweater pattern from Morehouse Farm, a size 5 needle to get the correct gauge, and I found the perfect buttons at M & J Trimmings in NYC. It was a lovely yarn to work with.”
Carolyn, also in NY state, plunged into her first felting project with these beautiful felted bags using patterns from Knit N’ Style December 2006 magazine, size 10.5 US needles, and her long strand consisted of 3 skeins of YarnArt Absolute Wool yarn from The Local Needle.
It’s like transforming the catepillar into the butterfly!
The bad thing about felting tho…it’s addictive. I have not looked at my wool and alpaca the same way since completing my first felting project.
A sincere thank you to both of you for sharing, you really are great customers!
01.11.07
If you plant it, it will grow!
And that’s exactly what this idea did – GROW!
Cornucopia is a 100% corn yarn. I’m not entirely sure what they do to the corn to get it into it’s current yarn state, but I do know how one faithful Local Needle customer put it back into the state it was in, prior to being processed.
Look, little rows of corn!
This knitter thought it would be a brilliant idea to knit a sweater out of corn, have it look like corn, and have it worn by someone that works with corn! She did all this for her chemist friend that makes biofuels and synthetics from corn.
Anne used 14 skeins of Kollage Yarns’ Cornucopia to make approximately, a size 40 sweater. She says the yarn knits up quickly and is much softer than most cottons.
The ribbing was taken from Nicky Epstein’s Knitting on the Edge, an elongated “layered leaves” pattern. Then she cut and tied the tassels from a piece of Flutter yarn.
“I like to do something interesting for the ribbing, especially on a khaki stockinette sweater, and since it was corn yarn…”
She also showed great ingenuity when working in a dye lot mismatch…striping!
Anne has been knitting since college and her 35th reunion is approaching, so has a wealth of knitting experience!
Thanks Anne for sharing your wealth!
