Treasures from Wild Geese Fibers
Barb from Wild Geese send an email to let everyone know her new fall yarns are in stock! Needless to say I beat a path to the site and drooled and hemmed and hawed trying to make up my mind! I mean, it would be nice to just buy everything you wanted and as much of it as you wanted, right? Unfortunately some of us are forced to live in the real world where credit card statements actually get delivered.... Never-the-less here's what I figured I'd better grab while I knew it was available ... (and it's SO nice I'm not placing any bets on it being available indefinitely!)
2 Dark skeins of 12% Soay 88% Alpaca 3 skeins TOTAL Luxury sock yarn
2 Lighter skeins Triple Luxury 10% silk, 50% alpaca, 30% mohair, 10% merino
30% Quivit, 30% Alpaca, 30% Merino top
For those of you wondering, Soay are a very rare sheep breed that look alot more like mountain goats. The sock yarn is to die for and the Triple Luxury quivit blend is exquisite! So now I just have my usual problem - what projects could possibly be worthy of such magnificent yarn???
I'm actually considering buying one more skein of the sock yarn so I can double strand it and make some socks for my DS who works outdoors. I'm thinking I might turn the Soay blend into a moebus like the one in EZ's book (see previous post). If there's not enough yardage I guess I'll just have to buy another skein of that too!
One thing about the quivit blend, which for me was an added bonus, was to find a few guard hairs in it from the muskox! Yes, I know, usually guard hairs are frowned on in any yarn but these were of boundless fascination to me and I hunted and hunted until I found them all, about 10 in total. They are as smooth as fishing line filament - really! - and about 6-8" long. Call me silly, I don't think I would have been more excited unless I had received an actual muskox in the parcel! Having been around livestock my whole life, this is a critter I have never come in contact with. Yes, the down is in the yarn, but these guard hairs were magical to me.... completely new and exciting....
Of course a photo like this doesn't come close to capturing their shiny, shiny smooth surface, but aren't they remarkable? I wonder if the Inuit used them as thread for sewing mocassins and clothing... touching a long forgotten past with that thought .....
I also bought some Jacob sheep roving to spin but I didn't take any pics of it. That can wait until it's spun....
2 Dark skeins of 12% Soay 88% Alpaca 3 skeins TOTAL Luxury sock yarn
2 Lighter skeins Triple Luxury 10% silk, 50% alpaca, 30% mohair, 10% merino
30% Quivit, 30% Alpaca, 30% Merino top
For those of you wondering, Soay are a very rare sheep breed that look alot more like mountain goats. The sock yarn is to die for and the Triple Luxury quivit blend is exquisite! So now I just have my usual problem - what projects could possibly be worthy of such magnificent yarn???
I'm actually considering buying one more skein of the sock yarn so I can double strand it and make some socks for my DS who works outdoors. I'm thinking I might turn the Soay blend into a moebus like the one in EZ's book (see previous post). If there's not enough yardage I guess I'll just have to buy another skein of that too!
One thing about the quivit blend, which for me was an added bonus, was to find a few guard hairs in it from the muskox! Yes, I know, usually guard hairs are frowned on in any yarn but these were of boundless fascination to me and I hunted and hunted until I found them all, about 10 in total. They are as smooth as fishing line filament - really! - and about 6-8" long. Call me silly, I don't think I would have been more excited unless I had received an actual muskox in the parcel! Having been around livestock my whole life, this is a critter I have never come in contact with. Yes, the down is in the yarn, but these guard hairs were magical to me.... completely new and exciting....
Of course a photo like this doesn't come close to capturing their shiny, shiny smooth surface, but aren't they remarkable? I wonder if the Inuit used them as thread for sewing mocassins and clothing... touching a long forgotten past with that thought .....
I also bought some Jacob sheep roving to spin but I didn't take any pics of it. That can wait until it's spun....
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