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Knitter's choice:
Wool Gathering No. 70 |
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Ultra Alpaca — Our newest offering:a beautifully soft blend of 50% Superfine Alpaca/50% Peruvian Wool in 23 rich colors. Excellent for baby/toddler garments, vests, sweaters and shawls. 3.5 oz. skein, 215 yards, 4 to 5 sts to 1 inch. Note: The mill drops and adds colors several times per year; if you see a color you love stock up. $8.50 |
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Sheepswool — Unbleached, undyed sheep-shades of Cream, Pale Gray, Medium Gray, and Blacksheep. Ideal for Faroese sweaters, plus Arans and Guernseys, caps and mittens. 2- or 3-ply. 2-ply, 210 yds— 4 to 4-1/2 sts to 1 inch; 3-ply 130 yds—3 to 3-1/2 sts to inch 4 oz. skein, $7.00 |
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Rangeley —This is the 2-ply Sheepswool (above) dyed in a rich array of beautiful jewel tones. Lupine was used in the video, Cardigan Details; which is also shown in Meg Swansen's Knitting book. 210 yds— 4 to 4-1/2 sts to 1 inch, $7.00 |
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Québécoise — Lovely, bold, crayon colors; this firmly spun and plied wool is long-wearing, and excellent for Bavarian Twisted Stitch, Norwegian sweaters, socks, caps, mittens and Aran sweaters. 3.5 oz. skein, 210 yds—5 to 6 sts to 1 inch, $5.75 |
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Sheepsdown — Custom-spun for us. Thick, soft, and undyed. Four shades. Lovely for blankets, coats, hats and Salish jackets. Gauge is about 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 sts to 1". If you are making a sweater with this beautiful stuff, be sure to add extra stitches to the circumference, as the OUTside measurement will vary significantly from the INside and you need to ensure plenty of room for the wearer. 85 yds—2 to 3 sts to 1 inch, $7.00 |
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Satakieli —is imported directly from Finland specifically for the magnificent mittens found in Lizbeth Upitis' beautiful book, Latvian Mittens. It also knits up splendidly into socks, stockings, or caps, as well as sweaters (see WG# 67, Giant Latvian Mitten Cardigan) and lace (see Amy Detjen's Beginners Shawl in A Gathering of Lace). 3.5 oz. skein, 360 yards—6 to 8 sts to 1 inch, $14.50 |
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Shetland Jumper-Weight *— The real stuff, imported directly from the Shetland Isles. For Fair Isle sweaters, tams, and shawls. We stock all shades from Jamieson & Smith (scroll down to read important news about jumperweight); the very wool used in both Alice Starmore's and Ann Feitelson's Fair Isle books. 130 yds—6 -10 sts to 1 inch, $5.40 per 25-gr ball |
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Shetland Lace-Weight * — For a Lace shawl slightly more delicate and dressy than Jumper-Weight Shetland. It has a wonderful drape and is a pleasure to knit with. Also good for very fine baby clothes. $8.50 per 25 gram ball, 185 yds—3 (lace) to 12 (sweaters) sts to 1 inch. |
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Cobweb Shetland—Also called Gossamer or Feather-Weight; the finest wool we stock. Natural Cream, Black, or Bleached White. For instant heirlooms like the ledendary Wedding Ring Shawl and nearly all the samples in Gladys Amedro's Shetland Lace and Sharon Miller's Heirloom Knitting. $12.50 per 25-gram ball, 380 yds—gauge is up to you. |
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Icelandic Laceweight — Knits up beautifully for shawls (only 2-4 skeins) and sweaters (at about 8 or 9 st to 1 in.). Not only 7 soft natural shades, but 12 dyed colors as well. (Used in Joyce Williams' Latvian Dreams, A Gathering of Lace and Wool Gathering #47, 55 and 56.) 50 gram (1 3/4-oz.) ball, 250 yards— gauge: anything you like. Note: The mill is known to add and drop colors; if you see a color you love stock up. $11.60 |
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Un-Spun Icelandic — Extraordinary long-fibered fleece unique to Icelandic sheep produce the warmest wool we know of. In a single-strand, this wool is wonderful for lace (the cover shawl on A Gathering of Lace takes only 4 wheels) or sweaters (WG#72). Quantity discount available: Order a full bundle of one color (a full bundle weighs approximately 4 pounds and yields approximately 18 wheels; cost is based on weight) and get 20% off. |
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Guernsey Wool — From the original Poppleton mill in the UK for authentic, traditional Gansey sweaters and socks. Very firmly spun 5-ply needs to be firmly knitted at 6 or 7 sts to 1 inch. Your great-grandchildren may inherit these long-wearing items. 3 1/2-oz ball, 245 yds —7 - 9 sts to 1 inch, $12.00 |
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Canadian Regal — This beautiful wool knits up at about 5 - 5 1/2 sts to 1 in.; an average adult sweater takes 5-6 skeins. 18 colors available. It is the wool used for "America's First Aran" in the Winter 1998 Vogue Knitting Magazine. 4-oz. skein, 272 yards—5 to 5-1/2 sts to 1 inch, $5.75 |
Important News about Shetland Wool
2007: The mill carrying our Shetland Jumperweight wool has been purchased and the new owner has listed 70 colors to be dropped. At present we have most shades still available and there is a glimmer of light. A U.S. distributor has picked up the baton and plans to have most of the discontinued colors dyed and shipped to America. There may be a lag, so we suggest grabbing your next Fair isle project-colors now. Also, we have no idea what price changes may be in store.
The EU now insists on uniform weights and measures throughout its member countries and our Shetland Woollen mills is trying valiantly to comply with the new rulings.
The result of the EU decree:
- Shetland Jumperweight wool is now put up in 25-gram balls of 130 yards
- Shetland Laceweight is in 25-gram balls of 185 yards
- Shetland Cobweb is now in 25-gram balls of 380 yards.
We worry that this may play havoc with certain patterns in our book, Sweaters From Camp, in which all 33 designs use the lovely Shetland Jumperweight wool, as well as all our past designs that use the above-listed wools. Please order ample amounts as we have no time-restriction on returns for credit, exchange or refund.
For the forseeable future our supply of Shetland Jumperweight, Laceweight, and Cobweb will be a mixture of skeins and balls; please bear with us.
On the PLUS side: all the balls now have belly-bands with color numbers and DYE-LOTS! Hooray.