This summer, during July and August, I visited three farms and yarn stores and bought yarn according to my yarn no-buy year guidelines (I allow myself to buy yarn in stores, given there are none next to me).
Now that I have all this beautiful stash, what are my plans or fantasies ?
Mohair Cardé From Mohair d’Aulon en Pyrénées
First, with the blue mohair cardé from Mohair d’Aulon en Pyrénées I will knit a Perennial sweater by Norah Gaughan from La Bien Aimée Worsted yellow book. I love the yarn, its stitch definition and I really want to knit a pattern from Norah Gaughan after I ripped my last project out. I do not want to linger on such a “failure” or bad experiment, mostly because the cotton yarn did not go with the pattern and the charts were very small to read, even after taking a pic and printing it out as large as I could.
This time, I will follow one recommendation some one gave me in a comment on my YouTube channel : print it from a real Xerox big copier that can keep a good resolution even when copying on a large scale !
Second, the rest of the colours was to knit a Hide and Peak by Maxim Cyr that I’ve had in my queue for a long time. I wanted to knit the body in a dark grey colour, but they were out of stock (good for them !), so I bought the light brown one instead. I the mean time, Isabella Clark released the Fields Of Gold and the light browny beige Mohair cardé got an immediate reassign ! Fields of Gold it will be. The light blush pink, light grey and yellow will wait for another visit to the farm and the dark grey hopefully.
Fuzzy Mohair From La Ferme De L’Accroche Cœur
This was a new farm to me, that I had been following on Instagram since the beginning of the year. When I visited, I first contacted her and turns out she had just opened her brick and mortar shop in her farm the day before ! She will keep selling open markets. When I visited, I already had a project style in mind : knitting a Bohus type colour work sweater. I need to find a design that will fit my yarn and gauge now 😺
Wooly Wool From Laines À L’Ouest
After I spent some time in the Pyrénées and Poitou, I went back home for my last weekend before work. I decided to drive to Lessay in Cotentin, a 1.5h trip, and go to the Laines à l’Ouest shop. I could not see the sheep as they were in a barn due to the higher tides that flood their usual pasture. It is common here in Normandie.
A beautiful shop, a very friendly host and marvelous rustic yarns. I may have found my substitute to the one from Iceland I have been drooling over for quite some time.
I bought these two 1kg cones in the undyed white yellowish kind and the grey brownish one.
When I saw the grey one, I immediately assigned it to the Highland Thistle Sweater by Carolyn Holbrook. The right colour, the right yarn weight. I do not have a real plan for the whitish one other than a Mare by Natasja Hornby in combination with the grey one. I think I’ll use the very as the background couleur and the white as the accent one, as shown in a sample.
In both places I also got yarn for Rosemary Grant and shipped it to Australia (not talking about clearing customs for her..). She received it and likes it 😻 She also shipped some Australian yarn to me, so I guess this will be a swap, win-win 💙
Companion YouTube Video : https://youtu.be/ib4wJ6BHB6M
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