Although I have been on a yarn fast since January 1, 2013, that doesn't mean I have not slipped once or twice. Or more. There was that red Gedifra merino cotton for a sweater, still half done. A couple skeins from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. A few skeins of superwash Wool of the Andes for fingerless gloves.
And this gorgeous stuff, which I just discovered that I had never added to my Ravelry stash.
That's 650 yards of laceweight mink yarn, folks. Sheer luxury.
Earlier this year I had a brainstorm about a scarf I needed to make, and I ordered this Blue Moon Fiber Arts silk laceweight.
Now that I have the yarn, I may make something entirely different with it.
Or I may make the planned scarf and use the other 1,000 yards
for the something different.
I found myself wanting to play with yarn -- instead of doing what I should be doing, which is knitting fingerless gloves -- so I started straightening my craft area. It was a complete and total mess, with yarn that had been piled on the table for a couple years. I sorted and caked and sorted and stowed.
Along the way I wound this yarn, purchased June 2012 and never stowed, into a cake.
Fingerlakes Soft Wool 2-ply in an unnamed, or possibly undyed, colorway.
Then I wound the Silk Thread II into a cake...
...and was struck by the size difference of the cakes.
That's 1,255 yards of fine laceweight silk sitting on 255 yards of worsted weight wool. Or, to put it another way, three months of knitting atop a couple evenings.
