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Published April 16, 2024 | By Julia
We’re pleased to welcome another yarn from Sandnes Garn in Norway: meet Tynn Line!
Sandnes Garn Tynn Line:
Like Sandnes Garn Line, Tynn Line is composed of a unique blend of plant fibers, making it perfect for a variety of knit and crochet projects. It’s cool and breathable for warm weather garments, comfortable and absorbent for homeware items – all in all, a lovely addition to our fingering weight section.
What to make with Tynn Line? Here are some pattern ideas!
Garments:
- “Skyline Tee,” by Tori You – saddle shoulder tee with ribbed sleeves
- “Moon Set Tee,” by Ozetta – drop shoulder v-neck tee
- “Cumulus Tee,” by PetiteKnit – top-down, rounded v-neck, stockinette tee
- “Anker Tee,” by PetiteKnit – top-down, ribbed yoke tee
- “Shore Tee,” by Anne Ventzel – top-down eyelet tee, knit holding lace and fingering weight yarns together
- “Outline Tee,” by Jessie Maed – cropped tee with drop-stitch detail
- “Outline Tank,” by Jessie Maed – cropped tank with drop-stitch detail
- “Camisole No. 4,” by My Favorite Things – broken rib tank
Homewares:
Look for Sandnes Garn Tynn Line in the fingering weight section here at HYS, and check out other Sandnes Garn yarns while you’re here – find Tynn Silk Mohair in the lace weight section, Sunday in the fingering weight section, Double Sunday in the DK weight section, and Line in the worsted weight section.
Published August 11, 2023 | By Julia
The folks at Pom Pom Quarterly have put together a special edition especially for crocheters – let’s look inside their Crochet Anthology! For a decade now, Pom Pom Quarterly has been sprinkling crochet patterns into their magazines, one or two in each issue. This special edition collects some of the best loved crochet patterns from … [more]
Published August 8, 2023 | By Julia
We’re delighted to have a fresh supply of Malabrigo Ultimate Sock and Mohair, just in time for Malabrigo’s upcoming KAL! Lora Marin designed this stunning lace shawl for Malabrigo Ultimate Sock and Mohair, using the yarns separately to highlight the difference in texture. For this shawl, she used these yarns in the same colorway, Aniversario, … [more]
Published August 4, 2023 | By Julia
The Koigu Collector’s Club continues! Each month, we’ll receive 21 skeins of KPPPM in a limited edition color dyed especially for a select group of local yarn stores that carry Koigu. KPPPM is a fingering weight superwash merino, hand-dyed in vibrant colors by mother/daughter team Maie and Taiu Landra on their farm outside of Toronto, Canada. … [more]
Published August 1, 2023 | By Julia
Brand new from Malabrigo, meet Mohair! Malabrigo Mohair: lace weight hand-dyed, variegated 72% mohair, 28% silk 229 yards/25g $15 each Malabrigo is a beloved Uruguayan yarn company known for vibrant hand-dyed color and soft, squishy merino wool. In Mohair, they’ve brought their signature colors to new fibers, an elegant blend of fuzzy mohair and shimmering … [more]
Published July 28, 2023 | By Julia
Need some inspiration for your next project? Here’s another round of show and tell, featuring projects that make interesting use of color and texture. Carribeth designed and knit this shawl using Dream in Color Smooshy Cashmere in one of their special applied pooling shades – she did stockinette stitch wherever the yarn was peach, pink, … [more]
Published July 25, 2023 | By Julia
Over the past month or so, we’ve replenished our supply of Isager Alpaca 2 twice, bringing some bestselling colors back into stock – there always seems to be a steady demand for this fuzzy blend of merino and alpaca, beloved for its soft hand and harmonious color palette! Isager Alpaca 2: light fingering weight 50% … [more]
Published July 21, 2023 | By Julia
It’s been too long since I shared show-and-tell here on the blog, though it’s an ongoing part of our daily Instagram posts – let’s see what folks have been making with yarn from our shop! We have long extolled the magic of holding multiple yarns together, making unique color and fiber blends that delight and … [more]
Published July 18, 2023 | By Julia
We’re pleased to announce that Brooklyn Tweed Quarry is back in production with a brand new neutral color palette! Quarry is Brooklyn Tweed’s thickest yarn, a bulky weight, woolen-spun Targhee-Columbia wool with an unexpected combination of texture and structure. It looks like a single ply, but is actually constructed with three loosely-spun plies for a … [more]
Published July 14, 2023 | By Julia
Dream in Color’s Pop-Up Club is back! Every month, we’re getting a special new colorway from Dream in Color, a Tucson-based producer of small batch hand-dyed yarns. There’s a special theme this time: assigned pooling, a clever way of showing off hand-dyed yarns like these. June’s new limited edition colorway is here, better late than … [more]
Published July 11, 2023 | By Julia
The Koigu Collector’s Club continues! Each month, we’ll receive 21 skeins of KPPPM in a limited edition color dyed especially for a select group of local yarn stores that carry Koigu. Koigu KPPPM: fingering weight hand dyed, variegated 100% superwash merino wool 175 yards/50 g $15.50 each This month’s special colorway is Hoof Mushroom, a vibrant … [more]