I splurged agian. Call this one peer pressure. I bought some beautiful squishy soft Yak Down yarn from Pure Knits.
This is from a company called Shokay. Go there and read about them, it’s a very cool thing they’re doing. I saw his yarn awhile ago while blog surfing, and then recently, Cari wrote about them using her Yoda Sweater pattern with the yarn, and then Megan posted it in a beautiful grey color, and well, I was sold.
It comes in so many great colors the hardest part was choosing which one would come live with me. I chose cranberry. At the end it was between that and the grey, dusty wind color. I totally considered the green, but I always go for the green. I wanted to change it up this time. I think I would have gone for the earthy brown color, but they were out. So Cranberry it was!
This was also the first time I ordered from Pure Knits. I go over there and drool over the beautiful luxury yarns, yarn snob that I am, but hadn’t ordered until the other day. I already knew that Yahaira is fabulous, so there were no doubts what so ever that the yarn I ordered from her would be anything less. The shipping was superfast too.
Now the only questionis, what to make with this lucsious stuff? I was thinking maybe a scarf in a mistake rib pattern. Whatever it will be, it’ll be good.
Oh, yum!
Ooooooooooh. Yummmmy. 🙂
Oh… I can’t wait to see what you make with yours! I have two skeins too, and am still trying to decide about mine. I have a few ideas, but I haven’t committed to anything yet. I’m happy just petting and coveting mine for now… 🙂
*drool*
oooh – even looks super soft and cuddly in the picture!
Ok – when I read the title all I could think of was an exclamation – “Yak Down!!!” (like Black Hawk Down!) Anyway…I think a simple scarf would be perfect in that luscious stuff.
oooh, soft and squishy 🙂
I got inspired by your whisky sweater and got the pattern. but I need a help on sizing:( The smallest finished bust measures 38″ which is way too big for me. I like my knits to be more fitted and I like it to be more like 33″. How do I go about it? I am a math challenged and have no clue how to recaculate the whole thing.
yummy! Great color. a mistake rib scarf sounds perfect
That yarn is beautiful! You’ve inspired me to look into spinning. Any tips, stories, etc?
Ooooh! Great color.
unspeakable yarn lust.
Love that color. I would have gone for green too, but that color is just heavenly. Knit something wonderful with it!