Come with me on a little tour to two different yarn shops in the wonderful city of Barcelona in Catalonia. Also I give you an update on my knitting projects and we have several fun giveaways towards the end of the episode.

Finished Projects

Toph hat

Radioactive Socks

  • Pattern: Basic stockinette socks knit toe up, two at a time, magic loop – following the etcetera sock pattern by Verena Cohrs for the construction of the heel.
  • Yarn: dunkelgrün classic sock – speckle dyeing experiment. The neon green dye is “chartreuse” by Jacquard Acid Dyes.
  • Needles: started with Chiaogoo Lace 2.5 mm (1 ½ US) circular needle doing magic loop and two at a time, but now changed to knitting the socks separately on DPNs (KnitPro Naturals 2.5 mm / 1 ½ US).

Knitting in Progress

Improvised Colorwork Sweater

  • Pattern: Improvising a bottom up sweater
  • Yarn: Lana Rara Rare Swiss Wool – a Sport weight woolen yarn from endangered Swiss sheep breeds (2/3): Saaser Mutten, Spiegelschaf, Bündner Oberländerschaf, Engadinerschaf. Mixed with mulesing free merino wool (1/3).
  • Needles: 4.50 mm (US 7) Lykke Needles

Sushi Roll Socks

  • Pattern: Basic stockinette socks. Top down, 2×2 ribbed cuff, slip stitch heel flap, rounded heel turn and gusset.
  • Yarn: Sock blank “Sushi roll” from easyknits.co.uk (colorway: reversebow)
  • Needles: 2.5 mm (US 1 ½) Lykke circular needles (magic loop knitting)

Barcelona Yarn Shops & Purchases

Fil and Tropia

  • Lanasalpaca Welna Eco – 100% Peruvian highland wool, worsted weight. 50 grams / 87 meters / 95 yards. colors: #6011 (light beige), #6010 (darker beige – brown)

All You Knit is Love

  • All You Knit is Love Murmur – 25% cashmere, 75% merino, fingering weight. 100 grams / 400 meters. colorway: dirty martini.
  • Project bag (navy blue moons on natural background) handmade in Barcelona by Raquel Francia.

Fiber Science Segment: Wool Wash, Conditioners and Crocking

This episode I have decided to release my special “science” segments also as separate videos, so that the content can be found and linked easier. All the information is summarized in a separate blog post “Fiber Science: Wool Wash, Conditioners and Crocking“.

Giveaways

Miss FarFelue Yarns

Organic eco-superwash merino with nylon, handdyed in Canada.
Colorways: “evening dress” and “lush”.
Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/MissFarfelue

Knitting Patterns

Find the ravelry thread to participate here.

  • LB Handknits – Sunny Every Day (cardigan with cable yoke)
  • Handmade Riot – Slava (slavic colorwork mittens)
    coupon code for 10% off: DUNKELGRUN10
  • Maja Danailov – Veneda mittens (cabled fingerless mitts)

Barcelona Giveaway

This giveaway is happening on instagram. Scroll down my feed to find the picture of the yarn and project bag to participate.

  • Yarn All You Knit is Love Murmur – 25% cashmere, 75% merino, fingering weight. 100 grams / 400 meters. colorway: dirty martini. Handdyed in Barcelona.
  • Project bag (cats with parachutes) handmade in Barcelona by Raquel Francia.

Tintica Yarn

These two lovely skeins of handdyed yarn will be prizes for the #selfdyedKAL. A winner will be chosen on the 1st of July from the chatter thread of this knitalong.

Spanish merino wool with a “reduced” superwash treatment.
Plant dyed: Mild pomegranate (ocre yellow) and Thyna (coral).
www.tintica.com