malabrigo madness
I just received a package that I have been waiting for for months. 10 skeins of Malabrigo Worsted Weight Merino yarn. 216 yards each. That's, like, over 2 kilometres of yarn. 1.2 miles, my friends. Of the softest merino wool you have ever felt. I ordered it through a co-op order that a friend of mine was going in on (where the yarn is ordered directly from the company in Uruguay, for a discounted price). I just happened to have made the order when the Canadian dollar was at $1.10 US, so I ended up paying around $6 per skein, when if I was buying it retail, it would have been twice that. I'm not a stasher, so I am now obsessed with deciding exactly which projects this wool will go into. From the example projects I've seen on Ravelry, this yarn is best for mitts, scarves and sweaters, but it does felt and pill a lot, so we're not looking at knitting anything that needs to show a lot of detail in the design, or that I don't mind, well, being pill-y and felted. I also ordered all of it in its natural, undyed state, so that I would have an excuse to take a yarn dyeing class at Lettuce Knit. Between the project decisions, dyeing, and getting through all this yarn, I'm set for, like, six months. I just hope I don't get bored of it.
This is what a couple kilometres of merino wool looks like:
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