New Yarn!

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Just for funsies, here is some new sock yarn I bought on Etsy last month.  Love, love, love these skeins and I think I did a good job with these photos too, right? ? Unfortunately I snagged the last of both of these colors but I’m putting links to the shops below in case they do another batch, or you can go and find something equally fantastic!

First up is this amazing sparkly yarn from Five Borough Yarns in NYC.  The color is called Mermaid Lagoon and it’s on the Sparkle Sock base.  I had a great experience with this dyer – she shipped the yarn lightning fast and it came with a lovely handwritten note card thanking me for my purchase, which was such a nice touch.

One thing to note is that the skein is only 400 yards, which is still plenty to knit a pair of socks in most sizes, but most 100g skeins of sock yarn in my collection tend have a bit higher yardage, so just pay attention to that note if you plan to knit up a project that might require a lot of yarn.  (My best guess is that the sparkle fibers weigh more?)

Next is this beauty from Stardust Fibers in Maryland.  The color is called Jewel Parade and it’s just gorgeous.  The package also shipped very quickly and came with a cute bonus gift of a couple of fun snag-free stitch markers.

These are both new-to-me dyers that I discovered during a little Juneteenth shopping spree. I found them by searching for Black-owned yarn shops on Etsy.  (Searching for that tag isn’t an exact science – the Etsy algorithm can be a little finicky, but hopefully I got it right? I mean, either way, the yarn is gorgeous, so it’s a win.)

If you want to know more about Juneteeth, you can google it for a ton of info (here is a link to the entry on Wikipedia if you are feeling lazy, lol). If you want to know more about why it is important to intentionally seek out and support Black dyers, check out these articles: Black Yarn Dyers and the Case for Purposeful Support and Black People Do Knit.  (Or you can go down the rabbit hole of the #Diversknitty hashtag on Instagram to get info and see pretty pictures!)