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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
It’s the first day of the Try a New Yarn promotion from Handknitting.com. Today’s Buy One Get One Half off coupon is for 2 Lang Yarns:
Donegal 
Use the coupon code THANKS1
Merino Lace 400 Use the coupon code THANKS2 
This coupon will allow you to buy 2 skeins of these yarns, with the second skein at half price. You may mix colors, and you may use the coupon as many times as you wish.
GOOD TODAY (11/24/2011) ONLY.
New from Lopi:
Einband
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| A beautiful new design |
the lace weight Icelandic yarn that’s next-to-the-skin soft
This yarn is so beautiful, and it’s made for fabulous lace garments! We saw and felt this yarn at TNNA, and just had to have it so we could offer it to you. And in the tradition of other Lopi products, this yarn is a wonderful value for the lace knitter.
Click on the picture above for the Einband pattern book, and click here for the 46 fabulous colors!
Boy I’m late getting back here to the blog–sorry.
Some of you know Linda, our super special sample knitter, show helper, and adopted Jewish mother 
Linda took home a skein of Flamenco, and here’s her report.
First, it is easier to work with if, like ChaCha, you wind it around some cardboard. Or, another alternative is a wound ball, instead of the pull skein. The pull skein is slippery and can disintegrate into a big mess.
Linda's Flamenco Scarf
Here’s Linda’s favorite scarf pattern: 8 stitches across, but the stitches are every other hole apart. This results in a somewhat thinner but a longer scarf from one ball. Take a look
I think Linda really hit on something because this configuration is more susceptible to gravity. As a result the scarf gets thinner around your neck and flares at the ends. A very pretty result, don’t you think?
Go to the website to see all the colors.
I’ve been busy with my own family, but have a moment to wish all of you a happy New Year.
Those of you who have been customers for a while know that we run our Super-duper Over-the-top Cashmere and Luxury Yarn SALE between Christmas and New Year’s weekends.
This sale requires coupon codes. If you are not on our mailing list, or for some reason or another you did not get your email earlier today, please email me privately (laurel@handknitting.com ) and ask for it, and I will send you the sale announcement.
Cheers,
Laurel
In the middle of Christmas shopping, it occurred to us that we had left some important people off our list—our customers. So what would like if I were one of our customers? A sale on something that almost never goes on sale! And what would that be? Cashmere, of course!
We’ve put all the Cashmere on sale with coupon discounts. If you aren’t currently a subscriber to our customer mailing list, you’re not out of luck. Send your name and email address to laurel@handknitting.com, and we’ll sign you up, and send you a copy of the email containing the coupon codes.
This isn’t the usual time of year for new yarn introductions, but this is a pretty special yarn. We are thrilled to be able to offer Supreme Possum Merino yarn to the US market.
Supreme Possum Merino
There have been possum yarns on and off over the years, but this is a blend that is new, and simply sumptuous. We were able to get a reasonable supply to take with us to Stitches East, and it was very well received there.
Right now we have the fingering/sport weight in stock, in seven colors. The description of the weight is tricky, since the possum fur is so light that the yardage is very generous. The 50 g ball has about 234 yards. A better description is that it’s 13 wraps per inch (wpi). The interesting thing about this yarn is that it knits to such a wide variety of gauges, all while looking great. This yarn would make cozy socks on size 2-3 needles. The New Zealanders recommend using a size 3 needle for sweater fabric, but when I swatched it I really preferred a size 4 needle, and a size 5 wasn’t out of the question either. I would certainly consider it for a heavily textured pattern.
The colors are somewhat limited by the possum fur, as it cannot be bleached. The dye penetrates the wool, possum and silk differently, resulting in heathery hues with depth and interest. Right now there are seven colors: Black (not shown below), Denim Blue, Rose Pink, Navy, Mossy Green, Natural and Deep Red.
possum colors
We’ve sent samples to Knitty for their roundtable knit evaluation–I’ll let you know what we hear back. This yarn would make a great last minute hat gift, and just one skein will do it.
