Thank you for all of the words of support and understanding yesterday. I thought I’d probably feel a little less disappointed today after it had sunk in and hopefully after hearing back from the publishers, but whilst I still await a reply to the email I sent yesterday I am more stuck in limbo. I thought I would have a look through some of my purchases from the weekend to try and cheer myself up.
I bought this yarn in a grab bag for £4, unlabelled with any details of fibre content or brand, but I know that I have seen it somewhere before, in either a yarn or department store. It’s balled in 50g skeins and appears to be a heavyish aran weight. I asked the folks on the British Knitters board on Ravelry if anyone recognised my mystery purchase and had a few likely suggestions, the most accurate of which I think might be Lana Grossa Luxor Aran. Amusingly, I was leafing through a magazine yesterday and noticed another likely candidate: Rico Fashion Mètalisè, which has the same fibre content, appearance, skein size and meterage as the Lana Grossa yarn, perhaps from the same mill, rebranded at some point.
I am not yet sure what I shall do with this yarn. Considering it is a grab bag that works out to 40p a ball (under that, in fact, as there were other balls of yarn included) the colours do not look too bad together. I might make myself a winter tank top, but whatever I knit I foresee plenty of stripes.
Love the yarn, can’t wait to see what you knit from it.
Your mystery yarn looks a lot like Lace Luxe, but if it’s Aran maybe it is the other weight.
Yarn always cheers me up, too. When I’m particularly sad, I like to dig through the stash for the Malabrigo and the Zauberballs and have a cuddle with them all piled on me.
I just read your post from yesterday and I am keeping my fingers crossed they will get in touch with you and everything will be allright. Yarn fixes everything 🙂 the colours are amazing, very cool wintery. Love it!
Yay for yarn! Lucky score that the colors go well together. Looking forward to seeing what you create! (sjn821)
It looks rather like some Sublime Lustrous Extra Fine Merino DK I have (and have no idea what to do with!). I can’t wait to see what you do with all that pretty, shiny yarn!
So sorry to read about your sock pattern. :/ I hope they go out of their way to make it up to you.