To my Sunshine in the Morning

An Etsy treasury for a winter morning.

Grand Unified Yarn Theory. Or, 'What is this yarn?'

In the table below I've tried to sensibly and as completely as possible list the information I find I need when faced with a ball of yarn or a knitting pattern calling for yarn. For eack yarn weight, there are ranges for YPP, WPI, Nm, and the Ply/Count measurement system, as well as knitting gauges and needle sizes.

I found an array of different definite standards while I was setting this up. I ended up not following any of them exactly, but aimed for a middle-of-the-road usefulness.

 

Yarn Weight Name		m/100g	YPP (Yard per pound)	Nm (m/g)	Ply/Count, Woolen Measure	WPI - Wraps per inch	Gauge – Stockinette Stitches per		Knitting Needle Size
Yarnstandards.com	UK, NZ, AU						1”	4”	US	Metric	UK
Hamster Floss		1800	9000	18	1/60 - 1/56	60	20	80?
0 : Lace
Cobweb		1200	6000	12	2/48 - 1/28	50	13	52
0 : Lace	1 ply
Lace		560 - 1200	2800 - 6000	5.6 - 12	2/28 - 2/24	30 - 45	9 - 13	36 - 52	000 - 1	1.5 - 2.5	17 - 13
0 : Lace	2 ply
Baby		420 - 580	2100 - 2900	4.2 - 5.8	3/28 - 2/20	21 - 29	7.5 - 9	30 - 36	1 - 2	2.25 - 3	13 - 11
0 : Lace	3 ply
Fingering, Sock		320 - 460	1600 - 2300	3.2 - 4.6	2/16 - 4/28	19 - 22	6.5 - 7.5	26 - 30	1 - 3	2.25 - 3.25	13 - 10
1 : Super Fine	4 ply
Sport		260 - 340	1300 - 1700	2.6 - 3.4	2/12 - 5/28	15 - 18	5.75 - 6.5	23 - 16	3 - 5	3.25 - 3.75	10 - 9
2 : Fine	5 ply
DK		200 - 280	1000 - 1400	2 - 2.8	2/10 - 6/28	12 - 14	5.25 - 5.75	21 - 23	5 - 7	3.75 - 4.5	9 - 7
3 : Light	8 ply
Worsted		180 - 220	900 - 1100	2.8 - 2.2	3/12 - 8/28	9 - 11	4.75 - 5.25	19 - 21	7 - 9	4.5 - 5.5	7 - 5
4 : Medium	10 ply
Aran		160 - 200	800 - 1000	2.6 - 2	9/28 - 3/10	8 - 10	4 - 4.75	19 - 21	8 - 10	5 - 6	6 - 4
4 : Medium	12 ply
Bulky, Chunky		80 - 160	400 - 800	0.8 - 1.6	10/28 - 3/8	7 - 8	3 - 4	12 - 16	9 - 11	5.5 - 8	5 - 0
5 : Bulky
Super Bulky		80	400	0.8	4/6	6	2.75	11	13+	89	00
6 : Super Bulky

Beautiful Things

Since I posted last, I have gotten my Electric Carnation etsy shop up and running!

This morning I'm adding some truly Beautiful Things - jewelry made by my mum :)

Yarn happened

I'm branching out from rovings and batts, and will also be dyeing millspun yarns.  In the next couple of weeks there will be a number of OOAK skeins as I play with different yarn bases.

My son helped 'model' the yarns.

Here is one called 'Aqua' -  100g of superwash Merino and nylon sock yarn. (It sells for R115 in SA, and $18.50 to other countries) 
Aqua has sold.  Contact me, and I'll do you a similar skein or two :) 

I also did a skein like this in dk weight, but my eldest claimed it :)

I call this base yarn 'Selkie' - it's a silk/seacell mix fingering yarn.  The kids and I decided to call this 100g kein 'Petunia'.

This is a lovely luxury yarn, and is available as two 50g balls for R140 ($22) each.  If you want both balls, there's a discount, and 100g costs R240 ($38).

I have been getting amazing mileage out of my indigo vat.  I love the richness of the blues I get from it.  I found that the dress I dyed in it is fading gently, just like my favourite jeans did.

This skein is is called 'Soft Jeans', and is 220g of Merino superwash fingering yarn. It's huge, and selling for R230 ($36.50).

This is me happening to a ball of Vinni's Bambi  - 50g of Organic cotton and bamboo.  This ball is called 'My Favorite Jeans', and similar ones will sell for R60 ($10). A Friend is test-knitting this one for me!

As always I'll combine shipping, and charge you the actual shipping cost :)  Shipping to the US costs $10.50 for the first skein, and possible additional $5 for more than one.  Any postage overcharges will be refunded after I mail your parcel.

I'm easily found as emtempest on Ravelry, and at the same name on gmail.

It's a cake....

... with horses on.  Happy Birthday, my Junior Wrangler!

Fluffy Little Friends

Here is another etsy treasury, done in honour of my fluffy little friends.  For more than two years Mr Fluffy (You can see him in my Etsy avatar) was my fluffy friend. He passed away earlier this year. Well, late last month my 10-year-old daughter bought me Mme Curie, my new fluffy friend.  She is currently my Ravelry avatar, visible at - http://www.ravelry.com/people/Emtempest .

Tree-Frog Treasury

The kids and I have been watching quite a few documentaries about the amazon rain forest lately.  Now little tree frogs keep catching my eye. :)

Here's an Etsy Treasury about the little creatures.