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Yesterday I had the 'opportunity'? of weighing the broken bags at CEY for their annual inventory. And while doing so, it was VERY hard not to fall in love with so much of the yarn. I pulled asside 10 hanks of Renaissance—9 teal and 1 brown; 10 hanks of teal Inca Alpaca, zillions of balls of Princess in all sorts of colors, some Montera Heather hanks, and some Classic Silk. I had a printed list of what I'm planning on knitting for Christmas gifts with me and made sure that I only choose yarn for projects I had in mind. Of course, many more projects CAME to mind while doing that… I tried to resist many of those, for the sake of my walet.
The 10 hanks of inca had me stumped. I absolutely LOVE the color, but couldn't for the life of me, figure out what to make with 10 hanks of it. It's a color I thought James might like, so I began searching around for men's patterns, to see approximately how much yardage was needed for a sweater, and 10 hanks was not enough. I decided to return the yarn to its home in the CEY *toybox* as we call it.
I did however find this great sweater design by Elizabeth Zimmerman, adapted to an adult size by Jared Flood. I sent the link to James and he likes it. So, now I'm searching for the right yarn. He likes the color of Jared's original, but I'm concerned about the scratchiness of the Beaverslide tweed Jared used. James is pretty sensitve to itchy wool, so I'd rather not use an itcy tweed for his sweater.
I looked around Hub Mills Store for an alternate tweed in a similar weight, and came across a new yarn by Tahki—Sedona. It's a nice yarn that reminds me a little of CEY's Waterlily, in that it has a stretchy, elastic-like bounce to it. It is much more of a tweed however. Tonia, the store's manager said Sedona's a new yarn, so I'm a little disapointed with the limited color selection. I brought home 1 hank of each the dark grey, which has a blueish tint and the light grey (neither of which is shown in that link I provided above). I've photoshopped one of Jared's images above to represent these colors.
I'm also considering CEY's Portland Tweed yarn, which I think is a dream to knit with, but I'm keeping in second place because it's not as much of what I'm visualizing as Sedona. It does have a much better color selection though. The reds shown above are a photoshopped representation of 5038 Major Brown and 5058 Ruby Red.
Does anyone have any other non-itchy tweed yarns, with a bunch of colors to choose from?
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