Hi! I haven't been able to find the yarn actually :(, my local fabric store is really small... so I think I'll have to buy them online or something. :) Thank you for the advise!!
Hey there again--I looked about and found my favorite yarn store--it's called Angelika's and it's in Oregon, and they have the best stock around, or usually do. You very well might be able to find everything you want there.
Forget this link. The store has gone downhill big time. Sorry. However...
A while back I bought a lot of yarn, telling myself I was going to knit season 12 4 scarves for all my friends. HAHAHAHAHA. Well, I did for two. Three, if you count the rainbow version one. But what I'm getting at is I have MANY of all the Cascade 220 colors, and would be happy to let you have a set (enough for a scarf) for next to nothing. Actually, nothing. We could work out something on postage. Really, it's going to sit there for quite a while. And it's been in an x-large ziploc bag so no way have moths been at it. You use a size 6 US needle for this yarn, some people use a 7--I like the way it knits up on the 6--tight, but not stiff. Anyway, the offer stands. Message me if you are interested.
:) aww thank you for that!! Actually, I'm really happy right now because I've just convinced my mom to take me on an early xmas shopping trip to San Diego or LA, I might not go to LA (my mom doesn't like to go that far she says)... but I bet San Diego has bigger fabric stores than my little city in the middle of nowhere!! :D and because I'm going with my mom she might help me pay for it lol :D but thank you so much!! I'll keep that in mind and I'll let you know if I can't find them :)
I did my first scarf in Brown Sheep Nature Spun, though Cascade 220 seems to be the most popular. I've had pretty good luck ordering from Jimmy Bean's Wool myself, but it looks like it's available from several places listed on Ravelry's site (http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/cascade-yarns-220-wool) if it helps.
Wool is just so much more forgiving, don't you think? And if you have to tink (take out rows) it doesn't stick together like acrylic does, and if you're anything like me--at least when I did my first scarf--I tinked A LOT.
Definitely! I don't know how many times I tinked the first few tries. My first complete scarf didn't go through quite as much tinking, but it seemed to come out a lot more evenly with a lot less stress. I've found the merino my favorite to knit so far, but I don't know how well it wears.
I learned to knit only about a year and a half ago--and I wanted my first project to be the 4 scarf. I called a local store and they had a beginner's class starting 2 days later. So I took the class, then went home, ordered the yarn, tried to practice garter stitch. Then the yarn finally came, and I started up, made it about two rows
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A while back I bought a lot of yarn, telling myself I was going to knit season 12 4 scarves for all my friends. HAHAHAHAHA. Well, I did for two. Three, if you count the rainbow version one. But what I'm getting at is I have MANY of all the Cascade 220 colors, and would be happy to let you have a set (enough for a scarf) for next to nothing. Actually, nothing. We could work out something on postage. Really, it's going to sit there for quite a while. And it's been in an x-large ziploc bag so no way have moths been at it. You use a size 6 US needle for this yarn, some people use a 7--I like the way it knits up on the 6--tight, but not stiff. Anyway, the offer stands. Message me if you are interested.
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