COZY CARDIGANS: Episode 22 - An FO and a BIIIIG Yarn Haul!

okay i'm ready hi everyone hope this angle's okay let me move you guys a little more okay hi hello sorry hi hello everyone um welcome to the cozy cardigans podcast my name is melanie um you can call me mel uh and you can find me on instagram ravelry as cozy cardigans and also i'm the owner and dyer for big little yarnco which is a hand-eyed yarn shop and you can find that on instagram um and also have a website it's called big little yarn coat and i live in hyogo in japan um recently moved here not recently kind of recently moved here in january with my husband tim and yeah i'm back um i decided that i want to try to post at least once a month just because before that two-month stretch was a bit much like um my podcast episodes always end up going over an hour so um i was thinking maybe i should try to you know post more frequently so you guys aren't stuck watching me for an hour but so so i'm doing that now but i think this episode's gonna be pretty chunky too i knew it a lot so um so i got a lot of stuff to share with you first off um i'm doing something a little new this first bit is gonna be about my next shop update which is going to be on august 8th at 10 a.m japan standard time which is the equivalent of august 7th um at 9 00 pm eastern standard time or 6 p.m pacific standard time on august 7th so if you're in the us or if you live in europe or somewhere else just do a little google so it'll be august 8th 10 a.m japan standard time so anyway so this first bit's gonna be me showing you what's gonna be in there so if you're not interested in any of this you can skip forward but i do have some pretty yarn to show you so i mean maybe you'll stick around um so this update i usually choose a little theme when i create my colorways just because it helps things like be a little more cohesive gives me an idea of what to um an idea of like a central idea so that when i create colorways i kind of hone in on that idea if that makes sense so to me that makes makes me feel free but also at the same time it gives me this kind of like idea of what i'm trying to look for within this collection so this collection i am or i decided to do the matsuri collection that's the theme so matsuri is a festival but um in japan during the summer there's a lot of natsumatsuri which is um summer festivals that happen usually this year they obviously all got cancelled sorry they obviously all got cancelled because of kovid so unfortunately we weren't able to go to any of those and usually it's like a festival where there's a bunch of food stalls and a bunch of little games and little um souvenirs you can buy the food is really good um there's usually a firework show you can wear a yukata which is like a summer kimono type of thing um and it's just like a fun thing to do in the summer but yeah unfortunately got cancelled so since it got cancelled i still wanted to kind of celebrate that summeriness um or that summer aspect of being in japan is just like uh it's just quintessentially japanese i don't know um so i wanted to celebrate that so this collection for this update is the matsuri collection so i added three new colorways or three new variegated colorways two new tonals and then i also added some oldies in there to kind of round off the whole collection so let me start off with the variegated colorways so this is an old colorway but this is matsuri so i made this quite a long while ago this is one of the first colorways that i created and i wanted to include like the idea of a nighttime festival there's a lot of red lantern kind of stuff going on it's very bright during a summer night kind of feeling like it's a hot summer evening so this is matsuri so that will be in the update obviously and then the three new colorways so the first one is this this is kingyosukui [Music] kingyo means um goldfish in japanese and scooby means scooping or like yeah scooping um so it's a game when you go to um a japanese matsumatsuri that's a very fun game that kids and adults play um i don't think there's an equivalent of it like anywhere else i don't i can't think of any um but what you pretty much do is there's a little pool of little goldfish and you get this poi and it's maybe put a picture of it but it's uh like a round scooper and the scoopy part it's not made out of a net it's made out of thin like almost like tissue paper type of material and you have to use that to scoop up the goldfish so when it gets wet and when you kind of when the goldfish moves on it it's really easy to break and once it breaks that's when you lose the game so you're trying to scoop as much goldfish into your little bowl as possible before your poi breaks and it's actually really hard like it sounds really hard and it is really hard but i'm actually pretty good at it like um i was um when i announced it on my instagram i was saying that it was like my weird flex like i could scoop a lot of goldfish when i play that game so it's one of my favorite things to do at a matsuri so it's based off of the like goldfish orange in like a sea of blue just like a goldfish scooping game and then there's some black speckles because there's some goldfish with black specks in it and then i just really love that i think this would knit up i really want to steal this to make like a cardigan out of i think that'd be really pretty um but yeah so this is the first first colorway the second colorway is this this is paper lantern and um it's just this mostly orange and yellow with like a little splash of very dark black blue and the reason why i made this is because um paper lanterns are just a very key part of festival decor i guess or like it's just always um it's a very significant part of lighting up the festival grounds you know and um another thing is that there is a festival or a holiday called obong here in japan and that is actually i believe next week but um usually people take time off a couple days from work for it and it's pretty much like a if you heard of dia de los muertos for mexico mexican culture um you it's kind of like that but japanese so you go to your ancestral graves you clean it up you set up food for um your ancestors so because it's a time when their spirits come back to greet you so um also in japan a lot of people have um little shrines within their house set up for their dead relatives so they clean up the shrine and then another important thing is that you put up paper lanterns so that when the spirits do come back they'll be able to find their home so paper lanterns are a really big part of the obong um time and there is also no bone festival um where it's like a summer festival but like really big so it's a very important part of japanese summertime festival culture so paper lanterns this would have really nice like strips like um stripes strips stripes of um this black going into the orange when you knit it up that would be really cute as socks i think and then the last um variegated colorway the new new very good colorway is this fun really fun speckled skein and this is called hanabi and hanabi is fireworks in japanese so as you can see why i named it that it's just um inspired by fireworks and fireworks there's hanabi thai guys which is a fireworks show and so like um during a festival there's usually multiple hanabi taikai's that happen um over rivers and stuff like that those are really pretty if you are near a river and there's a firework show above it you could kind of see like it in the sky and then also reflected on this water so those are really fun so i'm really sad that we couldn't see any of this here but it's uh it's almost just as good i think for yarn so yeah this is hanabi so these are all the variegated schemes that will be let me see if i can hold it that will be available in the shop update so yeah and then also i made two new tonals um to go along with it so the new tonals this is natsuzura it's blowing out a tiny bit well here it is if i hold it up here it's a bit more color accurate so this is like a very true sky blue i want to say like this i've made these two tonals based off of what i see when i hang up yarn and i take down yarn i do that on my um veranda out in front of my bedroom um i'm pointing like you know where it is but it's in the room right across from this one but um this is natsuzora natsuzora means summer sky natsu is summer sora is sky so natsuzora is summer sky so this is kind of like a clear summer day sky color i pretty much just stared at my window and tried to match the color to my die pot that's how i made this so this is like a really pretty just true sky blue yeah it's like a it's a very uh not a basic i want to say but like a very like you got to have one of these in your my in your die rotation i feel like it's just a all-around good blue color and then on the other hand i have this color and this is summer dusk and it's this not hot pink and not as let me see if i have like a sakura so i do have sakura which is i have a mini skein here this is sakura and it's a very light pink and as you can see it's if this one's more darker a little darker a lot more pinker and a bit more brighter than sakura and this one is this one's inspired by the i don't know during the summer time for some reason the dusk and sunset um it just gets more pinker than the winter times i feel like and this is it gets really pink sometimes here when the sun goes down very pink and purple it's really pretty um so this is the pinkish part of that dusky time during the summer so yeah this is just like a good not hot pink but pretty pink kind of tonal i want to say so yeah there's this so there's these two and then i'm also bringing back two older colors which is tamago and rust because i chose those because i feel like these four together just look so cute it's just a good combo i don't know it gets kind of blown out when i bring it forward but you mean it's a good quach quartet no i don't know what i'm saying but it's a good four color combo i feel like so i just put those two together it's part of the set so yeah so these four or these four tonals and then those eight uh these four tonals and those four variegated skeins are all coming into the shop as pre-orders on august 8th 10 a.m japan standard time so if you are interested feel free to take a look um as you can see i kind of bring back certain older colorways depending on whether or not they fit the theme so if you don't want to miss out i recommend you check it out but it might come back depending on what the theme will be next time so yeah so those are the new colors but i also have a few other things to show you that'll also be available on the update so the first one is this skein i think you might have seen it if you follow meena over on knitting expat she also has a um youtube podcast and this is the skein or the colorway um autumn in tokyo that she or i made for her for her i made for her for her i made for her for her tokyo socks pattern so she has a um a sock pattern collection that's been rolling out for a while now called the around the world in eight socks collection and so she asked me to create the colorway for the tokyo pattern so this is it autumn in tokyo and she was wondering when she contacted me if i can make something kind of inspired by tori gates shinto tori gates and those toy gates i feel like you've seen it if you've seen a shinto shrine in japan but there are those red you could put a picture a red kind of gate it's not really a gate that you open it's a gate that kind of goes over the pathway um and that's kind of just um the border between the holy ground and then the regular ground i guess you could say um within a shinto temple so those are like this typical they're usually this bright orangey red color and they look super pretty during the autumn because there's like the changing leaves and then there's the red um gate and it's just really pretty so i was thinking about that so i made this colorway so yeah this is called autumn in tokyo and it's just this really um it's not as neon i'm not sure if it looks too really neon on your screen but it's not super neon but it is super deep and not bright but i guess deep is the correct term for it but it's very um it's a very variegated tonal it's not a tonal it's not super variegated either because i'll put a picture of mina's pattern up here but her pattern includes a lot of lacy kind of cabley work and so we wanted to create a colorway that wouldn't be too busy so that that cable work can be the star of the show for that pattern so yeah this is the autumn in tokyo colorway this will also be available as pre-order um during the shop update but yeah super happy with it and the pattern looks great with this colorway so if you don't know meena she's super nice she has a great podcast so check it out um and yeah i have that and then also one more thing is i just posted about it today but i have i don't have the physical schemes with you because i sent it over to emily but i am doing stripy turtle tank sets for pre-order during this next shop update i'll put a picture of the tanks up here while i talk about it maybe um so there's gonna be three different ones there's gonna be the retro set the forest walk set and the candy shop set and those are three different sets that me and emily the designer of the stripey turtle tank created or curated because um we just thought it'd be really cute um and i love the different vibes that each set gives i made the retro set emily made the um forest walk set and emily's friend is making the candy stop set and they all knit up so good um so i'm really excited for you all to knit one up for yourself i knit mine in three days i talked about it in my last episode i believe more about it um so check that out if you haven't watched yet um what else oh also one more thing that will be on the shop update is the ghibli um club so if you don't know i do a ghibli um yarn club every month so if you're a fan of any of the ghibli movies i highly recommend you join in on this club so this will be the third month i believe june july august yeah so this is the third month so still a little baby club but um so the uh august palette is this hal's moving castle i've created the colorway already and let me tell you i'm stealing those skeins to make myself a cardigan i love it i love it so much it's totally my vibe so if it's my vibe might be your vibe i don't know but yeah i'm really happy with it the um the sets or the club is for sock sets so you could buy multiple sock sets if you want to make sweater but um yeah so they're all sock sets so that sock sets for august will be up in the shop update and also because i'm in japan and because shipping can be a little tough um for a lot of people who live outside of japan what i do is i do a three month sub not a subscription but a three month pre-order set so um for example if you for people who ordered this three-month set in june i'll be shipping out june july and august all together at the end of this month so that way they only need to pay for shipping once versus three times so that helps out a lot so this month in august i will be making the three month pre-order available so august september and october and those three sock sets will all be shipping out together in october end of october um a lot of people have been asking if they bought the yokai calendar um countdown calendar because i'm planning on shipping it out at the end of october anyways if i could combine shipping and yes i can so if you end up buying a bunch of stuff that needs to be shipped out at the end of october i'd be happy to combine shipping for you um i'll probably combine the shipping and then refund you um once it's all shipped out so that way i know what's what so if you're wondering about that there's that option um so yeah and then the for the three month i usually oh here's the inspo kind of what you can expect for the three month pre-order so august is house moving castle like i said september is the laffy lapid castle in the sky and october is mononoke or princess mononoke so i think i should put something up here so you can expect those three sets to be within that package and sent out to two in october so that will be fun i know a lot of people have been really um enjoying that option so if shipping was tough for you don't worry about it i try to combine shipping as much as possible um no matter what anyways so um yeah i think that is it for shop update stuff thanks for i feel like um that was already like that was already 30 minutes i think 20 minutes 30 minutes sorry this is gonna be a long episode so because i have a lot of acquisitions to to share with you and my whips have been kind of like funny lately and i have a lot to talk about so oh my gosh sorry this is going to be another long episode let me take a coffee break so it's just my regular cup has a little cat on it very cute okay let's move on to regular podcast content so first up fos have you noticed um so it's what i'm wearing right now this is the agave pullover by orlan of tet besh and this is the pattern that was in the newest amirisu spring summer magazine um and i talked about this quite a bit in my last episode so i won't go too far into it um just like a quick modifications reminder i guess well let me talk about the yarn the yarn is the so use two um two different colors but i made my stripes really subtle you could kind of see it on my sleeve these stripes here so this main color is explore knits and fibers um ally's uh which is from the sequoia national parks colorway and this is pretty much the only national park that i've been to well other than joshua tree i guess but um i got married in joshua tree national park and then um the only place i've been to camping is probably like yosemite and sequoia and so i bought sequoia because it was available in this online japanese online yarn shop and so the main color anyways the main color is that's going national park and then the stripy bits are my own big little yarnco um in bramble and this is just like the regular sock yarn superwash merino nylon i forgot what blend hers is but i think the bramble is 75.25 so yeah it turned out so cute um the sleeves came out perfectly i wanted it like longer but not too long well longer for me like versus three-quarter length this long sleeve but not too long i like to have it hit my wrist bone right here so it came out perfectly um there are no sleeve decreases in the pattern you just kind of do a quick decrease right here and then you just knit the the sleeve the cuff um what else did i do i did two tubular bind offs for all my cuffs which is my favorite when it's um when i have one by one rib i always do a tubular bind off so i did that for the neck as well um and the body so this is a very cropped um for those of you who always watch my episodes i always talk about how i like things cropped because i like high-waisted pants and then i like for it to sit like right above my pants um and yeah they came out perfectly honestly it fit the fit's really nice i really like the um the eyelets it's not super lacy so it's not see-through or anything but it still adds like a bit of interest to the um to the pattern and it's really easy to memorize and do the striping um i would love to make another one with more bolder stripes but i do really like how subtle the stripes turned out to be um yeah in love with it and i'm able to wear because i have the ac on right now but i'm probably going to take it off afterwards um it's because it's way too hot but i'm super excited to wear it during autumn it's a very autumnal kind of sweater so yeah super happy with that i think that's the only fo so i do have a few whips um so let me start with one that i've you're probably super tired of me talking about but i mean it's obviously it's a very uh long-term project i want to say so my merit so this is the first one first sleeve i finished you already know that since my last episode i finished the second sleeve so i've got two sleeves done and then i've started on the body started on the body it's going you know it's kind of a slow going type of project the ribbing was kind of killer i hate one by one ribbing and it was with size one needles and it was a lot of stitches so i'm glad that's over but yeah i'm really excited to finish and wear it it's just really hot and i don't know i i've realized since the last time we've talked that the during the summer i'm okay with knitting like it's not that big of a deal but knitting with like very woolly type of fibers kind of make me feel really hot and itchy so i've been kind of doing one row here and there but i haven't really been touching this too much just because it's so hot but i love how the sleeves turned down i really want to finish this so i could put them together and do the stick but yeah so it's this bit slow going project but i wanted to show you that i did stuff i did stuff since last time i promise so yeah this is pretty much like two weeks worth so it's almost nothing so yeah this has been kind of not on the back burner but if i want to do color work i end up working on the type of thing um so another project so after i cast it off this one i cast it on oh let me show you the back by the way this is alex collins designs um project bag this was her limited edition print but it's perfect it's like the perfect sweater bag hats very roomy and i like i really like um the drawstring as well and it has a little stamp on the back and i have she also includes included the like a postcard print type of thing um of this flower and i have it like right behind you i don't know if you could see it no you can't but it's right behind you at my desk so yeah um she also has a podcast episode or not a podcast and she has a youtube podcast and also you should just check out all her lovely lovely project bags and she has like um needle minders and things like that so check that out and then in here this is from a lovely friend um tiara of the love stitch um she also has a youtube podcast as well but she made me this project bag like a while ago and i love it so much it fits it gets a lot of stuff in here well anyways so if you follow me on instagram you've probably seen like this instagram post here hopefully it's there um so i cast it on the bloom cardigan by marion m knits and i've been eyeing that pattern for quite a while so and i knew exactly what i wanted to use i wanted to use this is woolly mammoth fiber co emma is a super talented natural dyer and she's super nice we talk sometimes she makes the most beautiful colored naturally colored yarn and i don't know how she does it she's a magician and yeah so this is um her limited edition dorset base and i have two skeins of this usually two skeins would be enough for a lar even a large sweater quantity like i still had a lot left over from this but what i didn't realize was that if i knit using more um i don't want to say rustic but more woolly wools i guess more um woolen spun wools it uses up a lot more yardage than you think versus something that's superwash i think it's just because the fibers tend to stick together you know like i don't know what it is so my yardage estimation was a bit off i think so i knew this much of it and i love the pattern and i love how it's knitting up but i don't think i have i'm pretty sure i don't have enough i have two skeins with this i've been alternating skeins i'm pretty sure i don't have enough for a cardigan so i've kind of paused on this and i think instead i'm gonna make a vest so i looked on ravelry for another like vest type of thing and the thing is i don't usually wear pink too much um i'm not really a pink person but when i saw this um during the update i got this from i saw this pink and i was just like i don't know it's calling my name it's a very dusky not bright pink and i really love that so um so i got it and i do really love the color but i don't think i would wear a pink sweater like i'm not that's too pink for me so like a cardigan you could wear something darker underneath or a more neutral color and it would kind of offset the pinkness but if you wore like a pink sweater it's just the pink sweater unless you put a coat over it and so i wanted it to be more of like a layering piece so i thought a vest would be a good idea so anyways i went on ravelry and i found the alberth slip over by gregoria fibers and i think that would be the perfect pattern switcheroo for this yarn um so yeah i'm gonna go ahead and unfortunately frog this and i did order some more dorset um wool from uh emma from her last update and i bought three skeins this time so i think that should be plenty to make the bloom cardigan properly this time so i'm gonna use this pink to make the slip over and then um use the dorset that i recently bought to make the bloom again one more time and i don't mind finding off i mean nuts i did do quite a bit but considering that it's a cardigan it's not that much um it's only like the upper back i got done pretty much so um yeah looks looks like a decent amount but it's not really so that's why i know that i probably don't have enough um skeins to make it out of this pink yarn but yeah so this is kind of on hold for now until i get the new the new dorset from emma um hopefully which is soon but yeah so this is gonna be frogged actually but i wanted to tell you about it it's gonna live in here and one more whip one more very very new whip i just i'm like not even done with the gauge swatch so here it is this is going to be the halves top by what's her name anna maltz it's like a vertical stripy top and i'm holding i'm doing the stripes with my own matcha and then this is coast to coast yarn co on her um every day is earth day colorway i think that'll make really fun stripes so i'm currently doing the gauge swatch i don't usually make like such a big one i know it's not that big but um the top is knit sideways so the since it's knit sideways the row gauge is super important and for some reason i cannot get it like um it calls for a size us3 needle um and then i forgot the exact amount of stitches for the row but um i looked at it and my row gauge for on the size us three is still way too big so right now i don't know if you could see these little like those little purl bumps right there that's where i switched needle sizes so i'm currently knitting using a size two but i'm kind of worried that the size two will make the fabric too thick so i'm not sure how that'll work i was thinking i was gonna just do the math you know if i need to make extra rows or something or a little less amount of rose but it's still too big so yeah we'll see what the us size two needles looks like and then hopefully i can cast on um and then my it's weird because my stitch gauge my so my width is correct but on a size four but obviously the size four row gauge is too big so i went down to the size three so now my stitch gauge is a little small but my road gauge is still too big so i'm probably going to have to cast on a little extra to make up for the smaller width but hopefully the row um the row gauge will be correct um and that'll and that'll work out because the row gauge is much more important if you're knitting sideways versus the usual up and down that if you go up and down you know you could try it on and figure it out from there but when it's sideways you it's hard to try on anyways and also um the width is kind of set once you cast on you can't really make it longer or shorter so yeah i'm making the gauge a little bigger than the usual my usual gauge which is pretty small and minimal i want to say yeah so we'll see what that happens but i am really excited about the striping that's going to be really fun so yeah that is my newest whip this is my um i usually have like a sweater cast on um when i'm dying yarn and so this will be my yarn dyeing whip and then usually these more um woolier whips are for my bedtime movie watching whips um so yeah uh that's it for work in progress so my acquisitions i went a little crazy a little crazy just just a little i think this may be my biggest yarn haul like all at once like i bought it i think i okay i think i used two cards for it um but i checked out only twice and i have this much yarn i think this is like the biggest haul so um so i should preface by saying that i bought this all from one yarn shop it's called yarnaholic and it's a japan-based yarn shop that carries um different hand-dyed yarns from around the world so non-japanese dyers so there's dyers like coast to coast red um red pansy um ren and ollie life in the long grass all that kind of stuff so they carry those um yarn dyers and one it's not a usually not a pre-order they do have pre-orders sometimes for certain dyers but um it's usually not a pre-order and two i'm not competing with like there's not as much japanese um customers for these people i guess like living in japan so you know when i bought this sequoia national park like usually people are just like going really fast to buy these exploring its pre-orders but when i bought this like there was still more left because you know there's just not as many japanese customers for exploring it's here so when that one that happens you know you could window shop and you can look around take your time and i took my time and i came out with a lot of yarn so when i buy yarn i usually buy um i usually purchase by sweater quantity so my sweater quantities are um two skein if it's fingering weight it's usually two skeins dk weight i prefer dk weight to be cardigans i don't know that's just me like when i look at my favorites list on ravelry all my dk weight stuff is cardigan patterns and then my fingering weight is sweater patterns i don't know i think that's just like subconsciously that's just what i like so dk wait i buy three skeins um fingering weight i buy two unless i have a specific pattern in mind and you know i need more or less of certain things so so i'm trying to like explain trying to explain myself but um so the first thing so the first cart checkout that i did oh no everything fell okay so first car checkout so this all started because i saw that life in the long grass was getting um was coming into that shop the yarnaholic shop and i'm a big fan of life in the long grass and um i don't know before i wanted to buy it but i think before i was able to support myself with my business it was just really hard to um kind of purchase yarn when i lived in l.a like the cost of rent was higher you know everything was more expensive and i just didn't have the means to purchase yarn but here you know i own my own house i dye yarn for a living like i just have more means to purchase the things that i want and which is really nice and this all that is to say that you don't have to buy you know i lived without buying all these hand-dyed yarns for i think it's going to be 10 years of knitting next year but you really don't need hand-dyed yarns to knit pretty things like i didn't the only reason why i know how to dye yarn is because i had to do it myself because i couldn't afford it and places like nitpicks and joanne's and things like that you know that's totally fine and you can make beautiful garments with things that are more your budget and that's totally okay and you know when i was when i didn't have the means to purchase this type of stuff like i think i was pretty happy and i would still be happy without any of this i want to say but also at the same time buying pretty yarn is people joke that it's like a whole nother hobby and it's totally true like i totally get it now that you know buying hand-tied yarn for yourself is just like another aspect of knitting that can also be fun and can be as much as you want it to be and not as much as you want it to be at the same time like you don't have it doesn't have to be such a huge thing so anyways i just want to say that you really don't need any of this and i really don't need any of this but i find a lot of joy in purchasing hand-dyed yarns so anyways that is to say i bought some life-and-long grass so this was in the shop and i loved i fell in love with these speckles like look at that how can you not fall in love with that and i since i'm a yarn dyer i personally try to find hand-eyed yarns where i'm like i don't know how you did it like i don't know i can't figure out what your recipe is like i don't know how you did it so so yeah that's my kind of i don't know standard i guess when i buy yarn and you know every single yarn dyer dyes yarn differently and i'm sure me thinking that i know how they did it is probably not how they did it um i don't know that's just what i use to justify to myself that i don't need to make my own recipes so this is my first purchase life in the long grass so this is their dk weight their dk twist 100 superwash merino in the weathered colorway and i am planning to make a finale cardigan by arlen souk as you can tell i love orlan's designs like i think the i think how she constructs her patterns it just fits my body type very well and so yeah that's gonna be a phenol cardigan so after this i bought this and i was like okay i'm good but then the yarnaholic shop sent out a newsletter email saying that there was going to be a little sale going on for certain yarn dyers in the shop so i was like i gotta i have to so so i bought some um i do have plans for all of these i have them all in my queue i usually cue them up with the yarn kind of in the notes section so i know what i want to do with them and obviously those aren't concrete but um but yeah so i i know what i'm gonna do with all of them but i can't remember off the top of my head anyways first one i bought is this beautiful eden cottage yarns it's my first time with the eating cottage yarns and it is this beautiful green blue color kind of blows out when i bring it close i think it's not as bright as it looks it's probably more accurate back here it's very it's like a moody blue green it's um 100 super wash extra fine merino wool fingering weight in their colorway kraken and i love this color i love it i love a glue a glue i love a good blue green gets me every time i love green green's my favorite and then so i got two positive e's two color ways of positivity so these are all sweater quantities for me first one is spicy mix so this is positive ease spicy mix so good kind of reminds me of my my own patina colorway almost but more grungy i want to say more moody i love that so it's like a warm gray with a bunch of like burnt orange speckles yeah that would be really cute really excited for that and then another positive ease just reaching over sorry another positive ease is this um viking colorway so it's a very dark almost purplish gray and it's got it's got speckles as well very nice so this is the two compared together they look kind of similar on screen and i guess i have a type you know um it's funny because once i bought all of these colorways i'm like oh my gosh i totally have a type but yeah so this is like a the dark gray sister to this lighter gray they look really good together actually now that i look at it but yeah so i've got another sweater quantity of that i told you i told you i got a lot then last one is another two skeins of coast to coast i love i want all of erin's colorways like seriously it's so hard to choose when i'm trying to purchase yarn but this is one of the colorways that i've saw like the very first time when i first followed her like i want to say like a few years ago before i even started dying yarn myself maybe um i saw this colorway and i was like oh that's pretty back then i couldn't afford it but now i can so it feels really good um this is her wood pile colorway and it is so pretty it's this grungy gray purple and you could tell it's a bit more purple than gray there's like splashes of purple as you can see and also lots of speckles going on oh it's so pretty so yeah sweater quantity of this yeah so let me show you the colors all together because i totally have a type i mean do i have a type or do i have a type so i think my type i want to say are grungy dark purples blues and greens i'm down with that i'm fine with that so yeah i have plans for all of these um i just can't remember off the top of my head but obviously i'll tell you all about it ballot tell you all about it when i start casting on so yeah that's it that's finally it um it's probably another long episode thank you for sticking around oh also um for reading i've been in a reading slump lately um i didn't even finish my last i'm in charge of the big little there's a big little book club over on discord link will be down below august's book will be the magpie murders by anthony horowitz i believe is his name um i read it a long time ago but i don't remember what it's about so i'm really excited to try to get back into reading with this one because i remember i enjoyed it i just don't remember why um so yeah if you want to join us for august book club um yeah link will be down below no pressure in posting at all you could just read over other people's comments there's also an area where you could talk about your whips and your foes and it's just a place to just hang out you know and talk about books and knitting slash crocheting or crafting whatever is your jam so yeah that again link will be below ah that's a long one this is a lot of yarn um but i love it i think it feels weird if i don't touch yarn at least once during the day like i think i've touched yarn every single day for about a year now and i'm totally okay with that bam thank you for watching thanks for sticking around um let me know if you've stuck around this far let me know well let me know what you've been working on what's your whip are you enjoying it are you having trouble with it let me know in the comments and i'll see you next time bye [Music] you

Channel: Cozy Cardigans (Mel of Big Little Yarn Co.)

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Length: 55min 39sec (3339 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 06 2021