So, I spent time in January looking for yarn in Peru. Perhaps there is somewhere in Lima that I failed to look. But what I found was that there are not wonderful knitting stores that showcase Peruvian yarn. Nor are there lots of knitting stores that have needles and etc....The stores that call themselves yarn stores have acrylic yarn from China on shelves.
But I need something to take on the plane with me if I run out of yarn on this project. So, of course, I have to buy yarn for another project. Huge Phooey! huh?
So I take a stroll around the Inka market which is where I found the best yarn last time. And I found probably the same yarn that I bought last time:
And I spent several hours with the help of some of my knitting buddies at home sorting through possible projects in order to return to the market to buy some yarn. I had also scouted out a place that had knitting needles as well as a yarn needle that I need to finish Mary's pouf.
So here are the projects in case the same thing happens to me again next year:
Embrace the detours.
I was thinking of this as a possible use for two natural colors of alpaca. Fingering on size 7 needles. Two colors approx 225 yards of each color.
Melanie Berg's La Crau
Fingering weight yarn. US 6 needles. # colors with 393 yards each.
Newsprint Cowl
Again, I was thinking of two shades of Natural Alpaca. Light Fingering. Size 4 needles. 620-670 yards of yarn.
Agatha Shawl
The pattern for this is in the Fall 2018 Knitscene magazine which I bought digitally. I have had trouble downloading the magazine, but it says it is available on the Interweave site. I got information on yarn and etc from Ravelry.
Fingering yarn. US 3 needles. 770 yards of yarn.
In the Loop pattern.
Did not buy the pattern yet. It is knit on size 8 needles using worsted weight yarn
Aviendha Shawl
Lace weight yarn. US size 4 needles. 567 yards of yarn.
385 yards of fingering weight for main color. 195 yards of contrasting color. Size 5 needles. I am thinking that this might be the pattern I do. Because it is knit in the round, I believe that I can switch more than one color in rounds.
Ok, so then I went to buy the needles. Funny little store. The owner must not really be a knitter .....or perhaps her knitting experience is just different from that in the US. She had only needles in mm and only in the whole sizes or the half sizes....that is she had 3 and 3.5 but nothing in between. So I purchased size 3 and size 3.5 which are equivalent to size 2 and 4. Lucky that scarves and such are not so specific for gauge! The needles that I am using for the project right now are size 7,
So I began to look for patterns. And since my knitting group at home was meeting the same day, I asked for suggestions. So here are the patterns that I pulled together for the day. The below pattern was from the website: In the Loop.
Sally sent me patterns. I think that one of them was a pattern from Melanie Berg. So I started looking at her site. She is one of my favorite designers. Her patterns are also associated with the name Mairilynd. The above pattern is La Crau
Sally suggested Aviendha Shawl:
And I had a pattern I liked from Purl Solo that might fit the bill. It is called Newsprint.
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