Category: Wool and Yarn

  • Dye Lots and Why They Bite

    Dye Lots and Why They Bite — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.

  • Superwash Wool: What Changes

    Superwash Wool: What Changes — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.

  • Wool Weights Explained: Fingering to Chunky

    Wool Weights Explained: Fingering to Chunky — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.

  • Reading a Yarn Label Without Guessing

    Reading a Yarn Label Without Guessing — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.

  • Lanolin, Left In or Washed Out

    Lanolin, Left In or Washed Out — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.

  • Why Donegal Tweed Yarn Has Flecks

    Why Donegal Tweed Yarn Has Flecks — from the Sliabh Wool journal, the notebook of a small-batch knitter of Irish wool beanies: what the wool does, what the needles do, what the weather does to both.

    Donegal yarn keeps its flecks because the colour is carded in, not dyed on; a ribbed brim holds where a rolled one drifts; a beanie blocked over a bowl keeps its crown, and one blocked over a radiator keeps nothing. The journal runs a little of each: patterns, wool, care and repair, and notes from the two coasts the wool comes from.

    Sliabh Wool is a fictional maker on a test site used by GoodToGo Media’s analytics platform; there is nothing for sale here.