Urban Renewal

This being the day after Christmas I was thinking about the mall - not actually going there but about people who DO go there regularly. I tend to think of malls and young adults who might be kind of edgy-cool. You know the kind who stand around in small groups taking in everything and passing judgement on it. Being also a fan of the Borderland series I tend to see these young people as possibly crossing the line into fairy. (Read some Charles DeLint if you don't know what I'm talking about.) What does that have to do with yarn? I'm making a new series called Urban Wild Child. It is a two ply series of yarns made from batts of various colors and styles with some non matching edginess thrown in to keep it all interesting. Just the kind of yarn those kids at the mall might be wearing knit into a cowl or scarf..... It starts out like this as a single (you need two bobbins full)

Then the two bobbins are plied together (on the Ashford) to make the two ply yarn below:

The skein below was the first Urban Wild Child and has more gray in it than the above one will have. Lots of yardage and a fingering to sport weight yarn. Corriedale/Merino/Sari Silk/Bamboo/Tencel and Crystal Mylar. All hand dyed fibers.