New Yarn – Diamond Select Alpaca Prima & the Cross Canada KAL
July 19, 2015
Christina, one of our lovely friends-of-the-store has been hosting a summer-long Instagram KAL, or knit a-long, focused on Canadian dyers or designers.
To participate, knit any design made by a Canadian or with any Canadian yarn anytime between the first and last day of summer, and tag your post cckal or crosscanadakal.
So last week I started a new child-sized sweater knit from our Canadian designer pals at Tin Can Knits called Harvest Cardigan, with a yarn new to the store call Diamond Select Alpaca Prima. This pattern can be found online as part of their amazing and entirely FREE Simple Collection.
For all my love of alpaca I’ve had a hard time finding one that would hold its shape. This DK-weight workhorse yarn includes a blend of 40% Highland Wool, 30% Superfine Alpaca and 30% Polyamide that gives it strength and structure while providing the softness and subtle halo of the luxury alpaca. Diamond Select Alpaca Prima provides a bit of lush affordability at $6.95/50g/100m.
Some of the one dozen colours available.
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