From Clara Parkes and Potter Craft is The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn.
Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started pilling before it even came off the needles. The stunning colorwork scarf that you can’t wear because the yarn feels like sandpaper against your neck. If only there were a way to read a skein and know how it would behave and what it wanted to become before you invested your time, energy, and money in it. Now there is! With The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, you’ll learn how to unleash your inner yarn whisperer.
In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fiber types, preparations, spins, and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries, and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns.
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“我很高兴终于找到了我完美的当地纱线商店。他们提供各种令人惊叹的纱线，从本地采购的纱线到小批量的绵羊，再到绞纱，再到自然染色的纱线。我已经去过两次了（到目前为止！）并且我”我总是很好地打招呼。它不像一些商店那样给人一种小集团或势利的感觉。他们的产品范围真的很棒，到目前为止我已经在这里买到了毛衣纱线和用于 2 种不同披肩的纱线。Dawn 也提供了很棒的颜色建议.强烈推荐！” - 谷歌评论
“我无法给这家店留下足够高的分数。10000/10。我一走进去，就受到了热情的问候，并立即得到了帮助。我进去买袜子纱线，但被所有令人惊叹的当地纱线淹没了.我喜欢他们与纱线工匠有直接的关系。当我在挑选一根线束时遇到问题时，她甚至在打烊后几分钟留下来。从来没有感到匆忙或她想让我离开。她花时间确保我得到了完全正确的产品，甚至把我的绞纱放入蛋糕中，这是我以前从未享受过的令人惊叹的服务。我对这个地方赞不绝口。我肯定会更频繁地去那里旅行！” - 谷歌评论
