I check this blog site every day.  Some of this checking is from my sick obsession to see how many people are reading it. I figure it to be caused by equal parts of1) Wanting to increase Pagewood Farm name recognition and 2) My ego at having my blog read.

I’ve had some requests for information about our U-Knitted Nations yarns. Here it is. The photo below shows our Hand Spun Bouquet. It is a hand spun wool (50 yards per approx. 5.5 oz 165grm). It is hand spun in Latin America and they tie felted flowers onto the yarn.  This photo shows 5 of the available colors.  We are updating our website to include a section on Hand Spun Bouquet.

This next photo is of another popular U-Knitted Nations yarn called Giant Purls (get it? Pearls? to Purls?) It is a 70 yard skein of hand spun yarn with felted balls tied onto it. I felt that Giant Purls was a cute name (consider the alternative) and very descriptive. Giant Purls are available in Natural and in our 14 tone-on-tone solids. This photo shows several of the colors.

But, what do I do with them?  What can I make with the Hand Spun Bouquet and the Giant Purls???  The easiest projects are to take a 19 or larger needle and cast on 5 or so rows.  It makes a nice thin scarf. 
As I wrote in one of my TNNA blog entries, our friend StevenB. from Minneapolis (Yarn Garage, StevenBe's) favors more spacing between the U-Knitted Nations yarn to allow the beauty of the yarn to show through.  He recommends 1-2 rows of the thick yarn with 2-4 rows of a thinner yarn (still knit on the big needles) separating the U-Knitted Nations.

Duty calls (more yarn to ship) so I will continue with some creations tomorrow.