{"id":3923,"date":"2026-06-06T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:53:24","slug":"for-better-or-for-worsted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/for-better-or-for-worsted\/","title":{"rendered":"For Better or For Worsted!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Saturday to You!<\/p>\n

This week we get something different!\u00a0 We have 100% Superwash Merino, worsted wt., 220 yards\/100 grams each.<\/p>\n

Last week I ordered some new dyes — a couple dyes to replenish what I had, and a few new-to-me colors, including Amethyst (Twinset #477-478), and Aqua Tropic, which appears on a few Twinsets; it is the only blue-adjacent dye I used this week.<\/p>\n

There are several brown or brown-adjacent colors on hand because I was attempting a Camo colorway for a friend, so the browns along with a gold and spruce I did as solid dyes for you in today’s line-up.\u00a0 The Spruce is a\u00a0 single dye from the jar, but it is clearly made up of different pigments at the manufacturer as it seemed to separate during the dip-dyeing — an assortment of dark greens and browns all mixed together.<\/p>\n

Twinset #471-472 is a solid Crocodile Green, but I have trouble distinguishing it from the emerald and some other middle greens I have available.\u00a0 (Personally, I prefer my own Knitivity Green #1 that I blend myself from a precise recipe of a yellow and a blue, but it’s nice to have a variety of greens available.)<\/p>\n

Twinset #473-474 is a sort of sand color that reminds me of my mother’s camel hair jacket, but the fade effect is difficult to see; it’s more of a nearly-solid, and will pair with any of the solid brown variations (#469-470, 479-480, or 485-486).\u00a0 Looking at them all together, I think a five-color set of 473, 489, 479, 485, and 469 would make an amazing Find-Your-Fade type shawl.\u00a0 Or make take all five of these\u00a0 Twinsets for a neutral-tone gradient or ripple lapghan.<\/p>\n

All of these will be available on the Blog Reader Specials page<\/strong><\/a> for $28.00 per skein later this coming week.\u00a0 Visitors are welcome to claim any matching Twinset<\/strong><\/em> on Saturday or Sunday for just $26.00 per skein.<\/p>\n

To claim the ones you want, just send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your requested numbered items.\u00a0 I will mark your requests off the Available Yarns table shown below, and then send you a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 If you are outside the U.S. please let me know so I can calculate your shipping charges.<\/p>\n

I expect to have this week’s collection ready to ship on or about Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n

Available Yarns:<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 1 – <\/strong>467<\/span><\/del>, 468, 469, 470, <\/strong>471<\/span><\/del>, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, <\/strong>477<\/span><\/del>, 478<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 2 – 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Saturday to You! This week we get something different!\u00a0 We have 100% Superwash Merino, worsted wt., 220 yards\/100 grams each. Last week I ordered some new dyes — a couple dyes to replenish what I had, and a few new-to-me colors, including Amethyst (Twinset #477-478), and Aqua Tropic, which appears on a few Twinsets; … Continue reading For Better or For Worsted!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-reader-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}