{"id":4166,"date":"2026-08-08T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2026-08-08T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T23:40:47","slug":"and-solo-skeins-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/and-solo-skeins-too\/","title":{"rendered":"And Solo Skeins, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday to you!<\/p>\n<p>I used the <strong>Superwash Merino worsted weight<\/strong> this week.\u00a0 Because of the yardage that comes on some of the cones, I was able to pull up 28 skeins this week, and chose to make a few Solo skeins, along with mostly Twinsets.<\/p>\n<p>And while most of the yarns this week were dyed with a single color, a few came from pre-blended dyes leftover from last week&#8217;s leftover colors.\u00a0 \u00a0Like #636-637 is leftover blackened-red from last week.<\/p>\n<p>Twinset #638-639 is from a dye jar labeled &#8220;Fluorescent Red&#8221;.\u00a0 Into the remaining dye in the bath I added chestnut to create Twinset #647-648.<\/p>\n<p>There are two different kinds of purple this week &#8212; #650-651 is a deep rich solid, while the Solo #627 allowed me to capture the remaining purple dye in the bath, so it isn&#8217;t quite as deep and rich.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the yarns are solid or nearly-solid, but some look like kettle dyes. There are several fades as well, such as #630-631, which is a fade of the leftover dye from #644-645.\u00a0 And #632-633 is a fade from the remaining dye in the bath after dyeing #646-647.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, these are all 100% Superwash Merino, worsted wt., 220 yards each, and will be $28.00 on the Blog Reader Specials page.\u00a0 For Saturday and Sunday, visitors are invited to select any two or more skeins for just $26.00 at Preview Pricing.<\/p>\n<p>To claim the ones you want, just <a href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto:ray@knitivity.com\"><strong>send me an email<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll mark your request off the Available Yarns table shown below, and then send a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 Even if you don&#8217;t have a PayPal account, you can still use your debit or credit card and they will process it for me so I never see your payment method or personal account information.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to have these ready to ship on or about Wednesday this coming week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Available Yarns:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>#1:\u00a0 <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">627<\/span><\/del><strong>, 628, 629, 630, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">631<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">632, 633<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">634<\/span><\/del><strong>, 635, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">636<\/span><\/del><strong>, 637, 638, 639, 640<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>#2:\u00a0 641, 642, 643, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">644<\/span><\/del><strong>, 645, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">646<\/span><\/del><strong>, 647, 648, 649, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">650<\/span><\/del><strong>, 651, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">652, 653<\/span><\/del><strong>, <\/strong><del><span style=\"color: #cbcbcb;\">654<\/span><\/del><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4169\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyes yarns in many colors, drying on a rack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack1-768x756.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4168\" src=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack2.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of hand-dyes yarns in many colors, drying on a rack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack2-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knitivity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/BRS26-08Aug-Rack2-768x754.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Saturday to you! I used the Superwash Merino worsted weight this week.\u00a0 Because of the yardage that comes on some of the cones, I was able to pull up 28 skeins this week, and chose to make a few Solo skeins, along with mostly Twinsets. And while most of the yarns this week were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/and-solo-skeins-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And Solo Skeins, Too!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4166","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\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}