{"id":6033,"date":"2014-07-18T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2014-07-18T09:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:51:50","slug":"yarn-review-llama-sparkle-from-red-barn-yarn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/yarn-review-llama-sparkle-from-red-barn-yarn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarn Review: Llama Sparkle from Red Barn Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hello, friends! Long time no see, hm? I’m sorry about my summer absence. My boys take up a lot of my day time and I just have not been able to plan any posts. I’m here today with something good, though–my very first yarn review!<\/p>\n

I was sent a skein of Llama Sparkle from Red Barn Yarn<\/a>. It is a hand-painted worsted weight yarn that is 95% baby llama and 5% stellina, so it is soft as butter with a little sparkle. To be honest, I don’t usually purchase yarns with shiny stuff spun into them, so this was a treat. What really made my day, though, was the color. It was a little tough to capture the perfect shade, but you can see some of the variation below:<\/p>\n

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Beautiful, huh? The sparkle is very subtle, but it gives the perfect amount of shine. You can see the other yarn bases and colors available from Red Barn Yarn on their website<\/a>. You can also find a list of their stockists. If you can’t find a retailer close by, you can contact them to purchase yarn directly by emailing info@redbarnyarn.com.<\/p>\n

With just one skein, I made this gorgeous cowl! I browsed my stitch dictionary and found this one called “Mrs. Hunter’s Pattern” and it reminded me of crochet. I knew that I wouldn’t have enough yarn for a crochet project, so I really wanted to use this stitch. I love the color variation in the yarn SO MUCH! It looks pretty amazing in this pattern, too. I feel like my photos don’t do it justice, but of course I took a ton anyway.<\/p>\n

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Like I said previously, this yarn is like butter. The baby llama is incredibly soft and bloomed beautifully after a wash. There was a little bit of color in the water after I soaked the cowl, but I didn’t notice any fading in the actual yarn. <\/p>\n

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When I got to the end of my cowl, I realized I did not like the curling at the bottom (I went straight into the pattern after casting on), so I finished it off with a knit 3, purl 1 rib and a crochet cast-off and border. The result was a scalloped edge that lays relatively flat. I then picked up stitches along my cast-on edge and did the same thing there!<\/p>\n

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Let me know if there is any interest in a full pattern write up! I can whip something up to share with you guys. I was looking at my pattern page<\/a> and realized I have waaaaay more crochet patterns than knit ones! I need to remedy that.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in learning more about Red Barn Yarn, check out their website and if you have any further questions, join the Ravelry group: Red Barn Yarn Afficianados<\/a>!<\/p>\n

What are you doing this summer? Getting any knitting or crochet done in this heat?! I was straight up sweating during these photos. IN MY AIR CONDITIONED HOME! I can’t wait until it’s cold outside and I can wear this on my walks to my kids’ school. I’m gonna be so toasty!<\/p>\n

Disclosure: I was given a skein of free skein of yarn for review purposes. All opinions are my own.<\/i><\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Hello, friends! Long time no see, hm? I’m sorry about my summer absence. My boys take up a lot of my day time and I just have not been able to plan any posts. I’m here today with something good, though–my very first yarn review!<\/p>\n

I was sent a skein of Llama Sparkle from Red Barn Yarn. It is a hand-painted worsted weight yarn that is [Read More…]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,159],"tags":[227,242,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}