Bought Nø Sheep for You last night at Barnes & Ignoble, as countgeiger was fool enough to accede to my request to browse a bookshop after dinner, and then more fool to say, "no, that can come out of joint money".
Rowan's Calmer (http://www.knitrowan.com/html/yarns_results_new.asp?groupcode=18&weight=null&spec=null&guage=null) is suggested as an alternative to wool when doing heavy-duty cabling, as in one pattern called "Morrigan" because of all the wrasslin' required to work out how to do good cabling in yarn. Here's a pic of someone else's work in progress:
It's 75% cotton, 25% acrylic microfibre, and anyone who makes the Celtic Complaint can be smacked about the head and shoulders with Viking Patterns for Knitting, which is all patterns from runestones and similar, all interlace (except when it's runes) and would, I ween, work with this yarn.
Now, stranded knitting--by which I mean, having different colors at the same time that aren't stripes--is a bit of a different beastie. I'm thinking that perhaps something like Southwest Trading Company's Pure (http://www.soysilk.com/pure.html), which is made from soy (specifically, leftovers from making tofu).
You're in for It Now, Missy!
Rowan's Calmer (http://www.knitrowan.com/html/yarns_results_new.asp?groupcode=18&weight=null&spec=null&guage=null) is suggested as an alternative to wool when doing heavy-duty cabling, as in one pattern called "Morrigan" because of all the wrasslin' required to work out how to do good cabling in yarn. Here's a pic of someone else's work in progress:
It's 75% cotton, 25% acrylic microfibre, and anyone who makes the Celtic Complaint can be smacked about the head and shoulders with Viking Patterns for Knitting, which is all patterns from runestones and similar, all interlace (except when it's runes) and would, I ween, work with this yarn.
Now, stranded knitting--by which I mean, having different colors at the same time that aren't stripes--is a bit of a different beastie. I'm thinking that perhaps something like Southwest Trading Company's Pure (http://www.soysilk.com/pure.html), which is made from soy (specifically, leftovers from making tofu).
Clearly, more research is in order... ;)
-- Lorrie