Tomorrow’s shop update is all about Mini Skeins! The shop will be updated at noon ET with 3 different Mini Skein Sets (bright, pastel and speckles) and loads of Sock Sets as well. I’ve already added the images of everything that will be available to the listings but they will be marked as sold out until noon tomorrow when I add all the inventory. Exciting!
These Mini Skeins are made possible because I’m finally able to purchase 25g mini’s from my manufacturer! Up until now I only had access to full skeins so every single mini we sold was hand wound into a mini skein by me (or the poor unfortunate soul who worked for me). Since I haven’t had any outside help since the pandemic the first thing to go was the mini’s. They are just too time consuming and labour intensive to do on my own. I managed a few Sock Set updates but from now on they should be way more manageable! The base I’m making them with is our Blue Label Sock Yarn. It’s a sturdy 80/20 superwash merino/nylon sock yarn. I’ve been using it for years and it is a wonderful yarn for socks and garments alike. All the details are in the listing. ;)
Now, what to make with a Mini Skein Set? Great question. My answer: the sky is the limit! You can use them together in a show-stopping colourful yoke for a sweater or break them up and use them for a collection of ornaments, toys, tiny striped knits… add a MC and use them for stripes in something like my Lifesavers sweater. Rainbow shawls and scarves, marled projects! Literally anything. I love having a big bin of leftovers hanging around to use for colourful projects and mini skein sets are basically a shortcut to the world’s best leftover bin. Here are a few ideas that I can’t stop thinking about myself:
Summerland Sock Set by Summer Lee (or basically any Summer Lee Knits sock pattern set!), Rock It Tee by me project by Emily, Luminosity Sweater by me, Simple Stripes by SuviKnits particularly inspired by this project by Skeincocaine.
It just makes me feel good to have an assortment small amounts of colourful fingering weight yarn at my disposal at all times! I knit a lot of projects where I want to use a little bit of a lot of colours and I used to stress over breaking into a full skein for a small amount - that’s where mini’s really come in handy. Although, I have to add that I no longer stress about those things. Breaking into a brand new skein of yarn, even if only for a little bit of yardage, is better than not using the skein at all and it ultimately just adds to my bin of leftovers so I’m totally comfortable with it now!
The 25 g skeins are also the perfect thing for Sock Sets! I’ve paired a 25g mini in our Blue Label sock yarn with a full skein of our PureWash Sock (all of our fingering weight bases can be used together beautifully). I love knitting simple socks with these sorts of sets. I tend to favour my Trusty Toe Up Sock pattern for a perfectly basic but fun sock when using these colourful sock sets.
In case you can’t tell, I’m incredibly excited about the return of the mini’s and hope to be able to have them in stock pretty regularly going forward. I’ll likely mix up the palettes we offer but you can be pretty confident that there will be lots of rainbows available in the future! See you tomorrow!