Chunky Yarns are Funky Yarns

Tosca by Lang in Switzaland
Yes I know I'm meant to be impartial so I can help others choose what is most suitable to them but Tosca is my favouritistist yarn.

An all round good chunky, of the slub variety as I call it, a simple twist that keeps the yarn open and light and warm.

We stock in Tosca many variations on a theme - Tosca West, Maxi, Degrade and Jaspe.
Thats a narrow band stripe, a variagated width stripe, a wide band stripe and a solid.

Tosca is a half wool to synthetic mixture. It will knit from 6 to 8mm needles

50g, 92m, £3.40

One of the types of things I love to do with knitting is experimenting with stitches in scarves.
I best enjoy slip stitches in one form or another using self various striping yarns that alternate from one row to the next. You get some beautiful blending effects which is why I call this one my Marble scarf - done in Tosca.

I call this one my Trellis Scarf. It was done for Christmas. So incredibly simple. Come in the shop and all the patterns I write are free! Why? Cos I'm nuts.

Magnum from King Cole

You know I was only thinking (Jan 2009) well what with grey cold days of winter and economic doom and gloom, what will people want?
My conclusion was to get some strong hearty colours to put a bit of zest and uplift back into us all.

Magnum, you can't really go wrong with it. An acrylic wool mix that wears and washes well and knits the full chunky range from 6mm to 8mm needles.

100g, 121m, £3.50
I'm going to shut up now so you can just emmerse yourself in the lovely pics.

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