Oh, those greens, Gary! I just can't get over them! That is exactly why I love green - the tone on tone is like the shadows and light in a forest. Makes my heart so happy!
Hi Gary ! Always good to see you ❤. WOW what beautiful color yarns. Can’t wait to see what you make with them. I’m sure it will be stunning ! WOW that Happy one is gorgeous. Trust would be my favorite. Love it ! Gorgeous what Hank was wearing. Blessings Gary !! ❤❤
Love your knitted scarf! Chads sweater also...ur amazing. Purple is my favorite color but honestly those yarns are a little too rich for my blood. My cell ringtone is Purple Rain. Short story and nothing to do with yarn, I hope you dont mind. Last year I was standing in line in Home Goods and my cellphone rang. A lady and her teen daughter were behind me. So she started singing Purple Rain and I turned around and said "Hold on a minute, Prince is calling me". She said "Ohh I hope not, thats not good" and started laughing. We both had a good chuckle. lol Anyhooo looking forward to the Mal Boards presentation. Have a great weekend!
Hi Gary! It’s always great catching up with you! The yarn is just gorgeous! I love all the greens especially Nanuya Levu & the Evergreen! Looking forward to seeing what you make with all the yarn! Until next time…take care! xx
👋 Gary! You chose some beautiful colorways. I have always loved a varigated yarn. Keeps me interested in the project. I will wait to see what you create next. ✨️ 🫶 🌞 Take care from Arizona...
Good grief! I fell in love with all the yarn when you held up the organza bag. Beautiful! I can’t wait to see what you make with that stunning green. The yarn is so reasonably priced too. Great purchase!
Thank you for sharing your yarn goodies with us!! I’m working on Chandi’s Banda tee with some beautiful hand dyed yarn from a local lady, Th’Red Head designs!!! I just love the way you pair yarns. So artistic! Thanks Gary!!!!!
Hi Gary, I love yarnsmiths yarn, I made my daughter a jumper with it and it's beautiful. I love the green lagoon yarn too, so very pretty, reminds me of spring. We have remembrance weekend this weekend too. It's not a bank holiday but we have a lot of things going on where we remember the fallen, we must never forget 🫡
The Chuck lagoona yarn would be beautiful in brioche pattern Actually they all would be awesome ! If you like shawls! Andrea Mowry has a brioche shawl that has a solid and a color changing yarn. It’s beautiful. Also the Pressed flowers patterns.
Hi Gary! Love the yarn! I too just received an order from Wool Warehouse. Many many thanks to Crystal for being an enabler! 😂 I fell in love with the Lagoon yarn. I also got the green and a darker autumn color it was on special 4 for £10. I also purchased 2 different colors of the Sidar Jewelspun. I've wanted to try this yarn for a very long time and it was on sale too. 👍 A few others jumped in my cart as well. 😂 I was thinking of making a shawl with one of the lagoon colors and a hat and scarf with some of the Jewelspun. Or I can wait and see what you come up with. 😂 Thanks for sharing! 🤗💛
I'd love to hear what patterns you decide on for the new yarns you got. I have to pair a few with my yarns in the near future and put them into the ever growing wish make projects pile. I'm never short of what to make next (good for a few years if my calculations are correct).
Hi there it has been a while! I have been a little occupied and I thought I would pop in to see what you have been up to! Thanks for reintroducing me to mood boards… have not been using those for many years!!
Hi Gary! All of the yarn was so pretty. My favorite was the Lagoon Colorada. I also really liked the one’s that looked like washed out beach towels. Thank you for the wonderful entertainment while i crochet. 🤗🧶☕️
I just bought two balls of Cloud yarn by Art Yarns. They didn't have one colorway I've seen, so I went on an internet search and found it. It's been shipped. I'm going to Jacky 3-ply hats with the yarn-the Knitting Place in Port Washington, N.Y. City has a beautiful hat pattern that comes with the kit. Dina filmed a quick video 📼 of his doing the 3-ply technique. It's very cool how the Colts get redistributed. Put a pom pom on them and Wala. They look similar to the first yarn you showed. The Art Yarns is cashmere. It's dreamy. So acrylic vs cashmere, I don't think there is much of a comparison, thanks for tead8 g the yarns contents.
Hi Gary, Wool Warehouse is my favorite yarn store for natural fibers, although my yarn diet continues to whittle down this massive yarn collection! I'm currently working on a pullover starting with neck ribbing, then using alternating front loop hdc and back loop hdc in a spiral (this stitch sequence makes a draping fabric without being holey). I'm not sure whether I'll add sleeves at the shoulders, or simply add cuffs when the length reaches my hips. It's a bit mindless after the increase rounds, so I'll be checking back to the past to continue seeing your journey from the beginning. I love the "faded beach towel' description of the summer colors!
Hi Cynthia - Thanks for letting me know what you are working on. I'm almost finished with a sweater vest that's been in and out of my working cycle for over a year. It'll be a nice feeling - as you know to get to some other yarns that are screaming at me... LOL!
I really liked Happy then you showed Trust & I loved it. I think the two of them might be good together. I bought some of that Make it Tweed from a shop in Toronto a couple years ago & I still haven’t used it!
I googled Chuuk for the heck of it. It came up as one of the states of the Federation States of Micronesia. By looking at the pictures, the color way just may be this lovely island!
You are completely right - I had mistakenly thought it was a type of fish (but I had mixed that up with Chum - not Chuuk). I worry sometimes how my brain works.
Wow! I love those yarns! Currently working with Wool Warehouse yarns. The make it tweed is really great, I have used it before held double with a black yarn.
I really like the lagoon colorada. I think the autumnal nature of the colours would make a perfect Halloween mosaic crochet blanket with black as the main colour. Enjoy your yarn.
@@urbanyarn youre welcome, I recently did a comparison of Yarnsmith Create, Specialcraft DK, Heyfield Bonus DK, Scheepjes Colour Crafter and an Aussie brand - 4 seasons 'Marvel'... so I learnt more than I needed to know about these yarns lol.
Last video I was a young lover but this video I am a yarn lover! FYI Stuart from The WoolPatch is making a window again like the Olympihens. This time it is a Jimmy Does Knitting pattern, Chianti Cardi. He is going to make a Christmas tree with the sweater covered bottles. Lovely yarn haul! I love the Lagoon green especially. I am curious. Have you rated a yarn 5? Love to know at least one! My friend from Peru gets knitted gifts from her mother in law who still lives in Peru. She doesn't like the feel of alpaca so lucky me gets what she doesn't like! I'm afraid if I get anymore yarn, my daughter will have me committed!!! Lol! Hank is so lucky! Yes Gary, you do have a new fav! See you next time!
LOL (regarding "Young Lovers"). Stuart's window makes are always so inspiring! Lucky for you that your friend gifts you the yummy yarns she doesn't use.
Hi Gary. I loved your video today as wool warehouse is a site where I can get my yarn without having to spend a fortune on shipping. Anyways I was thinking if you think it's a good idea to show us and teach us which certain yarns work best with certain stitches as although I've been crocheting my whole life I admit I do find it hard to choose which stitches go best with the right yarn . So maybe you can help? And the way you mix yarn and colours are just perfect. Is that something you can teach us to do ? Or is that something that a real artist can identify?
Hello Anna! Thank you for the sweet message - I'm humbled. I do hope I capture what goes on in my creative process in these videos for you to take away something that helps you. Talking about projects I've done (or am doing) showcases choices of yarn with stitches (patterns). It's always wonderful to see a make in the works or finished to help answer the types of questions you are looking for. Keep playing with yarn - don't be afraid to try new things and colour is such a person expression.
New subscriber here from `England. Trying to place your accent - to me it sounds like an Englishman who swerved round Australia and ended up in Canada? 😂 Yarn is delicious!
Welcome Lynne! I'm glad you introduced yourself. I chuckled at the breakdown to your reasoning. I was born in Australia and moved to Canada - so mostly you guess right!
1st time to reply but recimmened by Crystal. Have been trying toget acquainted with new yarns since most of stash is RSS and similar yarns.yarn in the usual stores is disappointing so have gotten some mystery boxes and ordered from internet.i am not comfortable with the new yarns especially the vbulkier ones.dont like working writh woolbut the colors you showed were. Beautiful
Hello Diane. I'm happy that you commented and let me know how you found me. We love Crystal! One of the things I do when I want to try something new is wait for a sale and throw one or two new balls in a purchase. That way I'm not out much if I don't like it - or alternatively I can get more if it's a new favourite.
Hello Cecilia - modular project are smaller items (shapes) that are joined together to make a larger project. Similarly multiple granny squares joined together is a modular project.
Wool Warehouse is the only online place I shop now. I have loved all the Yarnsmith yarns I've tried, it's their own house brand and very affordable. I'm in the US and shipping is either free of $6, not bad at all 🧶
Wow! That's the way to go! In Canada the shipping to a bit more expensive to get the Wool Warehouse yarns - but if the sales are good that does make up for it,
Oh, those greens, Gary! I just can't get over them! That is exactly why I love green - the tone on tone is like the shadows and light in a forest. Makes my heart so happy!
Hi Gary. What beautiful colors of yarn. Your choices are great.
Hi Gary, Beautiful yarns. Thank you for sharing them with us as well as an alternative we might have in our stashes. 🧶🫂
Big Hugs Gary 🤗 love those Lagoon colorways. The Full of Beans reminds me of jaded blue jeans. Omg Emotions is gorgeous ❤
Such beautiful yarn!! I look forward to seeing the projects you make with it!
Hi Gary ! Always good to see you ❤. WOW what beautiful color yarns. Can’t wait to see what you make with them. I’m sure it will be stunning ! WOW that Happy one is gorgeous. Trust would be my favorite. Love it ! Gorgeous what Hank was wearing. Blessings Gary !! ❤❤
Hello Aida! Always so nice to read your messages. I hope you are well and working on something that you're getting lots of joy from.
The colors are absolutely gorgeous. I can’t wait to see what you make with them. I’ve have learned so much from you. ❤
Thank you so much for the kind message (I'm humbled)
Love your knitted scarf! Chads sweater also...ur amazing. Purple is my favorite color but honestly those yarns are a little too rich for my blood. My cell ringtone is Purple Rain. Short story and nothing to do with yarn, I hope you dont mind. Last year I was standing in line in Home Goods and my cellphone rang. A lady and her teen daughter were behind me. So she started singing Purple Rain and I turned around and said "Hold on a minute, Prince is calling me". She said "Ohh I hope not, thats not good" and started laughing. We both had a good chuckle. lol
Anyhooo looking forward to the Mal Boards presentation. Have a great weekend!
That Lagoon is gorgeous!! That is not usually my color but it is so very pretty!
The green is luscious!
You have a wonderful eye for color!
I love learning about new yarns, thank you so much!!!
I’m intrigued! A Canadian, he? Yes. I used to work in Bellingham Wa🎉 anything 🇨🇦🍁
Stunning yarns! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Gary! It’s always great catching up with you! The yarn is just gorgeous! I love all the greens especially Nanuya Levu & the Evergreen! Looking forward to seeing what you make with all the yarn! Until next time…take care! xx
Lori - we are such green lovers. Yay to the greens!
Those are beautiful colors!
Oh I love these colors!
👋 Gary! You chose some beautiful colorways. I have always loved a varigated yarn. Keeps me interested in the project. I will wait to see what you create next. ✨️ 🫶 🌞 Take care from Arizona...
Agreed! Especially if the stitching is the same throughout.
Darn it! The greens!!!!! I’m thinking Entralac knitting for all those colors!
I love the yarns you chose! ❤
Wow beautiful yarns!! Think I'll treat myself for Xmas. Your excitement is contagious! The cowl is gorgeous!! Wow
Hi Linda - Self-gifted yarn for the Holidays is perfect. You know you'll be happy with what you open.
So many gorgeous yarns, Gary! Thank you for sharing them with us! Hugs to you, Chad, and Pixel
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Hello friend! There are so many pretties in the Yarnsmiths collections!
Good grief! I fell in love with all the yarn when you held up the organza bag. Beautiful! I can’t wait to see what you make with that stunning green.
The yarn is so reasonably priced too. Great purchase!
This is Jill. Oh my lord those yarns are so beautiful. They make my heart melt and fill me with happiness!!!
Hello Jill - yarn to make hearts melt are my kind of yarns.
Hi Gary. Great yarn haul. Beautiful colors. Love the yarn balls and Happy Emotions.
Happy and Trust are my favourites!
Thank you for sharing your yarn goodies with us!! I’m working on Chandi’s Banda tee with some beautiful hand dyed yarn from a local lady, Th’Red Head designs!!! I just love the way you pair yarns. So artistic! Thanks Gary!!!!!
Hello Leslie - the project you're working on sounds wonderful!
Hi Gary, I love yarnsmiths yarn, I made my daughter a jumper with it and it's beautiful. I love the green lagoon yarn too, so very pretty, reminds me of spring. We have remembrance weekend this weekend too. It's not a bank holiday but we have a lot of things going on where we remember the fallen, we must never forget 🫡
Love all the Wool Warehouse yarn. The colorways are right up my alley. The cowl is gorgeous. You are so talented!🥰
The Chuck lagoona yarn would be beautiful in brioche pattern Actually they all would be awesome !
If you like shawls! Andrea Mowry has a brioche shawl that has a solid and a color changing yarn. It’s beautiful. Also the Pressed flowers patterns.
Thanks Carolb for the lead on the brioche pattern!
Some of the names are in Spanish Laguna Colorado = Red Lagoon, Pinto means spotted or has specks of color
This is so helpful - it's the translators that always come to the rescue! Thank you kindly!
beautiful colours :)
Hi Gary! Love the yarn! I too just received an order from Wool Warehouse. Many many thanks to Crystal for being an enabler! 😂 I fell in love with the Lagoon yarn. I also got the green and a darker autumn color it was on special 4 for £10. I also purchased 2 different colors of the Sidar Jewelspun. I've wanted to try this yarn for a very long time and it was on sale too. 👍 A few others jumped in my cart as well. 😂 I was thinking of making a shawl with one of the lagoon colors and a hat and scarf with some of the Jewelspun. Or I can wait and see what you come up with. 😂 Thanks for sharing! 🤗💛
I'd love to hear what patterns you decide on for the new yarns you got. I have to pair a few with my yarns in the near future and put them into the ever growing wish make projects pile. I'm never short of what to make next (good for a few years if my calculations are correct).
That Laguna Colorada was TOO beautiful to pass up! Had to get it!
Yay! Let me know what you think when you get it in your hands.
Hi there it has been a while! I have been a little occupied and I thought I would pop in to see what you have been up to! Thanks for reintroducing me to mood boards… have not been using those for many years!!
I'm glad you have returned. Be well and thank you for your support (as always).
Lagoon is such a pretty yarn! I want to see something made of it.
Me too! I'm excited to bundle at least one project up with a pattern and put it into the future WIP pile I have mounting up.
Hi Gary! All of the yarn was so pretty. My favorite was the Lagoon Colorada. I also really liked the one’s that looked like washed out beach towels. Thank you for the wonderful entertainment while i crochet. 🤗🧶☕️
It's the new craze - the yarn lovers who search for the "washed out beach towel" colours... LOL!
Full of Beans is such a cute name for yarn! Thanks for sharing
Agreed!
Thank you Gary for showing such beautiful yarns!
Hi Donna - it's my pleasure to show yarns. One would consider this therapy for all creators... LOL!
I just bought two balls of Cloud yarn by Art Yarns. They didn't have one colorway I've seen, so I went on an internet search and found it. It's been shipped. I'm going to Jacky 3-ply hats with the yarn-the Knitting Place in Port Washington, N.Y. City has a beautiful hat pattern that comes with the kit. Dina filmed a quick video 📼 of his doing the 3-ply technique. It's very cool how the Colts get redistributed. Put a pom pom on them and Wala. They look similar to the first yarn you showed. The Art Yarns is cashmere. It's dreamy. So acrylic vs cashmere, I don't think there is much of a comparison, thanks for tead8 g the yarns contents.
Hi Trudy - thanks for sharing the pattern you are working on with the yummy yarns you mentioned. Sounds delightful!
Thanks for sharing, I have only used the Yarnsmiths Pebble Haze DK so far and that is great to use and lots of beautiful colours ❤
Hello Sam! I've been eyeing the Pebble Haze DK - perhaps next time).
Gorgeous yarn, Gary, but you’re right: neither pinto horses nor pinto beans come in those colors. Will check out Wool Warehouse.
I thought the same thing!
I think you could use the green Lagoon with the other colorways as an accent. It might really look stunning!
Good idea Kyerrn!
Nice haul 🧶 Gary! I need to check them out!💜
Hello Rose! I know you're still in your craft-store mode. Wishing you every success. Keep warm out there.
Hi Gary, Wool Warehouse is my favorite yarn store for natural fibers, although my yarn diet continues to whittle down this massive yarn collection! I'm currently working on a pullover starting with neck ribbing, then using alternating front loop hdc and back loop hdc in a spiral (this stitch sequence makes a draping fabric without being holey). I'm not sure whether I'll add sleeves at the shoulders, or simply add cuffs when the length reaches my hips. It's a bit mindless after the increase rounds, so I'll be checking back to the past to continue seeing your journey from the beginning. I love the "faded beach towel' description of the summer colors!
Hi Cynthia - Thanks for letting me know what you are working on. I'm almost finished with a sweater vest that's been in and out of my working cycle for over a year. It'll be a nice feeling - as you know to get to some other yarns that are screaming at me... LOL!
😊hello Gary!!
Hello there friend!
I really liked Happy then you showed Trust & I loved it. I think the two of them might be good together. I bought some of that Make it Tweed from a shop in Toronto a couple years ago & I still haven’t used it!
Hello Judy! The Trust and Happy would have to be my favourites as well!
I googled Chuuk for the heck of it. It came up as one of the states of the Federation States of Micronesia. By looking at the pictures, the color way just may be this lovely island!
You are completely right - I had mistakenly thought it was a type of fish (but I had mixed that up with Chum - not Chuuk). I worry sometimes how my brain works.
……working just fine, that’s what Google is for!!! Lol
Very nice yarns and colors Gary. I am expecting a delivery from Hobbii today. Can't wait.
Perfect! I love when a new package arrives with yarn - especially from a wonderful yarn supplier like Hobbii!
Wow! I love those yarns! Currently working with Wool Warehouse yarns. The make it tweed is really great, I have used it before held double with a black yarn.
Sounds wonderful and squishy!
Love the yarn
Hello Laura!
I did kindof buy one of each color... there's a four for 10 GB sale! (25)
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Beautiful colors. Great pries too. Appreciate you sharing
Thanks Kindralutz!
I really like the lagoon colorada. I think the autumnal nature of the colours would make a perfect Halloween mosaic crochet blanket with black as the main colour. Enjoy your yarn.
Hi Valerie - I can see that working so lovely. They would also be a great candidate for the Beba Blanket pattern.
The Yarnsmiths 'Create' DK is made under license in Turkey. I would imagine it would be similar to all of the Yarnsmith brands.
Good find there. Thanks for helping the search on where this yarn is manufactured.
@@urbanyarn youre welcome, I recently did a comparison of Yarnsmith Create, Specialcraft DK, Heyfield Bonus DK, Scheepjes Colour Crafter and an Aussie brand - 4 seasons 'Marvel'... so I learnt more than I needed to know about these yarns lol.
Last video I was a young lover but this video I am a yarn lover! FYI Stuart from The WoolPatch is making a window again like the Olympihens. This time it is a Jimmy Does Knitting pattern, Chianti Cardi. He is going to make a Christmas tree with the sweater covered bottles. Lovely yarn haul! I love the Lagoon green especially. I am curious. Have you rated a yarn 5? Love to know at least one! My friend from Peru gets knitted gifts from her mother in law who still lives in Peru. She doesn't like the feel of alpaca so lucky me gets what she doesn't like! I'm afraid if I get anymore yarn, my daughter will have me committed!!! Lol! Hank is so lucky! Yes Gary, you do have a new fav! See you next time!
LOL (regarding "Young Lovers"). Stuart's window makes are always so inspiring!
Lucky for you that your friend gifts you the yummy yarns she doesn't use.
Better than that! I get the garment made up not yarn! Neither of them knit!
Hi your yarns are very pretty I’m allergic to wool it’s a shame because wool has some beautiful colors of yarns
Hello Paula - We are lucky that a lot of acrylics are so wonderful and diverse (wool-like), with colours to die for.
Yes that’s so true
Hi Gary. I loved your video today as wool warehouse is a site where I can get my yarn without having to spend a fortune on shipping. Anyways I was thinking if you think it's a good idea to show us and teach us which certain yarns work best with certain stitches as although I've been crocheting my whole life I admit I do find it hard to choose which stitches go best with the right yarn . So maybe you can help? And the way you mix yarn and colours are just perfect. Is that something you can teach us to do ? Or is that something that a real artist can identify?
Hello Anna! Thank you for the sweet message - I'm humbled.
I do hope I capture what goes on in my creative process in these videos for you to take away something that helps you. Talking about projects I've done (or am doing) showcases choices of yarn with stitches (patterns). It's always wonderful to see a make in the works or finished to help answer the types of questions you are looking for. Keep playing with yarn - don't be afraid to try new things and colour is such a person expression.
New subscriber here from `England. Trying to place your accent - to me it sounds like an Englishman who swerved round Australia and ended up in Canada? 😂 Yarn is delicious!
Welcome Lynne! I'm glad you introduced yourself.
I chuckled at the breakdown to your reasoning. I was born in Australia and moved to Canada - so mostly you guess right!
1st time to reply but recimmened by Crystal. Have been trying toget acquainted with new yarns since most of stash is RSS and similar yarns.yarn in the usual stores is disappointing so have gotten some mystery boxes and ordered from internet.i am not comfortable with the new yarns especially the vbulkier ones.dont like working writh woolbut the colors you showed were. Beautiful
Hello Diane. I'm happy that you commented and let me know how you found me. We love Crystal!
One of the things I do when I want to try something new is wait for a sale and throw one or two new balls in a purchase. That way I'm not out much if I don't like it - or alternatively I can get more if it's a new favourite.
@@urbanyarn of course I learned about you from her plus you just showed up on my phone one day.like your different perspective
Interesting colours but I will stick to Merino and cotton. Not keen on acrylic.
What is a modular project? Do not know this term.
Hello Cecilia - modular project are smaller items (shapes) that are joined together to make a larger project. Similarly multiple granny squares joined together is a modular project.
@urbanyarn thank you. I really did not know.
Put away my yarn and projects until the sad disappears.
Sending well wishes for better times - they're just around the corner.
Ok all that time to get to 100% plastic. Good grief.
...but it's so lovely (colours and feel).
Wool Warehouse is the only online place I shop now. I have loved all the Yarnsmith yarns I've tried, it's their own house brand and very affordable. I'm in the US and shipping is either free of $6, not bad at all 🧶
Wow! That's the way to go! In Canada the shipping to a bit more expensive to get the Wool Warehouse yarns - but if the sales are good that does make up for it,