The colors are great and I love the tweedy look. Twizzle has a great feel, and unlike many soft yarns, it didn’t seem too loosely spun. Through all the ripping back and re-casting on, the yarn kept its shape and didn’t pill or split. I cast on about 10 times, experimenting with different needles and stitch patterns until I could find the right tension and a stitch pattern simple enough to showcase the yarn but interesting enough to keep me from napping. Since it was so close to the holidays, I decided to try the yarn out by making a holiday gift – a crescent shawlette for my sister. I’m happy to say that both skeins wound up quickly and there were no tangles or knots in the yarn. It didn’t seem right to review a yarn without actually trying it out, so my first step was to wind the yarn. Swift Current, on the right, includes dark navy blues with deep purple, pink and green. According to the Mountain Colors website, Logan Berry, on the left, is a “20 Year Vintage Color” and includes reds, tangerine, and purple. The beautiful colors, which unfortunately, are not perfectly captured in this picture, are hand painted. Twizzle is very soft – a fiber content of 85% Merino wool and 15% silk will do that. I loved the look of this yarn so much that I had to snap a picture right away in the post office. Pride sock in self striping sock yarn from Whitebirch Fiber Arts Full Monty (generic vanilla sock with an eye of partridge heel) 80% Superwash Merino, 20% Nylon.Back in November, the folks at Mountain Colors Yarns sent me these two hanks of a new-to-me yarn, Twizzle, to play with. Monday, July 13, 7pm: BBTD Musical Theatre History: The 1940’s with Heather Kenyon Tuesday July 7, 7p: South Bay Cabaret: An evening of Sunshine with Bob Sunshine Wednesday Jul 1, 7:30p: Acting Workshop with Chris Reber Monday June 29, 7:30p – Behind the Curtain Discussion: Khalia Davis and Youth Theatre Initiatives SBMT E-Studio Events all located on the SBMT eStudio Facebook Group located here Updated list from Knitty with cancelled fiber events as well as links to vendors who we can support #Mountain colors twizzle foot full Kevin mentions his Black Boxy that he completed a while back.A cow with antlers atop a power line pole. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing. Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic. The article is a list or collection of articles or subjects meeting the criteria above.The subject is distinct amongst other similar ones.The subject might be found amusing, though serious.The subject is a notorious hoax, such as the Sokal affair or Mary Toft.The subject is well-documented for unexpected notoriety or an unplanned cult following at extreme levels, such as Ampelmännchen or All your base are belong to us.The subject is a clear anomaly-something that defies common sense, common expectations or common knowledge, such as Bir Tawil, Märket, Phineas Gage, Snow in Florida, etc.The subject is a highly unusual combination of concepts, such as cosmic latte, death from laughter, etc.The article is something a reasonable person would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia.If you wish to add an article to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: This definition is not precise or absolute some articles could still be considered unusual even if they do not fit these guidelines.Įach entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things.
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