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Posted by bienchat@hotmail.com on October 11, 2007, 2:43 pm
I was wondering- has anybody here used Alpaca yarn to make socks
with? I've used a lot of wool, and was wondering if Alpaca had
similar qualities, such as being water-repellent and holding in body
heat. Would Alpaca wear as well as wool? Has anyone tried it?
Thanks!
Marie and the cats
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Posted by hesira on October 11, 2007, 4:35 pm
Hi Marie,
I've not used it for socks, but I have made a sweater out of it. It's
REALLY warm. It pills a lot though, and feels pretty heavy. I don't
know how it would work with socks.
Hesira
wrote:
> I was wondering- has anybody here used Alpaca yarn to make socks
> with? I've used a lot of wool, and was wondering if Alpaca had
> similar qualities, such as being water-repellent and holding in body
> heat. Would Alpaca wear as well as wool? Has anyone tried it?
> Thanks!
> Marie and the cats
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Posted by YarnWright on October 11, 2007, 4:44 pm
bienchat@hotmail.com. . .
Marie,
I HAVE, but wouldn't recommend it.. the alpaca tends to 'grow/stretch' and
really, it's, unless you've GOT an alpaca, too expensive for socks that will
wear out....
JM2C,
Noreen
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Posted by Mary Fisher on October 12, 2007, 6:20 am
> bienchat@hotmail.com. . .
> Marie,
> I HAVE, but wouldn't recommend it.. the alpaca tends to 'grow/stretch' and
> really, it's, unless you've GOT an alpaca, too expensive for socks that
> will
> wear out....
> JM2C,
> Noreen
I didn't know that alpaca stretched, thanks for that.
Mary
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Posted by bienchat@hotmail.com on October 12, 2007, 7:36 am
Thanks everybody! I learned a lot from all of your input.
I was curious about the alpaca because the Super Joanns out here
has a new line of alpaca yarn that is on sale, and living in the
desert, it is hard to find pure wool. Didn't have time to order
anything on line. But I did get lucky and found some Galway at the
LYS so I bought a couple of balls of that to use.
Making my big son a pair of socks for his size 14 feet! Did NOT
want to use fine fingering weight yarn and size 2 needles for that!
He wants pure wool socks. Sigh....I also bought a spool of the
reinforcement thread that I used on the heel and toes of the first
sock which I almost finished today. That was actually pretty easy to
combine with the yarn and knit with. And it blends in so well, you
wouldn't even know it was there.
Thanks again everyone! Happy knitting!
Marie and the cats
>
>
> > bienc...@hotmail.com. . .
> > Marie,
> > I HAVE, but wouldn't recommend it.. the alpaca tends to 'grow/stretch' and
> > really, it's, unless you've GOT an alpaca, too expensive for socks that
> > will
> > wear out....
> > JM2C,
> > Noreen
>
> I didn't know that alpaca stretched, thanks for that.
>
> Mar
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