YARN!

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My Favorite Online Yarn Shops

CONES
Custom Woolen Mills - Alberta Canada | Website | Phone: Phone: (403) 337-2221 | Email: info@customwoolenmills.com | Sells a variety of fibres including wool on cones.
Fischer Wool / Anna Fischer - Canada | Website | Instagram | Email: fischerwool@gmail.com | Anna offers a variety of yarns in skeins and cones - email Anna to order and enquire.
Knitknackshop - USA | Website | Phone: 765-985-3164 | Email: kks@knitknackshop.com | For great inexpensive TAMM scrap yarn cone
Supergarne Woolverstand - Denmark | Website | Website link shows English site with US dollar currency. If having an issue accessing simply search “supergarne”.
Sign up for their newsletter! They often have sales. I tend to buy from this supplier as I live in CANADA. I generally buy the coned 4 ply yarn on the 400-400gram cones. They ship standard with DHL so for my own purchase I ensure I do a minimum four cone order to lower the cost per cone for my own peace of mind. With 2-4 day tracked shipping this makes this supplier (in my opinion) the least expensive cone supplier I know of**. This supplier also offers balls of yarn in 100g skeins. (If you live in the United States you may find it easier to order from whatever selection Jamie Mayfield of csmsupplies.com offers). **Buying direct from Supergarne note: Besides having the most selection, on a recent June 2021 3x400g cone (14.99eur listed but $12.39eur charged) per three cones, plus 2-4 day $45eur shipping totals $82.17EUR/$126.30CAD+ $20.59cad duty/customs works out to $48.96CAD per cone (with 2-4 day tracked shipping).
Twisted and Tangled Fibre Studio - New Brunswick, Canada - Nancy Colpitts | Facebook sales group - Yarn In Stock | Facebook | Phone: +1 (506) 457-8779 | Email: twistedandtangledfibrestudio@gmail.com | Supplier of Yeoman Yarns, Hand Spun Yarns, Hand Dyed Yarns, Yarn on Cones for Machine Knitting and Weaving. To order goto FB group and view the yarn in stock photo album of currently available cones message Nancy to order.
NON-CONES FAVOURITE YARNS
Hobbii - | Website | Instagram | Specifically their Lucky Bags of Sock Yarn. They now have a point reward system.
Impossible Knot Yarn Shop | A beautiful local yarn shop to my boyfriend’s parents (who live quite far from us). I love Andie’s APN - All points North yarn. Although she has Etsy, I order through her website | Website | Etsy | Instagram | Facebook | Email: impossibleknotshop@gmail.com

*I vouch for the above listings as I have tried each (many times in some cases)*

Non-superwash natural yarns

Natural approach Mill Spun Fiber

Custom Woolen Mills - Alberta Canada | Website | Phone: Phone: (403) 337-2221 | Email: info@customwoolenmills.com
Green County Wool | Website | Etsy | Instagram | Email: cydney@greenecountywool.com | They spin the fiber of their own Romeldale sheep. Utterly gorgeous 2 ply fiber-plans for a more robust 3 ply in the future. Email to enquire. See my Instagram post.

Sweet Tree Wool Farm - Virgina, USA - Kat & Kevin Oliver | Facebook | Website | Instagram | Blog |

SCRAP YARN

USEFUL TIP: Buying cones of acrylic online often it can be confusing when it’s named as a fraction. With the different yarn properties the fractions will differ for what will work on the machine but in terms of acrylic fibre:

Lana Chévez 2/12 or 3/15 would be near sock yarn wright.

2/24 or 2/30 for finer fabric.

IN TERMS OF WHERE…

Generally as someone living in Canada I find it sometimes cheaper to get my scrap sock weight acrylic cones off eBay, usually by searching for “Tamm” or “bramwell” - just don’t get the “super fine” acrylic as it’s pretty thin (unless you want that or will pair it with a other fibre). Other same/similar suppliers of these are:

Erlbacher - USA| Website | Email to order if not in the United States or International.

CSM Supplies - USA | Website | Email to order if not in the United States or International.

The Yarn Guy - Toronto, Ontario | Facebook | Website |

Lycra

TK Fibres and More (J Elliot) - Ontario Canada | Website | Email to order: tkfibre@gmail.com | We sell it for; 2oz for $10. We carry grey, blue, green and red.
Erlbacher in United States | Website | Non-USA orders need to be emailed.
Jackie Lee in the United States on etsy
Jamie Mayfield in United States | Website | Email to order if not in the United States or International.
Uppingham Yarns in the UK
Minerva ~ UK | Website |
Wools.co in the UK
Yarn on Cone - UK | Website |
Yeoman in the UK

What is Cobweb Lycra
Commercial sock maker mentions using elastine - Bridgedale Socks - the process of production

Understanding Yarn Weights with the different references used in terms of yarn thickness

Yarn

A to Z Alpaca Products - AB Canada | Website |

Ancient Arts Yarn - Calgary Canada | Website |

BSK - UK | Website |

Camelot Haven - Vernon, BC Canada | Website |

Cindy’s Knitting Room - USA | Website | Email: cindyschmatz@gmail.com | coned Tamm yarn and more.

Colour Mart - UK | Website |

Country Knitting of Maine - USA | Website | Email: oth98@hotmail.com | Phone: (207) 696-5418 |

Cricket Cove - NB Canada | Website | Skeins and balls of yarn only. No cones.

Crochet & Co - Zoe - QC Canada | Website | Instagram | Facebook | Pre-order Shetland wool cones CAD$70/500grams

CSM Supplies - Jamie Mayfield USA | Sells a variety of items including Supergarne Aktiv cone yarn and scrap yarn.

Custom Woolen Mills - AB Canada | Website | Phone: Phone: (403) 337-2221 | Email: info@customwoolenmills.com

Denier Studio - England | Website |

Ewesful creations - Jude Pilote - Chilliwack Canada | Website | Instagram | Email: judespins@shaw.ca

Hand Dyed Sock Yarn (Etsy) - Gerard and Shirley Walsh - USA | Etsy |

Laughing Hens - UK | Website | 1 KG cone of undyed superwash merino |

Little Knits - Seattle, WA USA | Website | found a variety of skeins and some bulky weight coned yarn.

Maurice Brassard - QC Canada | Website | Tel: 819-362-2408 | email: info@mbrassard.com

Michaels Crafts | An inexpensive yarn supplier - I used to purchase single balls of LIONS BRAND “Sock Ease” Reg CAD$12.99 with 40-50% off coupons. Update: 2022 - I haven’t found this store sells this yarn anymore so I don’t bother going there now.

Mitzies Yarn for Weavers and Knitters | Website | Cell: (208) 340-9775 | warpedweaver@hotmail.com | I emailed to ask which cones would be recommended for machine knitters - I then asked for yarns that were considered light fingering to fingering weight. No reply.

Okanagan Dye Works - Nikki Marshall - Vernon, BC | Website | Instagram | Email: nikki@okanagandyeworks.com

Pacaknits - USA | Tamm coned yarn |

Paradise Fibre - Spokane, Washington USA | Website | Phone: 509-536-7746 | Also has cones of yarn

Peter Patchis Yarns - USA | Website | Phone: 401-723-3116 | Email: peterpatchisyarns@yahoo.com |

Puzzle Tree Yarns - Becca - Vancouver, BC Canada | Website | Instagram | Linktree | Email: puzzletreeyarns@gmail.com

Rennie Yarns - UK | Website |

River City Yarns - Edmonton, AB Canada | Website |

Romni Wools - Toronto, Canada | Website |

South Hampton Scrapstore - UK | Website |

Uppingham Yarn - UK | Website |

Viridian Yarn - UK | Facebook | A wholesaler located which a minimum 6 cones of Opal of the same color can be ordered for £49.00 each + tax/shipping This might be less if VAT not charged to North American customers.

Woodland Quiltworks - USA | Website | Tamm coned yarn

Woolstack - UK | Website |

Wool Warehouse - UK | Website |

Wooly Knit - UK | Website | cones and other items. Royal Mail disruption means no international shipping at this time.

Yarn Canada - Canada | Website | Facebook | Instagram | Email: service@yarncanada.ca

The Yarn Depot - USA | Website | Email: leslie@mackellar.com | 2/24 acrylic coned yarn

The Yarn Guy - Toronto, Ontario Canada | Facebook | Website |

Yarn On Cone - UK | Website |

Yarn Undyed - UK | Webite | Coned undyed merino blend yarn (half the cost of Laughing Hens) | Deluxe coned yarn on cone

Yeoman Yarns - UK | Website |

Great Canadian yarn dyer list

Canadian Yarn Mills & Handspun Suppliers

Melly Knits - Surrey, BC (Melissa Goulet) | Website | Instagram | Facebook |

Yarn to dye

Artigina | Website | Located in Quebec Canada

Nomad | Website | Located in the US.

WOOL SOCKS ARE SUPERIOR

Linder Socks on Instagram explains why wool socks are better than cotton on cold or hot days

Have a supplier to recommend or add? Please email me at karenramel@yahoo.com :)

I am in no way an expert in deciphering yarn thickness fractions when it comes to buying yarn. Honestly anyone else can help you more with this. However I am trying. Here’s what I’ve been advised:

2/28 is thinner. Approx 3 strands for a 72 or 80 cylinder sock.
2/20 is New Metric. Sock wool is normally 2/8.4. To understand you convert to a 1/ figure. Then it tells you how many kilometres of yarn you have per kilogram. Sock wool becomes 1/4.2 meaning 420m per 100g.

The above was kind info from Eric Sharp. Thank you!

Not finding the yarn you prefer? See the website for recommended yarn substitution https://yarnsub.com/yarns

You probably know more on this than I do but I saw and wanted to share

Myth: All wool is scratchy and uncomfortable.

Fact: Different types of wool (and treatment of that wool) have differing amounts of scratchiness. Here’s a scan of different fibers using a microscope. Wool is made from the hair of sheep. This hair has scales on the surface of the fiber. The size of these scales is different for different breeds of sheep. Smaller scales are less scratchy. Larger scales are more scratchy.

Wool which is carded (hairs pulled in opposite directions) will be scratchier than wool which is combed (hairs all aligned in the same direction).

Coincidentally these scales are also the reason wool is more prone to shrinking in the wash. Carded wool (with the scales in opposite directions) will shrink more readily than combed wool

Surface applications (conditioners and sizing) can also fill the gulfs between the scales to help wool to feel less scratchy. Keep in mind these surface applications will probably be stripped off the more the wool is washed.

Mohair has very small scales. Cashmere, which is actually goat hair, and Alpaca also have very small scales.

Also, if you are allergic to wool (or lanolin) I've been told that alpaca is a good alternative.

Yarn weight system