http://www.blackberry-ridge.com/shrug.htm Here is the next thing I want to knit – and it would be all for me!!!! The problem is I can not afford the yarn this company sells for this project – $9-11/skein! Anyone have a good alternate choice for me? It’s a fingering weight project. 🙂
Ohh that’s pretty!
I know,I have the same problem:(
If I see anything in my travels,I’ll let you know!
Knitpicks.com is a great resource for quality yarns – they have a search tool where you can browse their selection by gauge.
It looks like their least expensive yarn (cotton) in the weight category you need would run you about $27, which is how much you’d pay for the $9 a skein yarn the shrug calls for (bigger skeins – 3 $9 skeins or 12 $2.29 skeins). If you wanted alpaca i’d be more expensive to buy knitpicks than it would to buy the handdyed version of the suggested yarn.
Actually, since you only have to buy 3 skeins of the suggested yarn (they have mega yardage) it looks like that yarn is going to be one of you least expensive options. Wool-Ease Sportweight might work, and is around $6 a skein (you’d only need 3, i think), as long as you don’t mind having a wool/acryllic blend. Which is sometimes nice, since you can wash it easily. 🙂
Whoo, long answer.
Oh ps – another good yarn resource is fuzzymabel.com – you can also search by yarn weight on their site, and they carry a bunch of different yarns and patterns.
How about KnitPicks Dye Your Own…a double project…cheap yarn/long yardage AND you get the fun of dyeing it! (koolaid is cheap and effective!) $3.49 for 440 yards. Or their new yarn Palette is fingering weight wool at $1.79 for 231 yards, so about $14 for your project. You could look at Elann too as sometimes they have really good deals, you just have to catch them.