YARN BASES
We have four main yarn bases:
Sock Toad 80/20 SW/Nylon 400 yds per 100 g
100% Toad 100% Superwash 400 yds per 100g
DK Toad 100% Superwash 231 yds per 100g
Sweater Toad 100% Superwash 181 yds per 100g
We also offer Hairy Toad for some colors. 74% Baby Suri Alpaca/26% Silk 328 yds per 50g. You can use the Hairy Toad instead of mohair, it’s super soft and silky.
Our fingering weight minis are 80/20 SW/Nylon and 82 yds per 20g and 75/25 SW/Nylon 46 yds per 10g. DK Weight minis are 100% SW 40 yds per 20g.
The Crafty Toads Blog
The Crafty Toads Podcast #404 - (not the error message) notes and links from the podcast
Today on the podcast, we chatted about our trip to Williamsburg VA for World Wide Knit in Public Day and our trunk show.
On Saturday, we visited Flying Needles Yarn
where we hung out with Susan and her staff and lots of customers who stopped by to knit in public with us. We chatted, we ate, we shopped! All around - it was such a wonderful time!
We were so inspired by Susan's yarn (Robin's Promise Yarn Co) and her samples that we got a few skeins to start something new. Helen is making the Comodo by Nicola Susan. She chose 4 skeins of pinks/purples to make it into a fade.
I chose yarn to make the Soldotna Crop using the following colors:
This is the sample that Susan had in her shop that made me fall in love!
You can see why I HAD to get yarn right away for it!
On Sunday, we drove to Woodbridge to visit the nephews before they left. On our way, we stopped in Occoquan, VA where we ran into the Hitchcock Paper Co and found some really cool papery things, including this awesome planner
by KatieDaisy called Wild Beauty
(which is not available in their online shop but is on Amazon which we linked to).
We also touched on Harry Potter and why we are no longer associating our yarn with the books. Also, we have changed the TriWizarding Tournament to Toad Hollow Summer Camp. We still have places for you to upload your pictures in progress and finishes both on Facebook and Ravelry.
We hope you guys have a great rest of the day. Go forth and create and we will see you on Friday - with progress on multiple projects.
Live Events This Weekend
Since we can’t be in Maryland in person this weekend, we will be having some live events on Zoom this Saturday and Sunday where we’ll be doing lots of yarn pairings. The schedule is as follows:
ALL TIMES ARE EST
Saturday at 10 AM - Shawls & Cowls (meeting ID - 987 8828 4119 password - 747305 )
Saturday at 4 PM - Sweaters (meeting ID - 921 9272 1536 password - 172261 )
Sunday at 10 AM - What to do with mini skeins? (meeting ID - 980 8925 7360 password - 437651 )
Sunday at 4 PM - Beginner and 1 skein projects (meeting ID - 975 0844 4857 password - 882848)
