A wonderful new book plopped through the letterbox yesterday, and I spent most of the evening trying to look interested in what was on TV while cooing over the book Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders, wondering if I would be able to get hold of one of the fab yarns they use that I haven't even heard of, and dreaming like they state in the book of just picking one skein up, because it would cost too much to knit jumper from!
well, I should have realised when the name 'Cartier' was mentioned that this particular yarn may be a little out of my price range...
This is an incredibly rare yarn, from an endangered species that lives at 18,000 ft in the Andes mountains, can only be sheared once every 2 years, gives only 1lb of fleece o which only half is usable, it is the softest most luxurious yarn in the world - it is Vicuna.
and here is the little fella...
And here is the yarn...as far as I can tell it only comes in the one natural colour
and the price???wait for it....
a snip at only $310.00 per 1oz ball.
is it wrong to still want some?
