Posh Yarn Club

Some of you may recall that I got a Posh Yarn Random Club subscription for my Christmas present last year. I'm aware I've not really said much about it so far.  I showed off the first shipment  here and the finished item made from them here but was very remiss in posting the second batch of yarn, and have now received the third batch, so thought I'd show these later four off together. 

These two pink and purple beauties are both the Betsy yarn base, which is Blue Faced Leicester, Silk and Cashmere.  Lovely and squooshy and most likely destined to become shawls, probably patterns from my new favourite knitwear designer, Verybusymonkey.  The plain pink (which is not entirely plain, being hand dyed) is called Celebrate the Good Times and the variagated is called First Impressions. 

Then we have my latest and final shipment; two contrasing skeins.  Both are in the yarn base Hannah, which is Merino, Cashmere and nylon. And its super squooshy.  The dark one is called "100 lines", and the grey one is called "I can't stand the rain".  The latter being an ideal name for a yarn that is going to live in Yorkshire.  The grey has been immediately earmarked for one of my new Verybusymonkey patterns, the Coast Starlight shawl.  I am currently studying the pattern to try to work out if I can place beads on the edging since anything named after starlight should have sparkly bits on it in my view. 

I do love Posh Yarns.  The yarn bases are always of the highest quality and the dying is truly fabulous.  It is one of my favourite yarn companies to deal with too.  The owners of the company, Dee and Tony go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that everyone gets a superb service and Tony, who does the dying, has such skill with colour.  Mind you, Posh yarn is not easy to get.  There is a very unseemly scramble for yarn every Sunday night, and the yarn sells out within minutes (sometimes seconds, as I found to my cost when trying to snag a particularly luscious laceweight earlier this year).