The Tradition
Day 20 is called Weihnachtsmann and the tradition comes from Germany. Also known as Father Christmas, Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas and I am sure we all know about these guys as they are technically the same person, although depending where you are and the traditions of your country, he either visits on 6th December or 24th December. His attire has been portrayed in different shades throughout the years; one of those colours is green.
The Fibre
The actual fibre content is 80% Corriedale (Emerald, Citrus, Grass, Lightning), 14% Merino, 6% Rainbow Trilobal Nylon. Father Christmas has been portrayed wearing different colours over the years. We know it as red but it has been blue, green and more earthy tones. This blend is taking it as green and earthy. This is a blend of Corriedale and Stellina because you don't need to use Merino all the time to get these lovely colours. So you've got lovely shades of white and green Corriedale and also some Corriedale Amber in there with some glitter going through it. This is a really springy blend, its quite soft and it is incredibly easy to spin, it is not too fine that will will run away with you and it will make a thin yarn but also a bulky one as well, if you want to that is. You can break it down the sides to get little sections of colour. This blend will do absolutely anything and it will make a really nice finished item.
My Thoughts
I quite like the earthy green, amber and browny tones in this blend. It's reasonably soft and I have no idea how I will be spinning this one. I could find a similar green or a white or something like that to spin this with or maybe I might see if I can do a Fibonacci spin with this, not sure if the colours will separate out enough though. Another option might be to spin from the fold to have little pops of colours all the way along the yarn. This will require some testing or thinking about and maybe seeing how others have spun it up and the results that they got. This is another one that is so different to how the camera on my phone captured the colours and at the time I couldn't get it to show the true tone of green and all the other colours, more could I get it to not show any turquoise blue, which is NOT in the blend in real life. At least my Canon camera has managed to capture all of the tones and colours.
The information that has been printed on the bags is not always correct and there are no fibre content percentages, these have been provided on the chat boards. The percentages that they gave on the chat boards seem to be incorrect, again! There isn't any Stellina in this one! They initially gave us 80% Corriedale (in shades of Emerald, Citrus, Grass & Lightning), 20% Glitzy Amber which itself is 70% Merino, 30% Rainbow Trilobal Nylon. If my maths are correct that makes the overall fibre content 80% Corriedale, 14% Merino, 6% Rainbow Trilobal Nylon.
What I have done with my bags is to write the actual fibre content on the bag using a gold gel pen in the gap immediately below the printed details, pretty much the only thing that will show up on black are the metallic gel pens. This is why I have not taken "new" photos of the bags.
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