The Tradition
Day 9 is called Julebord and the tradition comes from Norway and translates as "Christmas Table", also called Julefrokost in Denmark, Julbord in Sweden. This tradition is about feasting and drinking with friends and family. People gather and enjoy all of their favourite sweet and savoury traditional Christmas food. This can include lamb, spiced sausages, rice pudding, jam and mulled wine and also Akevitt, which is a distilled Scandinavian spirit that has been made since the 15th century and is distilled from grain or potatoes and flavoured with a variety of herbs.
The Fibre
The actual fibre content is 50% Superwash Merino (Syrup), 20% Soybean, 20% Milk Protein, 10% Tussah Silk (Kale). With this blend we have been very careful with what we've put in it because we wanted to mimic the sort of foods that you might have at a Juleboard so specifically we have a Superwash Merino which is named Syrup and we've got Soybean and, Milk fibre and then we have Tussah Silk in the colour of Kale. We wouldn't recommend eating all of these together by the way as it probably wouldn't taste very nice. We have a lovely bright yellow blend and this is immensely soft and the kale in this is very very pale blue green colour coming through it, which adds a nice bit of depth to this blend. This is very soft but unfortunately this will not work for felting. If you spin, crochet or weave this will work very well in everything that you do and you can also put it through the washing machine but only on a gentle wash. You can see the white of the Milk fibre and the Soybean in it. The Soybean is slightly more creamy and the Milk is a bright white. Merino in Syrup is the yellow and the Tussah Silk in kale is the green and that is a lovely blend and it really is so soft without being overly drapey. You find that sometimes if you put too much of a fibre, such as a Mulberry Silk into it the drape is so heavy it pulls the blend apart but the Merino does a really good job of holding everything together and giving it a really great handle.
My Thoughts
This is a really fine fly-away blend, there is Milk fibre and Soybean in this, which are cellulose based fibres and these are very much like the Tussah Silk, which is also in this and these fibres make up 50% of the blend with the other 50% being the Superwash Merino. This one is a lot brighter/bolder than how the camera on my phone captured the colours, which looked quite washed out. I think I will need to spin this quite slowly and carefully so that it doesn't clump up.
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 correct for this one.
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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