I hope you'll grab a cake of Roll With It Tweed (available now!) and give the Sherbert Stripes Tote a try when it's released!Īnd if all this sounds good but you want to get an even closer look at Red Heart Roll With It Tweed, watch for the Yarn Love debut coming to Moogly on July 3, 2019! And don't forget to enter to win 6 cakes of this beautiful yarn below - and enter all the other great giveaways happening on Moogly right now! Of course, I had to give it a try myself! I have come up with a gorgeous one cake pattern using the Modern Pastel colorway that will debut on July 12, 2019. And as I mentioned above, you can use it for many projects that call for medium weight yarn! Roll With It Tweed just debuted this year, but there are already several great free patterns available for it on Red. This gives it a unique look that's great for both apparel and accessories! There's a great range of colors, with something for everyone! Red Heart Roll With It Tweed is a special yarn that twists three separate strands together to create unique tweed-like fabrics. Also known as UK 10-12 ply, this is one of the most popular yarn weights so you can sub it in on thousands of pattern, both knit and crochet.Īnd because it's 100% acrylic, it's machine washable and dryable! Each center pull cake of Roll With It Tweed is 5.29oz (150g) and includes 311yds (285m). You can use Red Heart Roll With It Tweed for lots of patterns out there because it's a worsted, medium, or "4" weight. And you can win 6 cakes of Roll With It Tweed right here on Moogly!ĭisclaimer: This post was sponsored by Red Heart Yarn all opinions are my own. Jacki Lyden is the host of The Seams podcast, and The Seams, an occasional series on fashion as culture on NPR.Red Heart Roll With It Tweed is a contemporary new yarn that's full of color! It's so fun to work with and creates beautiful projects in both knit and crochet. Now that is a twist of the modern on Irish tweed! Because come evening he can turn his collar up, put his lapel across, run home keeping warm, and when he gets home, he can roll up his sleeves and help with the dishes." "As I keep saying to young people who come in, this isn't a jacket for an office dandy with a flower in his lapel," he says. But owner Tristan Donaghy says Studio Donegal is doing well, selling to clients, visitors and online, making an old-fashioned product. That's only a fraction of what a commercial house would make. Studio Donegal weaves roughly 10,000 meters of cloth a year. In a five-day week he can weave about 100 meters of cloth- enough for 45 jackets. He was making a pattern called American spiral - a brilliant red diamond on a grey background. Beside Heena is 24-year-old Kevin McGillicuddy, another weaver, whose uncle was a also handweaver. They worked under the power of an oil lamp." He died as a young man of a massive heart attack. I grew up sitting on the seat of me father, like. "It was the first thing I'd ever seen in me life, like. "The small town that I came from, there were six houses and eight handloom weavers," Heena says, while weaving a classic Herringbone tweed pattern. John Heena, who's in his 50s, hand-looms tweeds the way his ancestors did. Wooden looms don't look a lot different than they did hundreds of years ago. Visitors can buy them in a small gallery, or observe the weaving. I've got to produce beautiful things."Īnd they do- blankets, jackets, scarves, caps, for clients as far away as Germany and Japan. "I mean, if I produced old hard tweed, such as was produced a hundred years ago, there'd be no future. "Use your indigenous skills," Donaghy recalls saying. The company wanted to boost textile jobs in Donegal. When the Donaghy's took over the mill, hand-weaving had ceased altogether and jobs were scarce. The cottage industry in Ireland had largely disappeared by the mid-20th century and textile manufacturing plummeted, primarily because of globalization. "Irish wool would take the back off your legs," says Donaghy, whose father Kevin spent a lifetime in England in textiles before returning to Donegal. But the softest sheep's wool is merino or crossbred from Australia and South America. Studio Donegal still uses handspun yarn - a bit of it spun on Victorian spindles or old machinery is used for special blankets. Tweed is a color-flecked or tightly patterned woven wool yarn and an Irish and Scottish tradition. "Use your indigenous skills," Tristan Donaghy, co-owner and handweaver of Studio Donegal in Ireland.
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