4 Ply & Sock
A&P Advent 2022
Last year we had a special request to make up an ‘advent add on’ for the winter club box and having enjoyed the festive wrapping we decided to dip our toes into the cosy world of advent calendars.
We were very excited and just a little bit nervous so we commissioned a painting from Lesley Buckingham (@bettybibfolk on Instagram) for our inspiration and we think she’s captured the cosy winter theme perfectly.
The calendar will be 24 colours with the option a full skein inspired by the picture. They will all be individually wrapped and numbered with packaging similar to the photo in the gallery. More a gift from a friend rather than commercial packaging so you can display them how you like and take a quite moment each day to sit down and unwrap your mini (or rip them all open on day one, we won’t judge!)
You will receive
24 x 20g on your chosen base with the option to add a 100g skein in the same base.
Each skein will be individually wrapped and numbered.
Plus a few extra surprises.
Postage: This is a pre-order. International orders will be posted tracked and or signed for (depending on country) in October. UK orders will be posted in early November. Please don’t order anything else with the advent as they will all be posted together.
Bases available:
Classic Sock: 100g/365m, 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon.
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Merino & Silk Single – 100g./400 m., 70% Superwash Merino, 30% Silk
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
A&P Alpaca & Silk 4 Ply
Soft and silky alpaca made even more silky with the addition of, well, silk. Alpaca is lighter and softer than wool and has a beautiful drape but lacks its elasticity. The silk adds strength and a gentle sheen to the yarn which makes the most beautiful shawls and scarves and is brilliant for lace work.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
Ball weight and length – 100g./400 m.
Fibre – 70% Alpaca, 30% Silk
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P BFL 4ply Masham
This yarn is dyed to order, select your colour and the yarn will be dyed for you and ready for postage within approximately ten days.
White Blue Faced Leicester wool blended with brown Masham to give a soft, 4 ply weight, slightly heathered yarn that is then hand dyed. Sourced from the UK and spun in Yorkshire this rustic yarn knits up in to a light and lofty fabric that is soft enough to be worn next to the skin.
Ball weight and length – 400 m./approx 100g
Fibre – 75% British BFL, 25% British Masham
Washing – Hand wash only using a mild detergent. This yarn is not super wash treated and will felt.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P BFL Rustic Sock
Beautiful soft British Blue Faced Leicester spun in Yorkshire. The high twist gives a durable yarn with great stitch definition. Very soft for wearing next to the skin so perfect for jumpers and accessories swell as socks. A hard wearing, pure wool sock yarn but it isn’t as tough as a yarn with a percentage of nylon.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
Ball weight and length – approx. 110g./385 m.
Fibre – 100% Blue Faced Leicester
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Classic Sock
A hand dyed 2 ply, fingering weight merino and nylon blend for beautifully soft and durable socks, hats and other accessories. This plump little yarn gives great stitch definition and takes up the colour brilliantly. From non mulesed merino.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
Ball weight and length – 100g./365 m.
Fibre – 80% super wash merino, 20% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Hand Dyed Sock Sets
Hand-dyed sock sets: a full skein of sock yarn with two complementary mini skeins for stripes, heels, toes or what ever else takes your fancy.
The base will appear when you select the set you like
Classic Sock: 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon.
Blue faced Leicester Smooth Sock: 100% superwash Blue Faced Leicester
A&P Merino & Kid Mohair Single 4 Ply
A blend of merino and kid mohair spun into a single strand that gives a warm, light fabric with a light sheen and a soft halo. Incredibly soft it can be knitted on larger needles than usual as the mohair fluff fills in the gaps. Ideal for garments and accessories.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
Ball weight and length – 100g./400 m.
Fibre – 56% Superwash Merino, 44% Kid Mohair
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Merino & Mohair Sock
A hand dyed four ply, fingering weight merino, kid mohair and nylon blend for beautifully soft and durable socks, hats and other accessories. This kid mohair gives the yarn a slight halo but the four tightly twisted plies give a smooth even stitch and gives great stitch definition. From non mulesed merino.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
Ball weight and length – 100g./400 m.
Fibre – 55% Superwash Merino Wool, 20% Kid Mohair, 25% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Merino & Silk Single
A single ply yarn in luxurious merino and silk hand dyed by us in small batches. The yarn is incredibly soft with a light lustre and is a fantastic choice for shawls and cowls the silk content giving it a beautiful drape.
Pattern suggestions
Shipping Forecast here
Cornish Thrift Top here
Cornish Thrift Shawl here
Ball weight and length – 100g./400 m.
Fibre – 70% Superwash Merino, 30% Silk
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
If you like a colour but there’s not enough in stock please contact us here for dye to order.
A&P Merino & Silk Single Set
Frosted Puff is three full, 100g skeins of our Merino & Silk Single in the neapolitan ice cream shades of Bark, Frosted and Puff with a 20g mini in peachy orange. The yarn is incredibly soft with a light lustre and is a fantastic choice for shawls and cowls the silk content giving it a beautiful drape.
Ball weight and length – 3 x100g./400 m. + 20g/80m
Fibre – 70% Superwash Merino, 30% Silk
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Seraph Mitt Kits
The colour work pattern is charted.
Contents: Printed pattern with charted fair isle, 4 balls of Jamieson & Smith 2 ply jumper weight
Ball weight and length – 25g./115 m/125 yds
Fibre – 100% Real Shetland Wool
Hand wash – Hand wash using a mild detergent.
A&P Winter Berries Classic Sock Mini Skeins
Hand dyed little skeins of our Classic Sock. The same soft, high twist yarn in dinky 20g skeins giving you five colours to play with. For small projects, contrasting heels and toes, borders or stripes, what ever takes your fancy or you could try our Lewes mitten pattern.
Ball weight and length – Total approx. 100g./365 m (5x20g./73m)
Recommended needle – 2.25mm
Fibre – 80% Superwash merino, 20% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Winter Berries Sock Set
Hand-dyed sock sets: a full skein of sock yarn with two complementary mini skeins for stripes, heels, toes or what ever else takes your fancy.
It also comes with a copy of
Classic Sock – 100g./365 m. + 20g/73m
Fibre – 80% super wash merino, 20% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
A&P Winter Storm Classic Sock Mini Skeins
Hand dyed little skeins of our Classic Sock. The same soft, high twist yarn in dinky 20g skeins giving you five colours to play with. For small projects, contrasting heels and toes, borders or stripes, what ever takes your fancy or you could try our Lewes mitten pattern.
Ball weight and length – Total approx. 100g./365 m (5x20g./73m)
Recommended needle – 2.25mm
Fibre – 80% Superwash merino, 20% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Ainsworth & Prin yarn is hand dyed in small batches. We try to achieve consistent colours but each skein is unique so when using more than one skein of a colour in a project we really recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows.
A&P Winter Storm Sock Set
Hand-dyed sock sets: a full skein of sock yarn with two complementary mini skeins for stripes, heels, toes or what ever else takes your fancy.
Classic Sock – 100g./365 m. + 20g/73m
Fibre – 80% super wash merino, 20% nylon
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
A&P Yarn Club
It’s time for our winter bumper club box and the theme this year is Into the Woods, think neutrals and earthy shades. As always there is a choice of two bases and the 100g skein comes with a pack of five coordinating minis. There will be two craft projects to decorate your home or give as gifts and a couple of seasonal surprises. As always you have on line access to project instructions and a seasonal recipe. Remember to keep the card enclosed with the box for the links to the pdfs.
Bases available:
Classic Sock: 100g/365m, 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon.
Washing – Machine washable on a gentle wool cycle using a mild detergent or hand wash.
Merino & Silk Single – 100g./400 m., 70% Superwash Merino, 30% Silk
Washing – Hand wash only using a gentle detergent.
Postal date: 21st November
Items ordered at the same time as the Club Box will be posted with the box on the 21st November.
The gallery picture show previous single box contents and the two bases together so that you can see how the yarns take the dyes. There’s also a blog post about the first one here
Concorde Hat Kit
The graphic patterning of this hat reminds us of the iconic silhouette of the passenger jet Concorde. Our Dad worked on the electronics so we would all dive outside to see it fly over in the 70s and 80s, like a Spitfire, you couldn’t mistake the sound of it.
The kit comes with enough of our hand dyed 4ply Blue Faced Leicester Masham yarn to make either size hat using either colour as the main.
The yarn is next to the skin soft with a slightly heathered look on the lighter colours and the charted pattern would make a perfect beginners colour work project.
Contains 2 x approx 30g skeins of Blue Faced Masham 4ply, a printed pattern and a packet of bulb pins.
Heath
A luxurious blend of non-muleised merino lambswool and mohair in a 4ply weight, single ply yarn. It has a rustic, homespun look but is next to the skin soft with tweedy nubs of colour giving it a great depth and richness. It makes light, hardwearing and warm accessories or jumpers with a gorgeous halo and is ideal for colour work. The yarn is spun with a light spinning oil and will bloom and soften on washing.
We really recommend that you sew in ends and wash all tension squares before measuring to get the true size and feel of the sample.
As a single ply yarn, to minimise twisting we recommend laying the skein over the back of a chair when winding into a ball – or you could coerce a friend.
Ball weight and length –approx 50g./200 m. 25g/100m
Recommended needle – 2.75mm-3.75mm
Fibre – 70% merino lambswool, 30% mohair
Washing – Hand wash only using a mild detergent. The yarn is spun with a light spinning oil which needs to be washed off.
Jamieson & Smith Shetland 2ply Jumper Weight
Classic Shetland wool in natural, solid and heathered colours from Jamieson and Smith. For traditional Fair Isle and vintage 4ply patterns and so much more. A woollen spun 2 ply yarn it produces a light but warm fabric and the colour range is fantastic, it blooms and softens with washing and is incredibly hard wearing. For crochet and knitting blankets, shawls, jumpers, mittens and hats the list is endless.
Ball weight and length – 25g./115 m/125 yds
Fibre – 100% Real Shetland Wool
Machine washable – Hand wash using a mild detergent.
Seraph Jumper Kit
Seraph is influenced by the rich colours used in the decoration of the Arts and Crafts Watt’s Chapel in Surrey. It uses eight shades of Jamieson & Smith’s 2ply Jumper Weight Shetland Wool and has contrast colour cast-ons and garter stitch edgings. Charted colour work.
Each kit contains the pattern and enough Jamieson & Smith 2 ply Jumper Weight to finish the selected size jumper when made to the correct tension.
Sizes:
1 (2: 3: 4: 5)
Finished Measurements: 85.5 (96: 106.5: 117.5: 128) cm / 33¾ (37¾: 42: 46¼: 50½)in.
Suggested ease 5-10cm/2-6 in.
Tension:
30 sts and 32 rounds and rows to 10cm over Chart patt using 3.25mm needles.
Needles and notions:
2.25mm/US 1 circular needles, 60cm-120cm long depending on size worked
3.25mm/US 3 circular needles, 60cm-120cm long depending on size worked, plus an extra needle for a three-needle cast off
2.5mm/US 1-2 circular needles, 40cm long for neckband.
Set of 2.25mm/US 1 double-pointed needles (DPNs) Set of 3.25mm/ US 3 double-pointed needles (DPNs), or your preferred needles for knitting small circumferences in the round.
Stitch markers
Waste yarn or 4 stitch holders
Skills: knitting in the round, knitting colour work flat, reading colour work charts, three needle cast off, seaming.
