Toodetud eestís.

My "when you finish your papers, you can knit with this yarn" yarn came today. There's a particular Estonian shawl I wish to knit from it, so I thought to myself, "My my. Wouldn't this be neat if I were to knit it in Estonian yarn?" "Yes," I told myself, and proceeded to search for said yarn online. I came up with a yarn called Evilla, which, according to the website, is made of wool gathered from Sweden, Finland, and Estonia. It's spun so as to preserve the lanolin, which will certainly be nice for knitting.

Anyway, the yarn is sitting here in front of me and I give it my amateur lace test. First I look it over and I notice thick and thin spots. I am intrigued. Is this handspun? If so, I love it all the more. Second I pet it. It's a little coarse, but nothing out of line for pure wool. Nothing pull out an individual strand and give it a gentle tug. Nice and strong. So far, so good. I'm not allowed to knit with it for the reason mentioned in the opening sentence, but nobody made any rules about thinking about it.

I have two skeins, but there's no use in showing them both off since they look the same. Here's the larger one at 1,518 yards:



For the record, the smaller one is 1,419 yards. They're both huge.