Sampler

I've been tossing around variations of this idea for ages, but I got a sudden impulse to just work up a sample (so to speak) over the weekend. I thought it would be nice for customers to be able to play around with the different yarns I dye before committing to larger projects, but at the same time, I couldn't resist the possiblity of doing a little more with it.

Here we have 10 yards of each of my wools and wool blends (I left off the super-luxury silk yarns for the time being) - merino in lace, fingering, sport, worsted, and aran; BFL in fingering, sport, and worsted, the three sock yarns (merino, BFL, cashmere-merino), merino-silk, Merino Whisper, and Cruiser:

I think I'd probably do 15 yds of each for the actual sample pack - a little more manageable, and would work out to a little over 100 gms of yarn in total.  Enough to swatch, fondle, play with, or.....

Make something.

 
What do you think?  Is there interest in something like this?  I think I'd price it around $25.  I could do mini skeins or mini balls (all labelled of course), though I think the mini balls are actually easier to handle on the receiving end. Although the concept of a feather and fan cowl is hardly original, the stitch does a fabulous job of mixing up varying colours and gauges, and I could include a wee pattern for this cowl version. Comments and/or further ideas would be gratefully received!

Comments

[Deb from Kingston]

I think you are on to something here. It's like dessert in a fancy restaurant- I always want to try more than one dessert-just a little wee piece-of say 4 different ones. This works! I think funky mittens might also be interesting, or maybe even a stripey hat. Cool

[Romelda McKee]

love it, love it, love it!! I love the idea of a sampler of yarns to fondle, enjoy AND a pattern to do something with the yarn samples.
Brilliant, where do I sign up!

[Miki]

I would definately buy a few, to make as gifts, totouch the yarn, great idea and the cowl is cute too.