I need more of a yarn I bought at a 100-yen shop in Tokyo
October 29, 2018 7:23 PM Subscribe
I bought a few balls of different colors at a 100-yen shop in Tokyo, this Can Do store in Shibuya to be specific, and I found a pattern that I thought would serve me well, but I'm running out of my main color and can't figure out how, if at all, to get more of this yarn in the states. Help!
Here are pictures of the yarn and the label. On the label you can see on the "back" where it says "Col No. 3." This is the color number, and I've removed all the labels from the ball and don't remember which goes with which color. The color I'm running out of is the dark blue. The website I can find for the store doesn't give me much hope about getting it in the states, but basically I'm hoping someone out there can read enough Japanese to let me know if there's a way to order it online, or if it's the same yarn that's carried in another store under another name.
Alternatively, if you know of a yarn that would be a good enough replacement I'd love to see your recommendations, the tweed might complicate things though. I picked them out because the tweed all matches the other colors, so the blue has flecks of red and green and yellow in it. I've also thought about trying to finish out the top of the pattern with my other colors, but can't figure out how to do that without it looking terribly hodge podge. The pattern is siksak on ravelry. The big stretch of red in the middle will be hidden when I fold the ribbing in half to make a brim. In the colorwork section, my three stripes will be red, yellow, then green. I could make the stripe of "main color" between the yellow and green stripes red, and then make the top red. Or just knit the pattern til I run out of blue and have a "dot" of red or green as the top few rows...
Here are pictures of the yarn and the label. On the label you can see on the "back" where it says "Col No. 3." This is the color number, and I've removed all the labels from the ball and don't remember which goes with which color. The color I'm running out of is the dark blue. The website I can find for the store doesn't give me much hope about getting it in the states, but basically I'm hoping someone out there can read enough Japanese to let me know if there's a way to order it online, or if it's the same yarn that's carried in another store under another name.
Alternatively, if you know of a yarn that would be a good enough replacement I'd love to see your recommendations, the tweed might complicate things though. I picked them out because the tweed all matches the other colors, so the blue has flecks of red and green and yellow in it. I've also thought about trying to finish out the top of the pattern with my other colors, but can't figure out how to do that without it looking terribly hodge podge. The pattern is siksak on ravelry. The big stretch of red in the middle will be hidden when I fold the ribbing in half to make a brim. In the colorwork section, my three stripes will be red, yellow, then green. I could make the stripe of "main color" between the yellow and green stripes red, and then make the top red. Or just knit the pattern til I run out of blue and have a "dot" of red or green as the top few rows...
You could check ravelry.com and see if anyone has that yarn/color/dye lot for sale from their stash.
posted by heatherlogan at 8:14 PM on October 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by heatherlogan at 8:14 PM on October 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
Best answer: I live in Japan and also knit; let me do some research. I'd be happy to ship some over if I find it!
posted by lesser weasel at 9:57 PM on October 29, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by lesser weasel at 9:57 PM on October 29, 2018 [6 favorites]
Best answer: City Tweed DK looks like it could be a good replacement.
posted by third word on a random page at 10:12 PM on October 29, 2018
posted by third word on a random page at 10:12 PM on October 29, 2018
Best answer: Okay, it looks like that specific yarn was manufactured to be sold in 100 yen shops specifically, and as such I'm not finding any online stores to buy it from, including the maker's. There's two CanDo stores on the way home for me if you'd like me to stop in and check; otherwise I could call the Shibuya store and see if they have any still?
Shibuya's not too far from me but I'm trying to avoid the Halloween crowd... so might be a few days before I can get over there.
Let me know!
posted by lesser weasel at 10:18 PM on October 29, 2018 [11 favorites]
Shibuya's not too far from me but I'm trying to avoid the Halloween crowd... so might be a few days before I can get over there.
Let me know!
posted by lesser weasel at 10:18 PM on October 29, 2018 [11 favorites]
Response by poster: Wow! I'd be delighted if you'd check and see if they still have it, but it seems like a ton of work to ask you to ship it over to me! Don't feel rushed to do it before Halloween, I can certainly wait a few days. Thanks lesser weasel!
I'm frustrated because I had a neighbor go to Tokyo a month ago who certainly would've brought some home if I'd asked but I wasn't far enough along with the hat to realize I'd run out....
jacquilynne, I thought about continuing to work the pattern as far as I could. If I make a 4th bordered stripe with blue in the middle then it's now kind of a rainbow hat which is fun, or I could just keep repeating the stripes through the decreases maybe? I'll have to look into it more. But that's an interesting idea, thanks.
posted by DynamiteToast at 7:08 AM on October 30, 2018
I'm frustrated because I had a neighbor go to Tokyo a month ago who certainly would've brought some home if I'd asked but I wasn't far enough along with the hat to realize I'd run out....
jacquilynne, I thought about continuing to work the pattern as far as I could. If I make a 4th bordered stripe with blue in the middle then it's now kind of a rainbow hat which is fun, or I could just keep repeating the stripes through the decreases maybe? I'll have to look into it more. But that's an interesting idea, thanks.
posted by DynamiteToast at 7:08 AM on October 30, 2018
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Or continue to work in pattern all the way up, depending on how the decreases are done and whether that would be some kind of nightmare or not.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:40 PM on October 29, 2018 [1 favorite]