Gails Yarns, Hooks & Needles

The beautiful organic cotton from Pakucho, via ecobutterfly, is on clearance, and marked down as far as I can mark it.

I have a swatch.

The Pakucho Organic Cotton is in the Moka Chocolate colorway. 100% Certified Organic Cotton, Sport Weight, 24 stitches and 36 rows to 4 inches with a 3.75 mm needle (US 5).

Left. Knit on size 4 KnitPicks circulars, 23.5 stitches to 4 inches, which is 5.875 stitches to the inch; the swatch measures 6.25 inches wide and 6 inches long, and has 37 stitches and 48 rows.

Right. Hand washed in Eucalan, it blocked out a bit larger than pre-blocking size, to 6 7/8” by 6”. It relaxed and squared up nicely. Gauge is now closer to 5 stitches per inch, which is a bit of a surprise.
The fabric is soft and supple; drapey, even. I’ve never blocked cotton before, and I’m pleased.

Currently I’m trying to knit a swatch with smaller size 3 needles, but it is heavy going. This cotton does not like the size three needles. Your mileage may vary! What I’m calling a size 3 is actually Kollage square 40″ circular needles. They measure as threes using any of my measuring devices.

Now that I have all these measurements and statistics, I am ready to try machine washing. Cold water first, then hot.

I’ve been thinking about the 10% discount, and what I think is, I will lower the amount to $60, which is four balls of yarn, at present. So 10% off orders over $60, and 15% off orders over $100.

No code to enter, nothing to remember, it will just show up as you check out. If it doesn’t, say so!

I’ll change again if and when I need to.

The only discount left that works is the “10% off orders over $100.”

I have decided to change that to “10% off all orders over $75,” and add “15% off orders over $100.”

It’s really the easiest way to accomplish a shipping discount.

All coupon codes expired last Friday, June 5. There will be more in the future! I am still having fun figuring out all the little behind the scenes things in this wonderful ClearCart storefront.

The 10% off all orders over $100 is a fixture, so that still works.

The Kauni Effektgarn prices are all set to $14.50. I am calling that a sale price, with the regular price as $15.00. A slight rise in price is indicated as the European bank has been charging a fair chunk to process the payment to Kauni.

Sale price is good until July 4th.

I sent coupons out to everybody who subscribed to my old store. I wanted to do that for a while but had no way through eBay, and coupons sent through the ProStore would not have worked in eBay check out.

All orders over $100 get 10% off, for everybody.