links for 2010-10-09

Jared Flood explains the difference between "worsted" spun wool (the method, not the weight of the yarn) and "woolen" spun wool. Interesting to know the difference – and it makes a difference how the garment comes out when you knit, too.

OMFG YARN! This yarn makes me dead of awesome. Sadly, it is out of my price range. This yarn I cannot has.

Yes, I'm going to "literally" crush you with my gay (double) rainbow steamroller. Here I come.

Edith Wharton, from Beatrice Palmato, a prose fragment.

I love it when my favorite stuff gets all mixed up together. Fonts! Knitting! Knitting fonts!! Yay!