Info Org: Finding Aid - Yarn Stash

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Finding Aid – Yarn Stash

Nora Ann Bennett

Nora Ann Bennett was a high school Chemistry teacher, and she is now the curriculum and testing coordinator at a large public high school in North Carolina. She enjoys knitting, crocheting, kayaking, hiking, baking, and traveling. She and her husband, Ken, hiked the entirety of the Long Trail, which is the vertical length of the state of Vermont, in July 2014. She wants to hike el Camino de Santiago for a major upcoming birthday.

Her “Yarn Stash” collection was recently acquired, donated to the university for the duration of their exhibition and collection: “Yarn and Knitting.”

Rules

1. The yarn can not be used for any purpose which would damage it or render it changed from its original format.
2. The yarn can be “checked-out,” but only to the Reading Room.
3. The yarn can not leave the Reading Room.
4. It is to be used to examine the different types of fibers, and the different weights of fibers.

Scope and Content

Theme: Yarn
Acquired over the course of more than 20 years of knitting.
Many types of yarn, in various fibers and weights.
There are completed projects as well as odds and ends.

Arrangement

The yarn is as is, arranged in boxes by fiber content. The yarn is in its original format. Some of the yarn is in the original, classically skeined balls, other in re-rolled center-pull balls, and still more in the original balls from the store or distributer.

Box 1: Wool (CEYK: 10101)

This box contains mostly sock-weight and shawl-weight yarns. There is a variety of washing instructions, with some being super-wash merino and others being much more fragile merino wools.

            Set 1: 10102: super-wash merino wools in fingering weights (Knit Picks)

                        mostly in grays, blues, greens, and mixes thereof.

            Set 2: 10103: lace-weight merino wools – hand wash wools (Knit Picks)

                        dark blues and one set of white and pale orange for a kid’s hat

            Set 3:10104: Sport weight wool yarn

                        stripped sock yarn, some unusual color combinations

                        German yarn, acquired in a grab-bag.

Box 2: Wool (CEYK: 10201)

This box contains mostly heavier, or sweater-, weight yarns. These wools were acquired through both shopping and gifts from family members

            Set 1: 10202: 1 partially completed knit sweater – cranberry

            Set 2: 10203: virgin wools in shades of grey.

Box 3: Cotton (CEYK: 10301)

This box contains large cones of cotton yarn, mostly from the company ‘Peaches and Cream.’ Most of the yarns are in pastel colors, but there are yarns in darker blues, greens, purples, grays, and mixes thereof.

            Set 1: 10302: project: colors to make a children’s watermelon hat(?) out of  soft cotton                                     yarn

Box 4: Cotton (CEYK: 10401)

Like Box 3, this box contains large cones of Peaches and Cream cotton yarn, but these cones are of the more used colors. These skeins are used to make kitchen washcloths and Christmas colored washcloths. There are also small 50gram balls of yarn in washcloth colors, as well as the remains of a few skeins, which could be combined into washcloths

            Set 1: 10402: Knit Picks cotton: “rainwater” cotton yarn: one taken-out and started over                                     again sweater

Box 5: Competed projects (CEYK: 10501)

This box is a mishmash of fibers and weight.

            Set 1: 10502: cotton washcloths of various colors and sizes

            Set 2: 10503: Pima cotton baby washcloths, in jewel colors

            Set 3: 10504: felted (wool) bag, in cream

            Set 4: 10505: cotton market bags, various colors and shapes

            Set 5: 10506: acrylic wine bottle holder, purple

            Set 6: 10507: scarves of various colors and fibers, mainly acrylic and cotton

            Set 7: 10508: cotton baby blanket in pastel colors.

            Set 8: 10509: acrylic bag in multicolored yarn

            Set 9: 10510: knit cap, black super-wash merino wool, khaki stripes at the bottom.

Box 6: Random odds and ends (CEYK: 10601)

This box contains the remains of various balls of acrylic yarns, in various colors, though the predominate colors are shades of green.

            Set 1: 10602: felted (wool) bag, in blue.

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