Desperately seeking yarn

[kaberett]

In my LYS the other day, I made the mistake of picking up a single 50g ball of Patons Fairytale DK #6382, which in this incarnation of that shade number is the perfect colour for Bigger on the Inside... but a quarter of the total quantity required.

Unfortunately, Patons are currently in the middle of rebranding the Fairytale DK range, and (worse still) they've already reused that shade code (6382) to be, well, less a solid navy and more a variegated spotted pastel thing.

I can't find the thing I'm looking for anywhere. I think I don't even really care about dye lot (though, on a desperate long shot, this ball is lot 30995). I don't have any idea what else to do with it.

I would be a tiny pathetic grateful creature if anyone can:

• track down some more of this wretched yarn somewhere online (I've already turned to other people's google-fu elsewhere and had them not succeed any more than me), or
  
• dig some out of their stash in exchange for suitable remuneration, or
  
• ... suggest something else to do with 155m of navy DK...

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu. (Current project on the needles is Sooper Sekrit, after a fashion, as far as the Internet goes, but got admired a lot in public today and I look forward to sharing it with everyone soooooooooooon :D)

Comments

[rokeon]

Afraid I'm not going to be any help finding you more yarn, but this is an awesome pattern. Thanks for the link!

Maybe this knit tie? http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tie-6

[kaberett]

Glad you enjoyed the link, and thank you for the suggestion :-)

[kake]

If you haven't thought of this already: it might be worth setting up a search on eBay and getting it to email you when it finds matches.

[kaberett]

I hadn't, because I am scared of eBay and do not have an account there - so thank you, this suggestion is helpful! (I had only got as far as doing an extremely frustrating eBay search that turned up nothing of anything helpful.)

[rooibos]

Have you checked on Ravelry? If you have it listed in your stash, you can click through and see if anyone is willing to sell/trade for it.

[kaberett]

No, I haven't, because erm I am still not on Ravelry because my hands got bad about the time it launched and I failed to join in a strop >.> BUT CLEARLY NOW THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR ME TO JOIN

[synecdochic]

I clicked through to suggest precisely this! Many Ravelers are totally happy to sell or swap stuff they have in stash for the simple reason that knitters totally understand "I did not buy enough of this yarn five years ago".

[quartzpebble]

Ravelry is one of the things I *love* about the internet. I had 2 rows and a bindoff left to go on a lace shawl in yarn I'd bought 2 years ago that varied quite a bit by dyelot. Asked on Ravelry, found someone with that dyelot stashed, bought it, finished the shawl! I could probably dig up the community I posted in, too--I had better luck with that than with messaging random people.

[beachlass]

I'll stop in at the Spinrite store this morning and see if I can track down a ball for you.

[kaberett]

... you are magic incarnate. Thank you so, so much.

[kaberett]

(To be clear, I need three balls and will happily work out a way to pay you for them if you manage to find any!)

[beachlass]

I stopped by the Spinrite store today - they make Patons yarn in North America.

(And in the middle of writing that last sentence, I just checked your user info, and realized you are in the UK. which I think means someone else is making your patons yarn.)

Anyway, I asked about Fairytale DK - and it is discontinued. The women at the store think it's been discontinued for about 15 years here! She suggested Patons Astra as a yarn (acrylic) which would be the same weight as the Fairytale, but of course, not the same colourways. I saw a couple of good candidates for your pattern, some of which was a colourway just being discontinued.

Any other way I can be of help? I did take a picture of the discontinued blue, I can upload or email it, if you like.

Sorry I don't have better news!!