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

[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!!