The Sweatshop of Love Blog

Back in April I did a yarn review for KB Sifa Silver Cotton yarn by Knit Outta The Box. To sum up, I loved it! You can snag the yarn at Knit Outta The Box, and it’s now available in a bunch of fun colors!

It’s a Wrap – Knot! Headband in Sifa Silver Cotton

And I designed this cute knot-front headband using the yarn, available at Knit Outta the Box. It’s a $4.99 download and uses one skein of the Sifa Silver Cotton. I think this would make an amazing gift for yourself or a knitting friend! Scoop the pattern and one skein of this beautiful yarn, put it in a cute bag and all your knitting friends would be so pumped!

Fun Textured Stitch

It’s a Wrap – Knot! Headband: Looking for the perfect transitional season headband – something with a lot of scalp coverage to protect from the sun but one that won’t hold in a lot of head heat? This headband is a fun combination of turban and front tying headscarf, with no worrying about the knot coming undone. Designed exclusively for us by Allyson Dykhuizen, owner of The Sweatshop of Love, this fun to knit headband takes only one ball of our Sifa Silver Cotton. Why not make one in every color!

Finished Size: One size fits most.

Yarn: Figgi Yarns Sifa Cotton and Real Silver – 1 skein. Or 82 yards of any DK weight yarn.

Needles: Size US 5 (3.75mm) straights.

Gauge: 22 stitches and 28 rows = 4 inches in stockinette st.

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Knitting + Internet = I get to meet amazing people doing amazing things. Laurie of Knit Outta the Box is one of those people! We ‘met’ on twitter because we are both huge Tigers fans, and our emails to each other often close with a ‘Go Tigers!’. The knitting connection is just a bonus.

KB Sifa Silver Cotton

So when Laurie asked me to review one of her new yarns I jumped at the chance, and a few days later a ball of KB Sifa Silver Cotton appeared on my doorstep.

KB Sifa Silver Cotton

From Knit Outta the Box: Silver has been known for centuries to possess healing qualities, as well as an anti-bacterial element. Sifa Silver Cotton yarn is spun with over 5% pure silver, is naturally colored and chain plied. When knit it creates beautiful stitch definition. Warm in winter and cool in summer, it is the perfect year round yarn.

100% pure Turkish cotton spun with over 5% pure silver. 50g (1.76 oz.), 70m (77 yds.). Gauge/24 st = 4″ US#5.

Sifa Silver Cotton is produced exclusively by KB Yarns in Turkey in collaboration with local spinners who possess a passion and deep-rooted knowledge for fiber, handed down through generations. Fair trade and fair labor practices apply to all products. Available in the US and Canada exclusively through Knit Outta the Box.

Sifa Silver Cotton - Knit Up

I spent a morning knitting with Sifa Silver Cotton and I don’t think I’ve knit with another yarn quite like it. You can see in the above pictures that it’s kind of braided together like a shoelace, and when I first pulled it out of it’s ball I didn’t think it was going to have a lot of give and might be hard to knit, like many straight cotton yarns.

But I cast on and knit a few rows in St st and it was surprisingly lovely! I used size 5s and got a very stiff fabric kind of like linen, and very soft to the touch. The yarn was easy to knit with and has just enough give so you aren’t struggling to get your stitches off and on the needle.

Ball in Progress

Immediately all my initial doubts were gone, and instead of wondering what I was going to do with this tiny ball of stiff yarn I started imagining all of the amazing things I could design for Sifa Silver Cotton exclusively. Knit Outta the Box has a growing pattern store with patterns using Sifa Silver Cotton for two pairs of slippers and a really cute twisted turban, but the possibilities are endless. It would be great for clutches, purses, headbands; a crazy wide variety of warm and cold weather accessories.

Pudge in on the Action

It’s even, apparently, cat approved, since I can’t have a photo shoot without Pudge getting in the way!

Be sure to stop over and say hi to Laurie at Knit Outta the Box, and follow her on twitter to find out about all of her fun products. You can order KB Sifa Silver Cotton at Knit Outta the Box.

And a huge thank you to Laurie for asking me to take a peek at this yarn!