Skint Skeins – the yarns on offer

by | Feb 7, 2022 | free patterns and yarn

I’d like to say a huge thanks to Laxtons for sending us the yarns which make up this batch of skint skeins.

What’s a skint skein? It’s yarn that’s available free to anyone who can’t afford to buy hand dyed yarn right now. Sometimes being skint is temporary, sometimes it’s gone on for years and there’s no end in sight.

Who can apply? Anyone who feels they qualify. The only restriction for now is of you’re one of the 150 people who got yarn in the last batch of skint skeins please don’t apply again. We’re happy to ship worldwide.

Can you apply for someone else? No. Please let them know we’re running this and then, if they want to, they can apply for themselves.

How do you apply? First have a browse through the skeins which are available and decide what you’d like most. Underneath the images is a link to a form which asks for your name, email, address and top 5 picks in order. We’ll also ask if you’d be happy with a random skein if you don’t get any of your five choices or if you’d prefer to wait – we’ll run skint skeins again later in the year.

We’ll take applications until midnight on Friday 18th February – then we’ll do our best to give as many people as possible the yarn they’d like.

How much yarn can you have? For now we’re going to say one skein – the last batch of skein skeins generated over 1000 requests and I’d sooner more people got some yarn than a few people got lots.

So – onto the yarns.

All of the skeins are 100 grams.

I’m not 100% sure what the yarns are – some are discontinued yarns or samples, so I’ve given meters per 100 grams, said if the yarn is plied or a single and said if I think it has silk in it. I’ve also mentioned if yarns are high twist as these will be suitable for socks. The batch numbers go from thickest to thinnest yarns and the skeins shown in the picture are all of that batch – so there’s only one of some yarns and more of others.

One skein of green yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 1 – plied green yarn, 175m per 100g
One skein of green yarn for skint skeins, singles
Batch 2 – singles green yarn, 200m per 100g
Three skeins of blue yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 3 – plied blue yarn, 205m per 100g
One skein of green yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 4 – plied green yarn, 210m per 100g
Three skeins of purple yarn for skint skeins, singles
Batch 5 – purple singles yarn, 210m per 100g
Two skeins of silky mocha yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 6 – plied mocha yarn, contains silk, 240m per 100g skein
Five skeins of silky turquoise yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 7 – plied turquoise yarn, contains silk, 240m per 100g skein
Six skeins of silky lilac yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 8 – plied purple yarn, contains silk, 240m per 100g skein
Two skeins of red yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 9 – plied red yarn, 250m per 100g skein
Five skeins of copper yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 10 – plied copper yarn, 385m per 100g skein
Skein of green yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 11 – plied green yarn, 385m per 100g skein
five skeins of silver yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 12 – plied silver yarn, 390m per 100g skein
five skeins of grellow yarn for skint skeins, plied
Batch 13 – plied grellow yarn, 390m per 100g skein
four skeins of bright pink yarn for skint skeins, high twist
Batch 14 – plied pink yarn, high twist 400m per 100g skein
four skeins of clue yarn for skint skeins, high twist
Batch 15 – plied blue yarn, high twist 400m per 100g skein
skein of pale green yarn for skint skeins, high twist
Batch 16 – plied green yarn, high twist 400m per 100g skein
skein of green yarn for skint skeins, high twist
Batch 17 – plied green yarn, high twist 400m per 100g skein
skein of lilac yarn wool and solk for skint skeins, singles
Batch 18 – singles lilac yarn, contains silk 450m per 100g skein
skein of lilac yarn for skint skeins, singles
Batch 19 – singles lilac yarn, 800m per 100g skein

That’s it – lots and lots of yarn.

If you can share this post that would be brilliant – it means that as many people see it and get a chance to apply for a skein if it’s something they’d like.

Ready to apply? Pick your five favourite yarns and click the link below. Leaving a comment doesn’t work for this – so please fill in the form to apply.

Apply here – make sure you know which yarn you want