Mission Falls is dead, and it has only taken me two weeks to hear the news.
I am absolutely devastated.
There are two merino superwash lines — the 1824 worsted and the 136 sport weight — and I love them both. The colors have always been rich and even; the yarn’s a pleasure to work with. My hands never came away from a project blotchy from the wool or tinged from the dye. Mission Falls put out a quality product, one I’ve picked over Cascade or Knit Picks time and time again. I have a dozen stray skeins floating around in my stash and I’m debating hitting up the local yarn store in disguise and buying them out of their stock. God only knows when I’ll want to knit a modern log cabin afghan big enough to cover my bed — and when that day comes, the only yarn that would do in a pinch would be Mission Falls.
There are other beautiful yarns out there. There are other reasonably priced yarns out there. There are other merino superwash yarns out there. No doubt I will run across a beautiful, reasonably priced merino superwash. I’ll probably run across it sooner, rather than later.
But I’m bummed out now.
Godspeed, Mission Falls. You were good to me.
January 17th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
I’ve had some Mission Falls 1824 in my stash for a a few years now and didn’t actually starting knitting with it until I heard they were going out of business. Don’t want to have to scramble for yarn after all. If only I didn’t really, really like it. It’s not squeaky at all.