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Bijou Basin Ranch Shangri-La Yarn Review & Giveaway

October 17, 2018 2 Comments

Yarn provided for review & giveaway by Bijou Basin Ranch. Opinions are my own.

Shangri-La is a yarn made with a lovely combination of yak and silk fibers, offering knitters and crocheters a treat to make with. Learn more and enter to win a skein of Bijou Basin Ranch's Shangri-La yarn to spoil your stash!
Yarn from Bijou Basin Ranch is a favorite around here. For this month’s review & giveaway, we’re taking a quick look at their Shangri-La yarn, a 50% yak / 50% silk beauty that’s one of those yarns you use for just the right special project. Specifically today, we’ve got a beautiful skein dyed as part of Bijou Basin Ranch’s indie dyer collaborations, this one by Colorful Eclectic. It’s called Quest, and it’s basically everything I could ever want in a yarn, color-wise. Primary colors, featuring a dominant red and interesting color-pooling. So good!

Shangri-La is a yarn made with a lovely combination of yak and silk fibers, offering knitters and crocheters a treat to make with. Learn more and enter to win a skein of Bijou Basin Ranch's Shangri-La yarn to spoil your stash!
Shangri-La is a yarn made with a lovely combination of yak and silk fibers, offering knitters and crocheters a treat to make with. Learn more and enter to win a skein of Bijou Basin Ranch's Shangri-La yarn to spoil your stash!

The Yarn: Bijou Basin Ranch’s Shangri-La

Colorway pictured: Quest (part of the Colorful Eclectic line)
Skein details:
400 yd / 2 oz  (365m / 56g) skeins  /  50% Tibetan Yak  / 50% Mulberry Silk
Knitting needles: US 1, 2.25 mm / 28 stitches & 34 rows over 4 inches (10 cm)
Crochet hook: US 00 / 30 sc & 38 rows over 4 inches (10 cm)
Cons: If you don’t like laceweight yarn, this one’s probably not for you.
Pros: The combination of surprisingly lightweight yak fiber with silk gives you something particularly lush to knit with  – a real treat!
Pattern Ideas: Last year’s Read Along Knit Along featured The Scarf of Dreams, which has a lot of great lace action that would be fun to work in this yarn. Crocheters might enjoy holding this yarn double with some favorite stash scraps to make the Scrap Scallops Scarf.

Shangri-La is a yarn made with a lovely combination of yak and silk fibers, offering knitters and crocheters a treat to make with. Learn more and enter to win a skein of Bijou Basin Ranch's Shangri-La yarn to spoil your stash!

Enter the Giveaway

Intrigued? Enter to win your choice of 1 skein of Shangri-La in in-stock colors! This yarn is pretty special, and the Colorful Eclectic colors are really impressive.

If you’re on mobile, you’ll need to click a button that takes you to the entry page. If you’re on the desktop site, you’re all good to go right here! Open to US only.

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Shangri-La is a yarn made with a lovely combination of yak and silk fibers, offering knitters and crocheters a treat to make with. Learn more and enter to win a skein of Bijou Basin Ranch's Shangri-La yarn to spoil your stash!
Yarn provided for review & giveaway by Bijou Basin Ranch. Opinions are my own.

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About Heidi

Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. Georgia

    October 18, 2018 at 3:43 am

    Thanks for the review and giveaway!

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  2. Patricia Stanczyc

    October 21, 2018 at 9:37 am

    I absolutely LOVE this yarn. Going to go take a look at it on Bison Bijou site. Beautiful!

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