Newport Harbor© Alpaca & Merino Lambswool
Available in 24-yard skeins for $2.50 each (suggested retail).

Ocean drives, cottages and castles, sails and spinnakers, lobster, America's Cup Races, and a windmill to
sail past after a beautiful summer's day.  Sunsets, bicycling, warm fireside evenings, seagulls, a bridge, and
memories of ferry trips not really so long ago . . .Newport Harbor©.

Newport Harbor© needlework thread is 70% British Merino Lambswool and 30% South American

Alpaca.  When we decided to introduce this yarn, we were exploring several concepts for the development
of Felicity's Garden©, beyond the colors as they are presently known.  Our concept for Newport Harbor© is
that it is a blender for Felicity's Garden© that will put the stitcher in control.  Newport Harbor© is our twist on
unusual shading.  This is a yarn of hidden potential.  Close inspection will reveal a yarn of more colors 
than the palette of 12 initially suggests.  Each color of Newport Harbor© (except white, black and navy) is made up
of five colors of dye.  There are actually 48 colors of dye that have been used in this yarn.  Each color is
processed individually before being spun and twisted together.  Look closely and you will see the colors
contained within.  Newport Harbor© has the ability to interact with surrounding colors.

Newport Harbor© is also perfectly capable of standing on its own, and shows great beauty in so doing.  The
earthy colors in this line will lend themselves to many decorating themes.  Pieces worked exclusively in this
thread will reveal natural feelings of color expression.  The feeling of this yarn is that of woven blankets and
heathered sweaters, and adding this yarn to Felicity's Garden© with all the colors of that palette will expand
this small palette to surprising levels.

The size of Newport Harbor© adds to this thread's potential.  Newport Harbor© is approximately 1/2 the size
of a strand of Felicity's Garden©, which was very deliberate.  It can even be worked in basketweave with a
strand of Felicity's Garden© on #18 mesh needlepoint canvas without "packing."  The reason for this is the
excellence of spinning which makes these threads "self-accommodating."  This yarn is spun and dyed in the
United States.  The smaller Newport Harbor© thread does not produce a blending of equal proportion, which is
exactly what we wanted.  This is what makes the blending so interesting.  Newport Harbor©, when combined with a
similar color will produce subtle shading in your work.  The combination of Newport Harbor© with colors that are not
closely related in color density or shade, will produce tweeded colors with the resulting appearance of a woven
fabric from the Hebrides or Shetland Islands.

This thread was also selected for its binding ability to Felicity's Garden©, which makes it extremely easy with
which to stitch.  When Newport Harbor© is used as a blender with Felicity's Garden©, the result looks like an
entirely different yarn rather than simply the sum of its parts.  Now consider the possibilities when plied with
Felicity's Garden Duets©.

Click Here for Our Printable Information Sheet on Newport Harbor!

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Purchase a high-quality digital color card for Newport Harbor, printed on heavy gloss stock.
 Color cards are $5 each + $1.50 shipping & handling.
To order, call us at 1-800-847-6020, or use the link below.

Newport Harbor© Virtual Color Card
12 colors, 24 yards per skein.  Available in fine needlework stores everywhere!

This color card has been prepared through digital imaging.  We have taken every effort to verify that these
colors are being presented as accurately as possible, however, settings on your monitor may vary.

#18 Mesh Needlepoint Canvas.
One strand of Newport Harbor© alpaca thread combined with one strand of Felicity's Garden© silk and wool thread
will work almost all possibilities very successfully.  Newport on its own, two strands will give good coverage for
most stitches.

#13 & #14 Mesh Needlepoint Canvas.
Fiber according to stitches using a combination of something along the lines of above and below.

#12 Mesh Needlepoint Canvas.
Two strands of Newport Harbor© and one strand of Felicity's Garden©, one Newport Harbor© and two strands of
Felicity's Garden© will work most stitches for blending  To work Newport on its own, three strands will work
most stitches.

For Your Information. . .
Neither our manufacturer nor Rosebud's Studio can be held responsible for color fastness if yarn is immersed
in water.  We recommend testing your yarn prior to stitching.  If wet-blocking is planned, our yarn is said to be
by our manufacturer "permanent color fast," but it is not impossible with the strict regulations imposed by the EPA
on dying chemicals, that a color that is not fast could slip through.  Our observations in testing this yarn and the
confidence of our manufacturer tell us there should be no problem with this yarn.  With stitching today including all
the fibers that it does, one would want to take precautions in advance of work being done, and washing would never be recommended.  Textile work should be handled and displayed with respect.  As always, fibers and
fine needlework should be kept out of direct sunlight.  Always plan enough yarn for projects as dye lots can change.
And after all that; for the safest bet, assume that all yarns have the ability through the knotted hank dying process
to have the ability to bleed, especially reds and blues.