{"id":1079,"date":"2011-05-27T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2013-10-24T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:38:11","slug":"lk2g-096-sergio-mercado-and-luxury-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/2011\/05\/27\/lk2g-096-sergio-mercado-and-luxury-fibers\/","title":{"rendered":"lk2g-096 Sergio Mercado and Luxury Fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmsZShHdekc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this latest episode of our knitting web video series\/podcast we chat with Sergio Mercado from <a title=\"Qiviuk - Musk Ox and Luxury Fibers\" href=\"http:\/\/qiviuk.com\" target=\"_blank\">Qiviuk<\/a>. He tells us all about how they got started with luxury fibers from Peru, South America and the Artic.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see some of the rarest and most luxurious of yarns and fibers like\u00a0 <a title=\"Guanaco on Yarnmarket.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnmarket.com\/yarn\/Windy_Valley_Muskox_Yarn-Guanaco_Yarn-2522.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guanaco<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnmarket.com\/yarn\/Windy_Valley_Muskox_Yarn-Vicuna_Yarn-4224.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vicuna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnmarket.com\/yarn\/Windy_Valley_Muskox_Yarn-Qiviut_Yarn-1867.html\" target=\"_blank\">Qiviuk <\/a>and Qiviuk blends. Sergio will also tell us how he got his store start in the Plaza Hotel in New York City<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s on the set:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"static_txt_preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1933064188\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=letsknit2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1933064188\" target=\"_blank\">Think Outside the Sox: 60+ Winning Designs from the Knitter\u2019s Magazine Contest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What I am wearing:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the interview: <a title=\"Ishbel in Whimsical Little Knits\" href=\"http:\/\/ysolda.com\/store\/whimsical-little-knits\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #2277dd;\">Ishbel <\/span><\/a>shawlette by <a href=\"http:\/\/ysolda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #2277dd;\">Ysolda<\/span><\/a> knitted with Tili Thomas Beaded Plie American Beauty<\/li>\n<li>In the Chair &#8211; Fan Kimono from Vicki Square <a id=\"static_txt_preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931499896?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=letsknit2-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1931499896\" target=\"_blank\">Knit Kimono: 18 Designs with Simple Shapes<\/a> made with <a title=\"Somerset at Bristol Yarn Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plymouthyarn.com\/index.php?nav=cYarn.yarnDetail&amp;yarnid=000287&amp;searchcollection=000014\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol Yarn Gallery Somerset<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Special Thanks to Sergio Mercado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this latest episode of our knitting web video series\/podcast we chat with Sergio Mercado from Qiviuk. He tells us all about how they got started with luxury fibers from Peru, South America and the Artic. You&#8217;ll see some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/2011\/05\/27\/lk2g-096-sergio-mercado-and-luxury-fibers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,4,266,6],"tags":[705,26,704,237,280,623,275,69,292,277,278,699,473,460,283,16,732,589,289,290,315,703,483,28,276,700,93,61,701,181,24,279,32,702,20,731,92,63],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-interview","category-episode","category-field-trp","category-knitting","tag-alberta-canada","tag-alpaca","tag-artic","tag-bloopers","tag-cat","tag-community-supported-agriculture","tag-craft","tag-crochet","tag-entrelac","tag-fiber","tag-fiber-arts","tag-guanaco","tag-interweave-knits","tag-ishbel-shawlette","tag-kimono","tag-knit","tag-knitting","tag-knitting-videos","tag-lets-knit2gether","tag-letsknit2gethercom","tag-lk2g","tag-peru","tag-plus-size","tag-podcast","tag-purl","tag-qiviuk","tag-qiviut","tag-ravelry","tag-sergio-mercado","tag-spin","tag-spinning","tag-stitch","tag-stitches","tag-vicuna","tag-video","tag-video-podcast","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}