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Bulky Wool 100g (3.52 oz): Rare Breed Wensleydale and Bluefaced Leicester Millhouse Blue

Bulky Wool 100g (3.52 oz): Rare Breed Wensleydale and Bluefaced Leicester Millhouse Blue

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Ethically produced 100g Skein (3.53 oz) 

Bulky Wool, very lustrous and beautifully soft Wensleydale blended with our finest Bluefaced Leicester. 

This wool boasts fantastic stitch definition and drape.  It is silky, smooth, soft and lustrous.  Wensleydale is a versatile yarn and will knit to a standard tension.  Ideal for any wool knitting or crochet pattern that requires a bulky wool.  Please see our table below for further information.

This is a very rich navy blue.  Very difficult to take an accurate photograph.  The colour of the rib hat in my photo section is the best representative of this lustrous navy blue.

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Colour

Millhouse Blue

Millhouse Blue

Yarn Weight

Chunky Plus

Bulky

Ball Weight

100g

3.52oz

Yarn Length

85 meters

96 yards

Tension

10cm sq

6mm needles: 14 sts x 18 rows
7mm needles: 12 sts x 16 rows
8mm needles: 11 sts x 15 rows
9mm needles: 10 sts x 14 rows

3.93 inches sq

size 10 needles: 14 sts x 18 rows
size 10.5 needles: 12 sts x 16 rows
size 11 needles: 11 sts x 15 rows
size 13 needles: 10 sts x 14 rows

Washing

Pure wool - hand wash and dry flat OR wash on the woollen setting on your modern washing machine preferably at 20C and spin at 800rpm

Pure wool - hand wash and dry flat OR wash on the woollen setting on your modern washing machine preferably at 20C and spin at 800rpm

 

...........         This yarn is a revelation and I cannot stop petting it.

I'm knitting a swatch on 6mm needles and am thrilled with how it's turning out. I am not usually a lover of soft wools because I feel they tend to lack personality. Also in my experience the really soft wools seem to pill and look ratty really quickly because they don't usually possess the qualities that make a yarn hardwearing - high twist, a little bit of grit and prickle... But your buttery soft Big Wool yarn is an exception! It's got presence and woolliness yet feels silky and smooth to the touch and it looks to me as though it will wear well in my road testing.

There's less of a difference here between the airy plump yarn ball and fat bouncy stitches worked in this yarn; the hand-squish-grab really gives an instant impression of the soft and silky nature of the yarn. 

Felicity Ford  

 

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