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2 in stock
440m / 115g per hank
fingering weight
knits to 28 stitches per 10cm on 2.5mm needles
hand wash cool, dry flat
🍁 made in Canada 🍁
This yarn is a beautiful Canadian milled 3-ply 80% merino, 20% nylon blend. A fingering weight yarn, it is incredibly soft for next to skin wear. One skein is enough for a beautiful pair of adult socks, a lovely shawl, or a baby garment. The skein is 115 grams and 482 yards.
Riverside Studio a small independent company based in rural Quebec, Canada that produces high quality hand dyed yarns. Our Canadian spun yarns are dyed in a rich palette of unique and sophisticated colours.
merino wool
Merino sheep create a wool with a long, smooth fibre that is lightweight, warm, and soft. Like all wool, it has excellent breathability and does an excellent job regulating temperature in garments. It is a very popular type of wool to use for hand knitting yarn, and is a great choice for socks and garments worn close to the skin.
superwash wool
Superwash is a treatment method that is used to make wool fibres more resistant to shrinking and felting. There are a different methods used to achieve this, and the methods vary in terms of durability and environmental impact. These yarns often take dye very well, and tend to have a lot more drape and stretch than non-superwash yarns. A hand-dyed yarn may be superwash yet still recommend hand washing: this is to extend the colourfastness.
polyamide / nylon
Nylon is a synthetic material that is often used to provide structure, stability and strength to yarns made with other, softer fibres. A nylon content of at least 15% is recommended for socks.
🍁 about wabi sabi 🍁
We are a proudly Canadian, independently-owned, women-run local yarn store based in Ottawa, Ontario. Our focus is on natural fibres and yarns, and we love to help promote and support Canadian producers and makers. Most of our products are of Canadian and European origin, and we do our best to work with distributors at home and abroad to find products that are of excellent quality while also being affordable, sustainable, and responsibly produced.
'wabi sabi' is a Japanese aesthetic term which focusses on recognizing and embracing the beauty of the unfinished, the imperfect and the impermanent. There is no English synonym, and we use it with respect for its roots.
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