Border Leicester Yarn - Soft Spun

$ 11.00

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• Glowing softness eminates from our airy Border Leicester yarn that has just enough twist to hold it together. Very light lofty yarn, delicate with high felting ability. Choose white or gray for lovely soft cowls, scarves or shawls. Works well held double for bulky but still light, airy projects.
• design: 2-ply, semi-worsted spun; lustrous and airy
  size: worsted weight, 7-12 wpi 1100 yds per pound
  suggested needles: 7 to 15 (US)
  length: approximately 110 yards/100 meters
  weight: 2.25 oz./ 641 grams
  gauge: 5 stitches per inch on size 7 (US) up to 3 stitches pre inch on size 13
  care: yarn is pre-washed. hand wash warm with no agitation, lay flat to dry or can be dry cleaned.
• fiber source: hand selected fleeces from Overlook Manor, Warrenton, Virginia and Orange Gate Farm, Maurerton, Virginia
  fiber content: 100% Border Leicester wool.
  Border Leicester Yarn is a Longwool breed developed in the 18th century in the borderlands between England and Scotland (hence the name). Related by breeding to the Leicester Longwool and Blue-Faced Leicester, it is in the middle of those breeds for softness and has beautiful luster and drape. A very personable sheep, they are clean faced with Roman noses. The white fleece is ivory color.
   

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Debbie’s easy cowl

Free

designed by Debbie Deutsch, this quick, easy knit is whispy light and elegant — it is knit flat and joined as you cast off so there is no seaming! 

it takes just two skeins of either Border Leicester fog or cloud

size 19 needles plus a spare needle in a similar size

very basic knitting skills

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Dorset hike

$ 29.00

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• Down-type fleece is springy, spongy and perfect for cushiony, comfortable socks. Down type wools also resist shrinking and felting and that along with added nylon makes it possible to wash firm knit socks in the machine. I even throw them in the dryer.
• -design: 3-ply, woolen spun
  -size: sport weight, 13 wpi
  -suggested needles: 3 to 4 (US) for socks, up to 8 for other
  -length: approximately 235 yards/215 meters (enough for a women's large, or men's average pair of socks
  -weight: 4.25 oz./ 120 grams
  -gauge: 7 sts. per inch on size 3 or 4 (US)
  -care: yarn is pre-washed. The Down type wool plus added nylon make this yarn machine washable. If knit tightly it can be dried in the dryer as well with only a small amount of shrinkage in the length. Of course, hand washing will maintain original appearance the best
• -fiber source: hand selected fleeces from Millcreek Farms, Loudoun County, Virginia
  -fiber content: 80% Dorset wool, 20% nylon
  
  Dorset sheep are originally from the Downs area of England and thought to be a cross between Spanish Merino and Horned sheep of Wales. According to the Oklahoma State Breeds of Livestock listing, the first Dorsets in the US came to Oregon, shipped by the Hudsons Bay Company in the 1860's. East Coast imports came in the late 1800's. Polled (hornless) Dorsets were a mutation that happened at North Carolina State College in the 1950's and now outnumber Horned Dorsets here and in other countries. They are one of the most common sheep breeds in the US. Raised primarily for meat, the ewes are good mothers, frequently have multiple births and can breed "out of season"
  
  The fleece is very white with no black fibers like black faced meat breeds (Suffolks and Hampshires). The sheep will grow fleece from 2.5 to 4 inches long in a year and it has the robust crimp (extremely springy) of Down-type wools.
  
  
  

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