CLEARANCE: Icelandic Yarn

$ 18.40 $ 23.00

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• Icelandic sheep grow a fleece with a long outer coat and a soft under down in one of the widest range of natural colors in the sheep world. Our Icelandic Yarn is a little softer and more refined than traditional lopi, a two ply, semi-worsted spun yarn has a halo from the underdown. Naturally dyed yarns in addition to the palette of natural undyed sheep shades. Will felt extremely easily. This wool does not have any elasticity.
• design: 2-ply, semi-worsted spun with both coats together giving it a lovely halo. Will felt extremely easily
  size: varies between colors: dk to light worsted, 12-13 wpi
  suggested needles: 5 to 7 (US) length: approximately 130 yards/119 meters
  weight: varies slightly between colors, 2.25 to 3.25 oz./ 53-92 grams
  gauge: varies between colors, 5-6 sts. per inch on sizes 5 (US)
  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 White Rock Manor, Pine Hollow Farm, Three Bags Wool and Kingsolver/Hopp Farm all in Virginia
  fiber content: 100% Icelandic wool.
  Icelandic sheep are one of the oldest breeds in the world. Brought to Iceland by the Vikings in the ninth and tenth centuries, they were imported to Canada in the 1990's. Icelandic fleece is double coated: the long outer coat is called tog and the short down undercoat is called thel. This Primitive type fleece provided many types of fiber for varied uses, ropes, sails and clothing all from one fleece. The primitive genetics also give us many natural colors from white, silvers, reds, brown all the way to black.

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Montadale true woolen

$ 24.00

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• Spun on the last mule spinner in the US, the machine uses a long draw method of spinning to trap air for extra warmth and light weight. Fast to knit, this woolen yarn is wonderfully squishy and warm; perfect for sweaters, hap shawls, comforters and the greatest hat yarn ever! Partner Sue Bundy says it's like old fashioned yarn...
  We talked about it in a video that is on YouTube
• -design: 2-ply, woolen spun on a mule spinner (very woolen indeed!); versatile knitting yarn that is warm but light. Woolen yarns can pill. Great for mittens, hats, shawls, throws…anything you would like to wrap yourself up in on a cold day. So comforting.
  -size: worsted weight, 9-10 wpi 750 yds per pound
  -suggested needles: 8 to 10 (US)
  -length: approximately 140 yards/128 meters
  -weight: approximately 4 oz./ 113 grams
  -gauge: 4 stitches per inch on size 9 (US)
  -care: yarn is pre-washed. hand wash warm with low agitation, lay flat to dry or can be dry cleaned.
• -fiber source: hand selected fleeces from Saffer's Montadales in Warwick, Maryland on the Eastern Shore
  -fiber content: 100% Montadale wool.
  
  Montadale is a modern US breed developed in the 1930's in the mid-west from Cheviot rams with Columbia ewes. These sheep are raised for both meat and their exceptionally white wool which is in the "medium" range. Medium is right in the middle of all the types of wool and makes an excellent knitting yarn that is fairly soft and yet still fairly strong.

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Targhee 2-Ply Yarn

$ 17.00

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• Targhee Yarn is a Fine wool, soft and elastic. Easy to knit, easy to wear, this worsted weight yarn is spun very evenly, has good body and fairly sturdy ply. Not a bit scratchy, it's a good yarn for toddlers, kids and grownup clothes, great for colorwork (small skeins so you can get multiple colors). Sue's favorite cowl yarn.
• design: 2-ply, woolen spun; very versatile knitting yarn, light and warm without any scratchiness
  size: worsted weight, 13 wpi 1125 yds per pound
  suggested needles: 7-8 (US)
  length: small skeins approximately 110 yards/100 meters; large skeins approximately 220 yards/200 meters
  weight: small skeins: 1.75 oz./ 50 grams; large skeins: 3.4 oz/100 grams
  gauge: 5 st. per inch on size 5 (US)
  care: yarn is pre-washed. hand wash warm with low agitation, lay flat to dry or can be dry cleaned.
• fiber source: hand selected fleeces from What Next? Farm in York, Pennsylvania
  fiber content: 100% Targhee wool.
  Targhee is a Fine wool, soft and elastic. The breed was developed in Idaho in 1926, one of the newest in America. Most of the Targhee sheep are in the western range lands in large flocks, they is an unusual breed in the Eastern US.

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Tunis double twist

$ 20.00

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• Tunis is a Medium wool…perfectly named: it is medium strong, medium soft with a medium staple length. Light, fun yarn that looks like a soft spun single, but is actually two pencil rovings softly twisted together. Not super strong, but easy to knit and wear. Good for hats, scarves, throws, vests etc.
• design: double twist, woolen spun
  size: worsted weight, 12 wpi
  suggested needles: 6 to 8 (US)
  length: approximately 120 yards/109 meters
  weight: 2.5 to 2.9 oz./70-82 grams
  gauge: 4.5 sts. per inch on sizes 7 (US)
  care: yarn is pre-washed. hand wash warm with low agitation, lay flat to dry or can be dry cleaned.
• fiber source: hand selected fleeces from Beaucaire Farm in Purcellville, Virginia
  fiber content: 100% Tunis wool.
  Brought into America during colonial times (George Washington had a Tunis ram), Tunis is well adapted to the humid mid-Atlantic region. They are a very beautiful sheep; the lambs are born all cinnamon color (red in the sheep world) and as they grow up, their fleece turns white while they maintain red faces and legs. The wool is Medium: medium soft, medium length and is very versatile wool.

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Romney semi-worsted spun

$ 30.00

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• Romney is a lustrous Longwool and spinning it with a semi-worsted technique accentuates its shine and silkiness. Available in five natural sheep shades, hand dyed solid or handpainted colors on white or overdyed on light gray or gray base. A strong yarn that will give great stitch definition and drape beautifully. Perfect for jackets & sweaters, throws, hats, scarves, mittens etc.

• yarn design: 2-ply, semi-worsted spun. Lustrous and silky 
  size: varies slightly between colors, aran weight, 9 wpi  488 to 600 yds per pound
  suggested needles: 8 to 11 (US)
  length: approximately 130 yards/121 meters
  weight: varies slightly between colors, 4 to 5+ oz./ 113-141 grams
  gauge: varies between colors, 4-4.2 sts. per inch on sizes 8-9 (US)
  fiber care: Yarn is pre-washed. Hand wash warm with low agitation, lay flat to dry or can be dry cleaned.
• Fiber farms: Weather Lea and Solitude in Loudoun County, Virginia.
  Fiber content: 100% Romney wool.
  

• Fiber farms: Weather Lea and Solitude in Loudoun County, Virginia.
  Fiber content: 100% Romney wool.
  

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solitude wool yarn comparison chart

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free downloadable pdf. chart of all Solitude Wool yarns.

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• suggested needle size range
• type of wool
• fiber content
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• number of plys
• dye type 
• shave 'em to save 'em qualified? 
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