Welcome!
I'm Anne. I hand-dye yarn, make kits for knitters, and write words for the common good. I put fresh yarn in my shop most Sundays, in tandem with my Sunday newsletter.
Welcome!
I'm Anne. I hand-dye yarn, make kits for knitters, and write words for the common good. I put fresh yarn in my shop most Sundays, in tandem with my Sunday newsletter.
Luna linen/silk is an unusual blend of linen (plant fiber) and silk (protein fiber). It's dense and soft, drapey and sturdy, all at the same time. I've never known a yarn like this. In fingering weight, it makes filmy soft fabric that flows around your body. In worsted weight, it makes a plush fabric that's heavier but somehow also cooling.
For Lather washcloths, Luna makes the kind of Very Special Thing that becomes a gift: for a new baby, for a treasured friend, for yourself. It's the good china and the fancy napkins, but in something as homey as a washcloth.
I used my own 25g skein of fingering weight for one color, and a worsted weight for the second color. I made two cloths and still had plenty of my fingering weight yarn remaining. (My cloths are about 8 by 6 inches, and I used a US size 5 needle. If I was using Luna fingering by itself, I would use a 2.25 mm needle. This yarn feels closer to laceweight than fingering when working with it.)
Base: Luna linen/silk fingeringFiber: 65% silk, 35% linen
Yardage: ~120 yards (110 m) per 25g quarer-skein
Structure: 3-ply
Colorways: