$18.75 $18.75
275 yards | approx. 50 grams | fingering weight
100% Wyoming-grown Targhee-Columbia wool
Dyed in Philadelphia. Spun in New Hampshire.
6 sts per inch US 4 (3½ mm)
7 sts per inch US 2 (2¾ mm)
8 sts per inch US 0 (2 mm)
Fingering-weight Loft channels Targhee-Columbia wool’s airy bounce into feather-light lace, accessories, and garments. Like Shelter, Loft is a woolen-spun 2-ply yarn with delicate twist, specially designed for unique lightness of hand. It’s not a sock yarn, so treat it a little more gently when it’s on the winder and the needles. Once your garment is blocked, the stitches will cohere in a beautifully even and sturdy fabric. Lace garments should open up to reveal stitch motifs with relatively mild blocking. Loft has great flexibility of gauge; it can be knit on 2mm (US 0) needles for a dense and durable fabric or on 4mm (US 6) needles for ethereal open work. Two strands of Loft held together can substitute for Shelter in patterns where you’d like greater stitch definition or a marled fabric of two colors.
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Barclay Dunn (verified owner) –
This is an amazing yarn. At first I was underwhelmed; it seems kind of rough, maybe, or unprepossessing … but I got it in the kit to make Birkin and it has really _really_ terrific stitch definition. The colorwork comes out _great_ in Loft. It does break kind of easily, only a problem when I was trying to work in ends and the ends broke kind of scarily short on me. But I think I have it secured well. I definitely recommend trying out this dark horse running.