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Avonlea Autumn | Mohair-Silk Lace
$ 32.00
Mohair Silk Lace is my favorite yarn to hold with another wool to make a cloud-like fabric.
Mohair Silk Lace is a single-ply strand of absolute luxury. It's a laceweight blend of soft as a cloud kid mohair and silk, and I adore holding it together with another yarn to create sweaters and shawls that have a perfect halo of luxury.
- Use virtually any pattern that calls for a worsted weight yarn and substitute mohair-silk lace + a fingering weight (or sometimes sport weight) yarn.
- It blooms and fluffs, so that the resulting fabric is incredibly resistant to pilling.
- It marls and softens color so that you can create completely new shades and tones.
- The second picture shows this colorway in a knit swatch with the yarn held double (top), held with Cashmere Blend (left) and held with Harvest Sport (bottom).
Colorway: Avonlea Autumn
Base: Mohair Silk Lace
Weight: Lace
Yardage: 477 yards per 50g skein
Color notes: On this base, Avonlea Autumn is a deep aubergine, with the browns and golds of the forest floor showing up as an underlayer. With this colorway, I aim to create the feeling of fallen leaves carpeting a forest floor.
Preorders ship in ~6 weeks. This particular preorder will ship around the 2nd week of January.
Pattern recommendations
Mohair Silk Lace held together with either Cashmere Blend or Harvest Sport
sweater gauge of 16 to 20 sts to 4 inches:
Uniform cardigan by Carrie Bostick Hoge (links to Ravelry)
Yarn specifications
Mohair Silk Lace
70% kid mohair, 30% silk
477 yards | 50g skein
1-ply
Non-superwash
Provenance
kid mohair and silk grown in South Africa
yarn spun in Canada
Gauge
Mohair Silk Lace is ideal to hold together with another yarn for gorgeous color blending, to add that "fluff" factor, and to add durability (and resistance to pilling) to a garment.
You can also knit with Mohair-Silk as a single strand for an airy fabric, or held double with itself for a slightly more durable and also airy fabric.
Do you need to alternate skeins?
Yes. All of my yarn is dyed by hand in small batches of four skeins. There will be variations in color intensity and placement. I think that’s part of what makes each skein perfect – they’re not identical. If you will be using more than 1 skein in your project, alternate skeins to blend any color differences.
Caring for your finished item
My wool yarns should always be hand-washed with a gentle wool wash and cold-water rinse.
Depending on the difference in chemistry between your local water and mine, there may be some color residue in the wash process. Washing and rinsing in cold water will help to minimize this.
Always let your knitted item air dry to prevent shrinking or felting and to keep your item looking its best.