Llama-Rama!

$ 26.00

A blend of half llama & half Romney wool creates a yarn with lovely drape and color plus the elasticity and memory of wool. Great yarn for knitting, crochet or weaving. The rich heathered colors are created by dyeing some of the wool fleece and blending before spinning. No dyelots, all same color name yarn will match.
-design: 2-ply, semi-worsted spun; heathered colors created by blending natural color llama with undyed and dyed-in-the-wool Romney fleece.
-size: fingering weight, 19 wpi 1400 to1 600 yds per pound
-suggested needles: 3 to 5 (US)
-length: approximately 270 yards/245 meters
-weight: 2.5 - 3.5 oz./ 75-100 grams
-gauge: 6 sts. per inch on size 4 (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 llama fleeces from "The Farm" (our friends from Endless Summer Harvest's other farm where they raise llamas) and Downey Ridge Farm in Luray, Virginia. Romney from Solitude and Weather lea in Loudoun County, Virginia.
-fiber content: 50% llama and 50% Romney wool.

Llama is a camalid fiber, actually more like hair than sheep wool which has crimp. Llamas natural colors are different than sheep and we love the ecru, brown and bittersweet brown in this yarn which are not dyed at all. The strong and drapey nature of this yarn lend itself to both crochet and weaving as well as knitting.