Sunday, August 24, 2008

I’m working on a yarn list of yarns suitable for colorwork to put in the Ravelry Stranded forum group pages. I know you can (and definitely should!) do stranded color knitting with any and all yarns but I wanted to keep this list a reasonable size.

I narrowed down the list to 100% wool yarns, smooth-textured, non-superwash, plied, that come in a wide variety of solid colors or heathers - yarns that are traditionally marketed to color knitters such as Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift or Dale’s Heilo or Rauma’s Finullgarn.

Please let me know if I’ve missed any yarns that fit into the category!

FINGERING WEIGHT
Nature Spun Fingering Weight
Rauma Finullgarn
Knitpicks’ Palette
Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift
Jamieson & Smith 2-ply Jumper Weight Wool
Rowan 4-Ply Soft
Vuorelma Satakieli
Jaggerspun Digit Yarn
Koigu Premium Merino Yarn
Rowan Harris 4-Ply
Harrisville New England Shetland

SPORT WEIGHT
Nature Spun Sport Weight
Elann’s Peruvian Highland Sport
Knitpicks’ Telemark Yarn

DK WEIGHT
Dale of Norway Heilo
Knitpicks’ Merino Style
Jamieson’s Shetland DK
Sandnes Peer Gynt
Rauma Strikkegarn
Jo Sharp Classic DK Wool
Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sport

WORSTED WEIGHT
Cascade 220
Nature Spun Worsted Weight
Elann’s Peruvian Highland Wool
Knitpicks’ Wool of the Andes
Jamieson’s Shetland Heathered Aran (formerly Soft Shetland)
Ram Wools Selkirk
Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Worsted
Ella Rae Classic Worsted
Paton’s Classic Wool
Briggs and Little Heritage 2 Ply
Reynolds Candide
Universal Deluxe Worsted Solid
Plymouth Galway Worsted
Harrisville New England Highland