Description
Our Shetland sheep have the finest fleeces and the greatest range of colours of all our sheep. This yarn is soft and relaxed and is a bright golden fawn colour. This is a very traditional colour ,good as the ground colour for many Shetland and Icelandic patterns with a round colour-work yoke.
We have this colour batch in three thicknesses: Aran, DK and 4ply. We have found the Aran yarns are good for a beginner as they knit up quickly and are forgiving of repeated unpicking! They are also excellent for textured knitting with cables, ribs and simple textures such as moss stitch.
We also have this thickness of wool in Chocolate Black from the Hebrideans, Cream from the Dorset Downs, moorit, which is a rich brown from Shetlands and two different greys and an off-white we call Ryemeal from the Jacob sheep. If you want to work with colours, there are therefore plenty of combinations available to you. We think the bold colours are particularly good for simple stripy patterns.
