Description
BFL 4 Ply Mini Skeins
- Yarn Notes
- Yarn Specs
- The Brand
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Beautifully hand dyed by Becci and Marcus on their narrowboat studio on UK waterways. These incredible colourways are painstakingly dyed in layers in order to achieve these complex and subtle results.
Bluefaced Leicester is a lustrous English longwool. It makes a soft and strong yarn, and takes dye beautifully. This fantastic yarn is perfect for no-nylon socks, and everything else! Lustrous with beautiful drape, suitable for next-to-skin garments.
And the colours!! Just can’t explain how beautiful they are!
Note: Skeins are not perfectly identical, if using more than one, consider alternating every few rows. Hand wash recommended.
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Ingredients:
100% Blue Faced Leicester (non-Superwash)Length:
80m (87yd)Weight:
20gGauge:
4Ply
Recommended needle / hook size: 3.25 – 3.75mm -
About RiverKnits
Becci and Markus, both engineers by trade, hand dye British wool yarns while travelling around the UK waterways on their narrowboat home and studio.
RiverKnits wool yarn is all sustainably sourced from within the UK, you won’t find any Merino here! The majority of the range today is Bluefaced Leicester; a lustrous English longwool. It makes a soft and strong yarn, and takes dye beautifully.
The 100% BFL which is perfect for no-nylon socks, and everything else. RiverKnits’ blends with silk and cashmere make drool-worthy shawls and other luxury garments.
RiverKnits yarn is dyed in layers, which takes a long time, but it is so worth it for the complex and subtle appearance!
