Handspun Yarn

Hand-spun Yarns

Use handspun or hand dyed yarns to personalise a garment made from commercial yarn - add a stripe, use it for cuffs, it’s all in your imagination. These yarns also make great scarves, beanies and wraps; alternatively, yarnoholics might just like to have a few in their stash.

Each skein of hand spun yarn is unique and may differ slightly from its companion (even if spun and dyed at the same time). When using multiple skeins work 2 rows from one skein and then 2 rows from the next carrying the yarn loosely up the side.

Dark & Stormy Night $27.50 per skein
5 skeins available (approx 85g & 165m each)

A beaded yarn that combines a single of purple with a single of black-grey-white. Not a chunky yarn, but the grey single is "uneven" so your knitting will have some extra dimension. The beads are threaded onto the purple single as it is spun and they are approximately 1.5m apart - it is very difficult to see the beads in the photo, but believe me they are there. 100% Australian merino, this yarn would make a great scarf or wrap.

Rainbow Chunky
$40 for total quantity

A chunky yarn hand spun and dyed from 100% Australian merino. Total of 3 skeins, approximately the same size, total metreage of 285m, total weight 240g.

Summer Pudding
$20 per skein
8 skeins available
(approx 85g each)

An uneven yarn that combines the colours of summer berries on one single with natural on the other single, could also be called "berries with cream". 100% Australian merino, each skein weighs at least 85g.

Beaded Rainbow Chunky $20 per skein
3 skeins available
(approx 65m each)

Not as bright as "Rainbow Chunky" but the chunky colours of the rainbow are plied with a red single that has had a green glass bead threaded onto it. 100% Australian merino. Would make a great scarf or be eminently suitable for the bands or collar of jumper, coat or cardigan.

Rasparilla

$15 per skein

A thick-thin chunky yarn hand spun and dyed from 100% Australian merino in a combination of raspberry and sarsparilla (purple). Wonderfully suitable for a scarf or cuffs of a jumper/cardigan. Each skein weighs at least 85g.

Flame

$17.50 per skein

The colours of fire lick the length of snowy white in this yarn. Wearing a scarf made from this will make you feel warm just looking at it. Each skein weighs at least 95g, 100% Australian merino.

In the Navy

$12.50 per skein

Spun in the "gimp" style - 2 lopsided components, this navy and white yarn would make a perfect scarf. Each skein weighs approximately 70g, 100% Australian merino.

Make your own "wearable art" with hand spun yarn