This week I want to invite you to follow me while I knit a beautiful sweater using a special yarn: UNIVERSAL YARN Fawning, a luxurious blend of baby alpaca (70%) and extra fine merino wool (30%). Just by acknowledging the content, we knitters understand this is a great yarn, soft, light, warm, drapey, in one word, scrumptious! Fawning is a lightweight yarn, it has a generous yardage of 164yds/150m for each 1.75oz/50g ball, and it comes in 15 colors, I believe that everyone can find a color they like!
I selected a neutral color because I want my garment to be versatile enough for both casual and formal occasions. The yarn offers both elegance and warmth! I’ll be using Fawning in Elemental colorway, which is a slightly faded shade of blue, a dark gray-blue that pairs wonderfully with black, gray, beige, and brown.
Five balls of blue-gray, Elemental, UY Fawning
The label on the yarn mentions it can be knitted with different size needles, from US 4 [3.5mm] to US 6 [4.5mm].
I’ll use the elegant Knitter’s Pride LANTERN MOON needles for this great yarn and knit a swatch with three different size needles to decide which ones to use for my project.
As usual, I will mark the size of the needles used in the swatch with yarn overs and purls: one yarn over for 1 mm and a purl for 0.25 mm. I use the mm notation of the needles as I’m more familiar with it, but using the US size will avoid using the purls; it will be easier.
Knitting the swatch gives me a feel of the yarn, it’s luxurious indeed. The knitted fabric feels light and warm. All three needle sizes create wonderful fabric, the density varies a little but not too much. The fuzziness of the alpaca creates a delicate halo around the fabric, and I start dreaming of wearing my finished garment.
My swatch is knitted using different-sized needles from US 4 [3.5mm] to US 6 [4.5mm]
I know that alpaca yarn tends to stretch when wearing and I guess I’ll try to use the smallest size that will accommodate the chosen pattern.
Join me tomorrow when I decide on the pattern and the needle sizes.
The first in a series of posts that follow the completion of a luxurious sweater worked in UY Fawning with Knitter’s Pride LANTERN MOON Destiny Circular Needles fixed circular needle.
