Buy Wool from our own Jacob Sheep

HAPPY WOOL

For the first time we have had the fleeces from our own Jacob Sheep professionally spun by the Natural Fibre Company into double knitting wool.

Your chance to buy knitting wool made from the fleeces of Jacob sheep contentedly grazing the sweet grass of the beautiful Rossendale Hills.

The wool is supplied in skeins or balls, each of 100 grammes, and comes in four colourways created from the naturally coloured Jacob fleeces without the use of dyes. IVORY is from the natural undyed white fleece and knits into a creamy white fabric with the subtle marbled effect characteristic of Jacob wool. CHARCOAL UMBER reflects the deep warm black of the Jacob's "spots". In addition we offer two "marled" yarns created from a mixture of the two threads and named after the lacy plumage of rare-breed chickens which they resemble. WYANDOTTE SPECKLE gives a light, lacy marled effect, whilst MARAN SPECKLE offers a more sober alternative. We are offering it POST FREE at a price of £7.25 per skein or £7.75 per ball (see below). The Natural Fibre Company offers a range of patterns suitable for knitting in pure wool, or the wool can be used for any double knitting pattern provided it will knit to the tension specified in your pattern.

roses1-1 (10K)

The versatility of the wool is illustrated by its use in pictureknits such as the sample swatch shown. The design is from Sue Bradley's book "Cotton Collection". This book features a chequerboard cardigan using plain and bouclé cotton yarn which can easily be adapted to use this plain and marl effect pure wool yarn. Sue's books are a goldmine of inspiration and can still be obtained on Amazon: try this link for her knitting books, also here for more recent publications.

guernseygrey (28K)

We have had one batch of fleeces made into a new yarn, spun for us by the Natural Fibre Company. It is a lovely soft, silver-grey FIVE PLY WORSTED-SPUN GENUINE GUERNSEY WOOL. The worsted process is more expensive than woollen spinning and so the 100 gram hanks are more expensive than the DK, but fine yarns go further, and worsted yarn is harder wearing than woollen-spun yarn and finer. This means that this yarn, although five ply, can be used as four ply in four-ply patterns to make, for example, socks, and should wear better than items knitted with four-ply woollen-spun yarn. A good idea would be to use this yarn for the feet of the socks and do the legs in one of those glorious random-dyed wools that are available. The latter are usually very expensive and this method would enable you to get two pairs of socks out of one skein of the special yarn.
Used double, it would equate to our other, double knitting, wool - this effectively gives another colour to the dk range. It was spun to make genuine guernsey sweaters, of course, and should be ideal for this. It knits up beautifully on very small needles (old British sizes 10 and 12). guernseycloseup

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Silver Grey worsted-spun five-ply guernsey yarn

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100g (Approx 210 metres) BALLS

100g (Approx 210 metres) SKEINS

100g skein (approx. 245 metres) genuine worsted-spun 5-ply GUERNSEY wool, Silver Grey
£8.50


	Waistcoat by Mrs. Sheila Riley. Open mesh crochet base threaded with wool in various colours.

Hat: free pattern at www.blackerdesigns.co.uk/about/free-knitting-patterns	Sunray Sweater: free pattern at www.blackerdesigns.co.uk/about/free-knitting-patterns	Beautiful cable waistcoat made by Helen's Mum

Jacket made by Mrs. Sheila Riley	Jumper made to showcase a skein of recycled silk yarn: pattern adapted from Sue Bradley's book "Stitches in Time".	Traditional Guernsey made in our new five-ply wool

Ballband information

Standard Washing Instructions: This product is PURE WOOL and therefore best washed gently by hand at blood heat using only washing powder/liquid intended for wool, or dry cleaned. Do not wring or spin. Drip dry flat and away from heat. We do recommend trying a swatch in your washing machine: our washing machine washes garments made from this wool satisfactorily on the wool cycle at 30° . HOWEVER, washing machines vary, we use eco-friendly washballs rather than detergent, and our premises use natural spring water, so we can take no responsibility for how this wool performs unless washed by hand as above.
Felting: Although this is 100% wool, felters tell us that it is difficult to get Jacob wool to felt. This suggests that it may wash well (see above).
DK Tension: 19 stitches and 27 rows to 10 cm square on 4mm needles.
Five-Ply Tension: 28 stitches and 36 rows to 10 cm square on 2.25mm needles.

Here is the page about the providers of our unique wool products: our flock of Jacob Sheep

Roses design knitted swatch used by kind permission of Sue Bradley

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