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Yarn information
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- Category:
- Shop 'til you drop-sale
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- Brand::
- Hobbii
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- Content:
- 100% Alpaca
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- Weight:
- 50 g (1.75 oz)
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- Yarn Length:
- 400 m (437 yds)
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- Yarn Weight:
- Lace weight
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- Recommended needles:
- 2.5 mm (US 1.5)
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- Knitting gauge:
- 34 stitches, 46 rows to 10 cm/4"
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- Recommended crochet hook:
- 3 mm (US ~C-2)
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- Crochet gauge:
- 26 sts x 38 rows
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- Care instructions:
- Hand wash recommended / Do not tumble dry / Lay flat to dry
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- Hashtag:
- #hobbiisoftalpacalace
Are you familiar with our lovely alpaca yarn, Soft Alpaca? It’s the same high quality and fabulous fiber, spun in the thinnest version. Soft Alpaca Lace is made from 100% alpaca from Peru. Wonderfully soft and very durable.
Soft Alpaca Lace is extra thin and fine, which makes it a superb choice for more delicate knitting with lots of details. As the name suggests, it’s perfect for knitting lace when you want pretty and delicate lace designs. You’ll get an exquisite result if you use Soft Alpaca Lace for projects like an eyelet shawl. The result will be super light, but you’ll still find that it’s nice and warm since the fibers are hollow and isolating.
Our lace version is spun from the same type of raw yarn and fine fibers that we use for Hobbii Soft Alpaca, and the colors match. It gives you a whole new set of options to play around with the knitting tension and knitting with thinner needles. If you want to play around with different shades to create interesting colors, you can combine Soft Alpaca with lace in a different shade.
We also recommend that you try Soft Alpaca Lace as the second strand in combination with wool yarn, perhaps as a replacement for mohair. Alpaca doesn’t shed like the smooth mohair fibers, and it’s also incredibly soft against your skin. You’ll get far with just a few skeins since this lace version has a running length of 400 meters per skein.
The yarn is OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100 certified (no. 2476-419). Find more information about the certification at https://www.oeko-tex.com/en/
Find patterns for this product here: Patterns (19)
Syd
I bought the dark pine color to hold with a worsted weight yarn for a sweater I'm knitting. The lace weight yarn adds a nice subtle amount of depth to the fabric and a little bit of a halo without making it itchy and without shedding. I bought 4 skeins, and for all of them I found the center pull very easily. This is my first time working with a lace weight yarn and I thought it would be more challenging than it ended up being. I'm holding the soft alpaca lace with berroco vintage yarn in the color "mistletoe" to make a beautiful emerald green. The lace yarn makes it a touch heavier than worsted weight and for a somewhat dense fabric I'm using 4.5 mm needles. Soft alpaca lace really makes the resulting fabric feel and look a lot more expensive. I think it's a good value for the price (even if bought not on sale) because I only need 2-3 skeins for the whole sweater.
Perri
Incredibly soft and durable, with fantastic yardage. The colors are scrumptious, and the pics on the site are right on. An overall great value - I think it might actually be the best every day deal on the net for alpaca.
At this price, or even better, on sale, holding it double with an inexpensive wool will elevate any project without adding weight.
I went all in and paired it with Winter Glow for a ski sweater -fabulous!! I've also held it double with cake yarns like Twister. The drape, color, warmth, and softness are exquisite...
I buy some nearly every time I order.
Rene
This yarn is lovely! The colors are every bit as vibrant and nuanced as I hoped. I'm knitting double-stranded on 4.00mm circular needles, and even with knitting and frogging several trial swatches with the same yarn, there has been no splitting! The color work is turning out beautifully and the yarn is a delight to work with. This is a very soft, slightly fuzzy yarn, so stitch definition is gentle rather than sharp.
Elena
I like this yarn very much, wish I ordered more colors. It is soft and pleasant to work with. I’m knitting a cardigan with two strands on 3mm needles and it’s coming quite nicely. Very excited to see how it behaves in everyday wear. After washing a sample it didn’t change in size at all and I have high hopes the cardigan will hold its size well.
Cass
This is a beautiful rich purple, lace weight yarn. Very soft and silky feeling. It is not irritating at all to the skin and would be suitable for people with sensitive skin. It is one of the nicest feeling alpaca yarns I have ever used, and I have tried many different kinds. Definitely give it a try!