This lovely cotton yarn is laboriously handspun on a drop spindle in Ethiopia by women working for a small cooperative comprised of single mothers.
The yarn is then imported into Rwanda where the ladies of Handspun Hope complete the process of dyeing it organically in the single-ply. Once the yarn is dry, the spinners then ply the yarn with spinning wheels into a two-ply yarn.
Take a look at the process
Due to the characteristics of this naturally hand-dyed yarn, the actual color may vary between skeins. We recommend alternating skeins during knitting.
- Sport weight
- Approx 100 gm / 3.53 ox
- Approx 336 m / 368 yd
- Hand wash
- Dry flat
Pattern Suggestions:
- two skeins
(sweater)
- 1 skein
- 1 skein
- 1 skein
- 1 skein
shawl- 1 skein
- 1 skein makes several
- 1 skein makes several
- 1 skein crochet
- 1 skein crochet
- 1 skein makes several crochet
Impact
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