Introducing Purl Soho’s Super Soft Merino!
We are so grateful to end this harrowing week with the happiest announcement we’ve had in a long time. Today Purl Soho launches our very own collection of yarn, starting with our super scrumptious Super Soft Merino!
A thick cloud of 100% Peruvian merino, Super Soft Merino is the dreamiest, cuddliest, toastiest yarn you can imagine. This loosely spun single ply knits up at a cozy 3 stitches to the inch, perfect for winter chills and quick gifts!
As readers of the Purl Bee know, our love for yarn is followed closely by our love for color! Creating a signature palette for our Super Soft Merino was unbelievably fun, like picking a bouquet of garden-fresh flowers. Our beautiful rainbow includes a dozen of our very favorite colors: Super Pink, Red Zinnia, Clementine Orange, Yellow Yellow, Extra Green, Desert Sky, Peacock Blue, Timeless Navy, Oyster Gray, Toasted Charcoal, Soft Black and Heirloom White.
Each skein is an ample 87 yards long. Want to start with a scarf? Just two skeins knit up into a beautifully classic scarf, or try three skeins for a luxuriously generous neck wrapper!
We have lots of Purl Bee patterns in the works, but we also can’t wait to see what you, our ingenious readers, create with Super Soft Merino. Big, cozy sweaters, sweeping wraps, dramatic cowls, cushiony baby blankets, sophisticated lap throws, and fabulous hats; monotone, stripes, ombre, fair isle, colorblocking, the possibilities are endless!
To celebrate this exciting venture and to get you super inspired, we’re having a…
Super Soft Merino Giveaway!
HOW: To enter leave a comment on this post telling us what you’re inspired to make with Super Soft Merino. Be sure to enter your email address in the email field on the comment submission form so we can contact you if you win. (Don’t worry; we never publish or share email addresses!)
WHEN: Leave your comment by 6pm est, Tuesday, November 6th 2012. The winners will then be chosen at random.
WHAT: One lucky winner will receive 10 skeins of Super Soft Merino and a second winner will receive 3 skeins. The winners will get to choose whatever color (or colors!) they want!
A big colorful pile of Super Soft Merino is our dream come true. Give it a try; you’ll know what we mean! Ready to check it out? Browse our whole collection of Super Soft Merino right here and get inspired!
UPDATE on 09/11/2012 by Purl Bee
We have two winners! Our first place winner is Lauren who plans to make “a big cushy cowl out of that light blue” (sounds beautiful to us!), and our second place winner is Valgerdur, all the way from Sweden! She has lots of plans for Super Soft Merino: “a warm winter sweater for my little boy, cowls for my sisters for Christmas or even a baby blanket for a friend´s unborn child.” We’re so happy for both Lauren and Valgerdur, and we thank all of our wonderful readers for commenting and sharing your enthusiasm! – Whitney
Oooh, I'd love to make a snuggly turtleneck with this yarn. Love the bright colors. Or, if I got second place, I'd make a cowl or something.
Such beautiful yarn! Winter is coming and my 3 little nephews love playing in the snow. With this yarn I would make them super soft Hats and Scarves to help keep their delicate skin warm.
I'd make a hat and matching mitten set for my mom's Christmas present. Would love to try to do some colorwork with multiple colors, too!
This yarn looks so soft, I need to make a thick, fuzzy winter hat for everyone in my family! Maybe some matching mittens too. I love that bright shade of pink!
mmmmm…..scarves and hats and mittens and headbands and wraps. where to start? how to choose?
I'm on a crocheted hat kick right now and this luscious merino would make gorgeous hats to keep the winter chill off!
Oh the colors! Magnificent!
I dream of making a wardrobe of hats, cowls and scarfs or a throw blanket to send with my 20 year old baby on her semester abroad in Florence this January. It's sure to be damp, cold and poorly heated and it would be like sending along a hug from me!
I would love to make a super cozy blanket for my baby due in February!
I would knit up a storm of Snowflake Scarves. Congratulations and thank you.
A warm, fuzzy ear warmer is just the thing this yarn calls for! Yellow yellow would certainly scare the winter blues away, but my school colors are red and white… but black could go under my marching band hat…
I just want to fill a bathtub up with this yarn and go swimming in it. Looks soooo soft… A long cowl would be decadent.
gorgeous yarn, love the colours!! A cowl with lots of texture for me, and a super sweet baby sweater for little Violet would be swell!
I would love to make a cowl!
I'd love to make a baby blanket for my new little nephew for Christmas! Lovely yarn!
With 10 skeins I would make a throw or gigantic shawls for staying cozy on chilly nights. With 3 skeins, I would make mittens, or slippers, or something cozy for my two daughters.
Lots of Christmas scarves for friends and family!
It's cold outside in Boston, but it's cozy warm in the school library where I work. So I need some heavy duty leg and armwarmers to bridge the gap-and remind my students to add a pop of color anywhere they can! Perhaps I can tackle my fair isle nerves with grays and glorious greens and yellows, or a dash of shocking pink.
I'd knit up a "substitute hug" aka a luxurious warm cowl to keep my mom warm back in VA while I am far away in California!
I love Chunky yarn! I can't wait to make a bright cozy cowl with this beautiful yarn 🙂
I've always been obsessed with ice cream. In the winter, when ice cream shops close earlier and earlier, what better way to get my fix by knitting a colorful sweater with a cute, colorful ice cream cone front and center of a cool baby blue background. Surely, when I do finally eat a real ice cream cone, I'll at least be cozy and warm with my new adorable sweater.
It looks so cozy! I'd love to use this to make your Big Herringbone Cowl, which I've been eyeing since last year 🙂
A big fluffy sweater!
With 10 skeins I'd make cuddly scarves and hats for my two little ones, hubby and me… 3 skeins would be ample for their little necks and bonces… getting chilly in the UK now! Great luck with a gorgeous yarn, and swift recovery for your city.
I would make me a bright cowl to liven up my drab wardrobe. Probably in a bright pink or yellow.
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AH! The colors are great! I would LOVE to make a scarf or cowl out of this bad boy!
Oooh, lovely. I'd love to make cowls for all the wonderful folks in my office!!
That yarn looks so yummy! I'm thinking the scarf on today's post looks like a perfect option for that yarn :).
Those fun and bright colors would make a great baby blanket for my daughter!
Definitely a scarf for the winter, or perhaps a cowl 🙂
I am inspired to make a soft, squishy blanket for my sister.
With that lucious description of how soft and cuddly this Super Soft Merino Yarn is I could not resist but create a colourful little babies blanket. Knit or Crochet? Undecided… so think I'd leave that 'til I could whip something up in each and see what suits it best. Thanks for opportunity to win this gorgeous yarn.
With 2 new nieces in the family it definately be some cute baby item and then other baby items to donate
Hope I'm not to late. I would enjoy making a nice soft cowl with this yarn : D
Love all these gorgeous colors. And the snowflake scarf ! It is the first thing that I want to try with this new yarn.
oh ! I love, love this scarf ! I want to make this scarf ! the rosette stitches is so elegant, !! thank you !!
i would knit up a deliciously thick and colorful baby blanket for my up-in-coming baby!
Wow! what a dream come true! It would be so hard to decide, Definitley cozy little items for my girls:) Thank you for this chance!!!
I am inspired to make a warm cuddly shawl!
With colours like this thoughts of cupcakes, ice cream and rainbows come to mind, the knitting projects are endless. Where do I begin, knit one purl one “wrap me up”, soft & snuggly comes to mind in a luxurious afghan.
I would make some ORANGE fingerless mitts for my 85 year old Dad. I made him some several years ago and he loves them, but they are losing their pizzazz with wear.His first weren’t orange. He wears them every day in chilly weather while he drinks his morning coffee and does the crossword puzzle. He says they keep the arthritis away. I would make these in Orange to celebrate the SF Giants World Series win this year! He is an avid fan and can ROCK the colors!
made one traveling cable hat with your pinkish super soft merino and it was so great that i made another in blue! and now everyone in the family wants one! wonderful yarn! both to knit and to wear.
I have noticed the price of the Super Soft Merino yarn is fairly high. Is that for one skein or are there multiple skeins included for that one price?
Hi Lisa-
The Super Soft Merino is $19.50 per 87 yard skein. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
Best-
Molly
I would love to make monogrammed hats for every member of my family: My husband and me, four children, three spouses and two grandchildren! Then we would have our picture taken to send for next year’s holiday card!