As teeming with life as the meeting place of river and sea, our Estuary yarn celebrates the mingling of different fibers and hand-dyed colors. Flowing with movement, harmony, and balance, it's a truly artful yarn rooted in creativity and transformation!

About This Yarn

• Made in Peru, Estuary is an exquisite mix of fine merino wool, mulberry silk, and linen, spun into a fascinating single-ply yarn imbued with nature's complexities.
• This fingering-weight yarn relaxes and blooms beautifully when blocked to form a soft, fluid fabric, with a luster that catches the eye like light on water and with a touch of wildness from the linen fibers sprouting from the strand.
• Each color in Estuary's earthy palette, from mysterious River Blue to soft Lilac Petal, is made by hand-dyeing 2 or 3 colors onto a warm white yarn, shaded by the natural colors of silk and linen. You'll find deep lagoons of color punctuated by sand bars, with swirling eddies where they meet. Every skein of this yarn is like a bird's eye view of an estuary... Unique, precious, and glowing with its own beauty.
• Estuary will bring its untamed appeal to everything you knit with it, whether smooth stockinette or textural stitches from garter stitch and beyond, and be sure to also try knitting with two strands held together for double the color play. Explore our growing collection of knitting patterns in Estuary and cast on! 
• Please Note: This hand-dyed yarn will vary from skein to skein and especially between dye lots. Be sure to purchase enough for your project and consider alternating skeins to reduce color pooling.

Product Details

• Content: 65% fine merino wool, 20% mulberry silk, 15% linen
• Weight: 100 grams (3.5 ounces)
• Length: 384 yards (351 meters)
• Gauge: 6.5-7.5 stitches per inch, fingering-weight yarn
• Suggested Knitting Needle: US 3-5 (3.25-3.75 mm)
• Suggested Crochet Hook: D-F (3.25-3.75 mm)
• Recommended Care: Hand wash and lay flat to dry
• Milled In: Peru

Sustainability + Environmental Impact

• Estuary is Peru Fair Trade Certified, which means the mill that makes it is committed to fair and safe working conditions, as well as a respect for the environment, with low-impact production techniques, a responsible consumption of resources, and the reuse, recycling, and reduction of raw materials.
• It is also OEKO-TEX Certified and adheres to European REACH regulations that protect human health and the environment from harmful chemicals.

Recommended Substitutions For Linen Quill

• Looking for more yarn like this? Our super popular Linen Quill is a very similar gauge but is a mix of fine highland wool, alpaca, and linen, while Cattail Silk offers a similar gauge and hardiness but in 100% silk. For a plant-fiber option, be sure to check out Oleander, a gorgeous 50-50 mix of cotton and linen.
• Explore more, and shop our other fingering-weight yarn, merino wool yarn, silk yarn, linen yarn, and hand-dyed yarn, all available only at Purl Soho.
• Learn more about how to substitute yarn with our confidence-boosting Yarn Substitution Made Easy article!

Learn More

• Have you ever wondered where the name "fingering weight" came from? Or pondered the difference between fingering-weight yarn and sock yarn? Check out our guide to fingering-weight yarn to get all your questions answered!