Flecked with color like the ink-speckled hands of a printmaker, Purl Soho's delightful Fine Print yarn will inspire your creations in the realm of socks and beyond!

About This Yarn

• Colorful dye is printed onto a warm white yarn by hand, resulting in an idiosyncratic application of color where each stitch is a joyful little surprise! This yarn knits up into a marbled fabric of incredible depth, with moments of high saturation, low saturation, and everything in between.
• Fine Print is a classic sock yarn, springy, durable, and super soft. Spun and dyed in Peru with 75% superwash wool and 25% nylon, its round, 4-ply structure lends excellent stitch definition and strength that will last through daily wear and many trips through the washer and dryer.
• A fingering-weight yarn, Fine Print can be knit at a denser gauge for socks or a little looser for everything else... Think baby hats and garments, colorful shawls, and more, and explore our growing collection of (mostly free) knitting patterns in Fine Print for inspiration!
• 50-gram balls give you the creative license to dream up exciting combinations for stripes, color blocking, or colorwork, and the palette of fruity colors, from punchy Purple Cassis to sweet Pink Apricot, inspires fun... Mix, match, contrast, harmonize, play!
• Please note that there has been a rare occurrence of this yarn "pooling." Consider alternating balls every row or round to keep the color evenly dispersed. Our Working With Irregular + Hand-Dyed Yarns: Avoiding Pooling Tutorial explains this problem and solution in more depth!

Product Details

• Content: 75% superwash wool, 25% nylon
• Weight: 50 grams (1.75 ounces)
• Length: 218 yards (199 meters)
• Gauge: 8-10 stitches per inch, fingering-weight yarn
• Suggested Knitting Needle: US 0 to 2 (2-2.75 mm)
• Suggested Crochet Hook: B or C (2.25-2.75 mm)
• Recommended Care: Machine wash cold, tumble dry low
• Milled In: Peru

Sustainability + Environmental Impact

• The fine print here is all good news, too! This yarn is OEKO-TEX Certified, and the superwash wool comes from a carbon-neutral mill in Uruguay that uses 98% wind energy and has on-site water treatment of all water effluents. They are also animal lovers, allowing their flocks to live their best sheep lives!

Recommended Substitutes For Fine Print

• Looking for more yarn like this? Our Stormy Superwash Sock yarn is a similar superwash wool and nylon yarn that comes in a moody palette of heathered colors. Our 100% cashmere Nigh Fine also knits up at a similar gauge, as do two of our gorgeous single-ply yarns, Spindle and Line Weight. If you're interested in a no-nylon sock yarn, check out merino-suri Quartz!
• Shop our other fingering-weight yarn, superwash wool yarn, machine washable 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!