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!
- The colorful dye is printed onto the warm white base 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!
The fine print here is all good news, too: 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!
Please note that there has been a very rare occurence 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!
Looking for more yarn like this? Shop our other fingering-weight yarn, superwash wool yarn, machine washable yarn, and hand-dyed yarn, all available only at Purl Soho.
Product Details
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Content
75% superwash wool, 25% nylon
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Weight
50 grams (1.75 ounces)
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Length
218 yards (199 meters)
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Gauge
8-10 stitches per inch, fingering-weight yarn
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Suggested Knitting Needle
US 0 to 2 (2-2.75 mm)
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Suggested Crochet Hook
US B or C (2.25-2.75 mm)
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Recommended Care
Machine wash cold, tumble dry low
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More Info
Made in Peru, OEKO-TEX Certified
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Perfect Fit Socks Pattern Download
Our Perfect Fit Socks used 1 (2, 2, 2) ball(s) of Purl Soho’s Fine Print to fit a finished foot circumference of about 5½ (7, 8, 9) inches. Pick your favorite color above and add the PDF to your order!