A beautiful mix of 67% merino wool and 33% organically grown cotton, Plein Air combines the best of both the animal and plant worlds. A totally endearing yarn, it is very soft in your hands and supple on your needles!

• The wool lends body to the yarn so that it’s airy and lofty, while the cotton adds a pleasant weight so that your finished knits hang beautifully. It's a wonderful yarn for babies and adults, for sweaters and blankets, for absolutely everyone and everything.
• Plein Air knits up into a satisfyingly even fabric that blooms into perfection when you block it.
• A light worsted/DK-weight yarn, Plein Air knits up to 5.25- 5.75 stitches per inch. On the lighter side of a medium weight yarn, it's not too thick and not thin, not too bulky and not too skimpy… In fact, perfect!
• And Plein Air’s colors have a gorgeous heathered quality that comes from the slight difference in how the wool and cotton absorb dye. The palette of 16 colors brings to mind a raucous field of wildflowers with an easel set up on its edge, ready for some landscape painting “en plein air!”
• Be sure to check out all of our Plein Air knitting patterns for some great ideas of what to make with this wonderful yarn!

The wool in Plein Air meets the Responsible Wool Standard, which means it comes from farms that have a progressive approach to land management and follow strict standards for animal welfare, and the cotton is organically grown.