Our 100% organically grown Cotton Pure is a real natural beauty! This amazing cotton yarn feels lovely in the hand and is wonderfully soft and supple to knit.

About This Yarn

• Cotton Pure is unmercerized, which means it skipped out on avoidable chemical treatments and also that it's extra soft and absorbent, with a pleasing matte finish.
• A sport-weight yarn, its multi-strand structure is ten plies that are actually plied strands themselves, resulting in an incredibly strong and even yarn that creates a smooth stockinette, as well as beautiful stitch definition for stitch patterns from simple seed stitch to elaborate cables.
• Machine wash- and dry-able Cotton Pure is a practical (and lovely!) yarn for housewares and baby clothes, and it's gorgeous for lightweight blankets, wraps, and sweaters, too. Explore our vast collection of (mostly free) knitting patterns in Cotton Pure for some amazing ideas!
• The palette is a wild bouquet of colors taken from a landscape in full bloom: birch and linden trees, warm rocks, blue coastlines, and meadows of wildflowers... Beautiful!
• Want a lot of Cotton Pure? Explore our Cotton Pure On A Cone, 1,000 grams (2,789 yards!) of yarn, all on one cone!
• TIP: As with all plant fibers, we recommend pulling Cotton Pure from the outside of the ball.

Product Details

• Content: 100% organically grown cotton
• Weight: 100 grams (3.5 ounces)
• Length: 279 yards (255 meters)
• Gauge: 5.5-6 stitches per inch, sport-weight yarn
• Suggested Knitting Needle: US 3-5 (3.25-3.75 mm)
• Suggested Crochet Hook: D-F (3.25-4 mm)
• Recommended Care: Machine wash cold, tumble dry low
• Milled In: Peru

Sustainability + Environmental Impact

• Made with organically-grown cotton, and the mill that makes this yarn is OEKO-TEX–SteP Certified, guaranteeing processes that respect the natural environment and provide optimum working conditions.

Recommended Substitutions For Cotton Pure

• Looking for more yarn like this? Japanese Denim Cotton is also a 100% organically grown cotton sport-weight yarn, but with a springy chainette structure. More 100% cotton... Our Cotton Chirp DK and Sketchbook Cotton cover some of the same gauge range but are slightly thicker. Or for beautiful wool substitutes, cast on with classic Good Wool or Daily Wool Sport, a machine-washable superwash wool yarn. Another idea? Try hand-dyed Goldenberry Alpaca for incredible softness and relaxed drape!
• Shop our other sport-weight yarn, cotton yarn, plant-based yarn, and machine washable 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

• Learn all about knitting with cotton yarn and find out why our cotton yarns are so lovely on your needles! Dive into different types of cotton, discover the properties of this cool and breezy plant-based fiber, and learn what "unmercerized cotton" is and why we love knitting with it.
• Dive into the world of yarn with our Complete Guide To Yarn, exploring fiber, spin, weight, dyeing, and more. It's truly a Yarn School 101 for all the basics knitters need to know about yarn!