Darn Good Yarn Silk Sport Yarn

Darn Good Yarn’s Twist Sport Weight Silk in Hot Air Balloon — a warm twist of orange, pink and cyan that reads like a sunset balloon over water. Recycled-silk colour drift gives it texture you can’t fake in mill-spun. Each cake is one of one.

This listing is for one cake in your choice. Five available.

About the yarn:

Twist Sport Weight Silk is Darn Good Yarn’s 2-ply recycled silk sport weight — 50 g / 150 yd per cake, a smooth, lightly lustrous strand that knits at standard sport gauge on about US 3–5 / 3.25–3.75 mm. Recycled-silk yarn always carries small slubs and colour drift along the run — the trade for the deeper, naturally-painterly colour you don’t get out of millspun. Hand-wash cool, lay flat to dry.

• Fibre: 100% recycled silk (2-ply)
• Weight: sport
• Yardage: 150 yd / 137 m per 50 g cake
• Cake size: 1.75 oz / 50 g
• Needle: US 3–5 / 3.25–3.75 mm
• Care: hand-wash cool, lay flat to dry

About Darn Good Yarn:

Darn Good Yarn is a women-owned US studio that sources recycled silk and silk-blend yarn from women’s co-ops in Nepal and India. Their Twist line is a 2-ply silk sport weight — smoother and finer-gauge than the ribbon yarns, dyed in painterly shifting palettes that read like watercolour on the needle.