Island Yarn Company Mixed Natural Merino Cashmere Silk Cotton Linen Fingering Yarn, Mad Ball #370 Heathered Cream Oatmeal

One of Island Yarn Company’s legendary Mad Balls — a fat 190-gram fingering skein wound from whatever luxury ends the shop had on hand when the ball was rolled. Number #370 on the handwritten band: a quiet heathered blend of merino, cashmere, silk, cotton, and linen that reads as a soft oatmeal — cream-warm under daylight, with the faint slubby texture only a true mixed-fibre yarn gives you.

This listing is for the one Mad Ball pictured — ~190 g, ~500 yards by Island Yarn Co.’s usual Mad Ball math, single skein, in pristine destash condition. A real one-of-one: there is no other #370 in the world, and there isn’t going to be another.

About the yarn

• Maker: Island Yarn Company (Falmouth, MA)
• Line: Mad Ball #370
• Fibre: mixed natural — merino, cashmere, silk, cotton, linen
• Colour: heathered cream / warm oatmeal
• Weight class: fingering (works held single, glorious held double)
• Per skein: ~190 g / ~500 yd
• Skeins available: 1 (one-of-one Mad Ball)
• Recommended needles: US 1–4 / 2.25–3.5 mm
• Care: hand-wash cool, lay flat to dry — the cashmere and silk in the blend deserve a quiet wash basin
• Condition: destash, original handwritten band, no flaws noted

About Island Yarn Company. Island Yarn is a tiny, much-loved shop on Cape Cod whose owners gather the loose ends and leftover luxury samples from every spinner and dyer they carried, then roll them into numbered Mad Balls: each one a deliberate surprise, weighed and labelled by hand. Knitters drove from three states away to buy them, and shawl knitters still chase them on destash. This is one of those skeins, intact, original band still tied on.