Knit It Up Yarns Merino Wool Silk Fingering Yarn, Sleeping Beauty

A single 100 g skein of Knit It Up Yarns' Silky base in <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> — a hand-painted forest-floor palette of olive-green and golden brown shot through with bursts of rose-pink, peach, and dusty mauve. The 30% silk content gives the skein a quiet sheen that an all-wool fingering never picks up — visible in the rose-pink stretches where the silk catches light. Original hand-written hangtag intact.

This listing is for 1 skein of Knit It Up Yarns Silky in color Sleeping Beauty.

About the yarn:

Silky is Knit It Up Yarns' 70% merino / 30% silk fingering base — a 2-ply yarn, 440 yards in a 100 g skein, with the soft drape and luminous sheen that the silk content adds to a merino base. The fibre blend takes saturated hand-paint dyework without the colour going muddy, and the silk threads read as quiet highlights in the knit fabric — particularly visible in the lighter stretches of a multi-tonal colourway like this one. Gauge sits at 7–8 sts/inch on US 1–3 (2.25–3.25 mm). Yardage is enough for a shawl, a deep cowl, or a pair of light fingering-weight socks (the silk content does soften the wear, so reach for these on slipper socks rather than everyday hiking pairs).

• Fingering weight
• Composition: 70% merino wool / 30% silk
• Weight: 100 g
• Yardage: 440 yds
• Needle: 2.25–3.25 mm
• Construction: 2-ply
• Care: Hand wash cold, lay flat to dry

About Knit It Up Yarns Silky:

Knit It Up Yarns is a small indie hand-dye studio (knititupyarns.com / Etsy, with the studio's mascot tag on every band) working in small batches across a handful of merino and merino-silk fingering bases. The studio paints in saturated multi-tonal palettes — forest-floor neutrals, sun-pink fruit colourways, dusty botanical greens — and the dye work shows the hand-painted technique: variegation that breaks across the strand rather than long colour repeats. The Silky base is the studio's silk-blend fingering and is the one Knit It Up reaches for when the colourway needs the extra luminance silk brings. <em>Sleeping Beauty</em> is one of the small-batch releases; the band marks it retail $22 from the studio, and this skein is in original-twist condition with the hand-written hangtag still attached.