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smeeth | fingering mini-cakes (25g)

sage
4 in stock
£5.25
£5.25
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{smeeth; old English; smooth, level land; marshland; plain}

smeeth | fingering is a 2-ply construction with 450m per 100g skein and we're searching out all the fair isle/Shetland colourwork patterns for this one! It's got the same woollen-spun lofty, airy construction and is just as versatile as its sport weight sibling. We're knitting this on 2.75mm needles to create a warm, dense fabric for traditional colourwork garments but it also knits up beautifully on 3.25/3.50mm needles to a sport weight gauge for an airier, lighter (but still soft and cosy) fabric. 

We're offering this weight ready-to-ship in 25g (approx 112m) mini-cakes making it ideal for stranded/colourwork knits. You can also order 100g skeins dyed-to-order for your perfect main colour/contrast colour combinations.

We've started with ten shades, taking inspiration from lime pickle, hot cocoa, marmalade on toast, steaming bowls of porridge, and more for endless two, three, and four shade combinations for colourwork and stripes, as well as each shade working perfectly on its own...

Non-superwash yarn can require a little more thought and attention to care but the rewards are plentiful! Fibres that haven't been superwash treated tend to have more memory, bite, and structural interest, and the lack of chemical/processing intervention makes them better for the environment.

Alongside the ready-to-ship mini-cakes, we've made all the shades available dyed-to-order as either 25g mini-cakes or 100g skeins, so you can purchase just what you like, in the exact quantities you need, for whatever project you have in mind. Dyed-to-order yarn will be dispatched within 10 working days. We will never mix dye batches without consulting you first...


As with all small-batch, hand-dyed yarn that doesn't have dye lots, we recommend knitting alternate rows from two skeins when working on larger projects to avoid noticeable changes between skeins.

We use professional acid dyes with good light and wash fastness and do our best to exhaust every dye bath and reuse water wherever possible to reduce any further environmental impact. Occasionally a small amount of 'loose' dye may remain in the yarn after rinsing (most likely with deeply saturated shades) and we always recommend hand washing in very cool water and pre-washing your yarn separately if you are intending to mix light and dark shades in a single garment/project.