Louisa Harding Tulla Tweed - Munro (Color #101)

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Tulla Tweed is a modern blend of fibers featuring merino wool & recycled cotton which self-stripes when knitted, and also features a tasteful tweed fleck! It is a chainette construction (the base yarn of Tulla Tweed is very fine - to create a thicker yarn this fine base is braided like an I-cord to create a casing with a hollow center) which creates garments that are lightweight, less likely to pill, and exceedingly warm as heat is trapped inside the hollow core. When designing with a Tulla Tweed, Louisa has applied the rule of working with chainette yarns using a larger size needle than you would for a traditionally plied yarn to create the same gauge – this gives the yarn room to stretch. If you use the same needle size as a traditionally plied yarn the resulting fabric would be too dense. When substituting Tulla Tweed in another pattern it’s very important to swatch, especially if using it for a pattern that uses a more traditionally constructed worsted spun yarn.

Fiber Content: 49% Virgin Wool, 26% Cotton, 13% Nylon, 8% Acrylic, 4% Viscose.

Yardage: 382 yards in each 100 gram skein

Gauge: 4.5 stitches to an inch on U.S. size 10 needles (6 mm)

Weight: Light Worsted.

Care: Hand wash, dry flat.