Manchelopis Unspun Yarn is made from 100% wool from the manchega and castellana sheep. This rare and unique yarn is twist-free, creating a delicate knitting experience resulting in an amazingly light yet warm fabric. Wooldreamers has produced this beautiful yarn from sheep from the Manchega Sheep raised in Castilla La- Mancha, Spain and milled in the same area.
BREED: 100% Wool from Manchega Sheep
PACKAGE: ~100 gram plate
FINISH: Unspun
WEIGHT: 252 yds/100 grams, DK
CARE: Hand wash; lay flat to dry.
Manchelopis is delicate because it's unspun, but don't let that put you off. Carefully unwind your wool from the plate (never tug) to knit your stitches before unwinding the next lot. Should your wool break, simply overlap the two ends and twist (spit-splice) them back together and carry on. Once knitted, the yarn is strong yet soft!
Manchelopis is wound into plates with 2 plys, making it a DK weight yarn. It could be separated to knit just 1ply, then doubling your yardage as a Light Fingering weight.
Need some inspiration? Check out these beautiful patterns:
I got this yarn because I had knitted with the Icelandic Plöttulopi before and was curious what a different roving yarn would be like. This is softer and even more breakable, but breaks are easily repaired. The white, at least, seems to have retained a little lanolin--I can feel it in the texture and the wool smells a little "sheepy". After knitting with it for a while, it is lubricating my plastic needles. I won't have the final word on this until the garment is finished and worn, but the fabric looks and feels fluffy, and the stitch definition is good in the textured pattern.
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Kimberly
amazing yarn, beautiful color! so excited to play with it