Yarn review: Heritage Silk
Just before the holidays I was sent some yarn that I had never worked with before. It's from Cascade Yarns out of Seattle Washington. You may have worked with Cascade 220 before, it's an amazing worsted weight wool that comes in array of colors. It's truly hard to beat the color selection.
The yarn I've been working with is called Heritage Silk:
Turns out that this is a wonderful lightweight yarn. The 85% superwash wool is soft and easy to crochet with, and the 15% mulberry silk gives it a very pretty sheen and I believe adds to the lovely drape. This yarn is produced in Peru.
I'm very happy with the stitch definition too. I've found that sometimes 100% wool will obscure the stitches and that can be great, but for this swatch I was doing shells and post stitches and really wanted to see the texture.
Heritage Silk also comes in 48 colors! I was just over at their website looking at the color selection, and it's amazing! Check it out here. I'm using color #5603 for my swatch.
Cascade is sold at yarn shops, so if you want to find one close to you they have provided a store finder on their website.
Here are the yarn details:
I would definitely commit to an entire project from this yarn. It's just so nice to work with (I blame the silk) and the results are amazing. This is a must-have yarn for sure.
That color is awesome. That fabric is really beautiful.
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LOVE the color! If I didn't have too much yarn already, I would buy some.
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Sounds lovely...will check it out!
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I keep a needlework notebook. I will add Heritage Silk to my list of yarns I would love to use. Really enjoy your yarn reviews.
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I follow my radio crew around so I can win things I take my crochet projects with me all the time even at the casino when their doing the cash cube. I meet same nice people and I get some orders also to make things for them.
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