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What Makes Fingerlakes Yarn Special?

Fingerlakes Yarns are SOFT

The fleeces used in the manufacturing of Fingerlakes Yarns have been carefully selected for their quality and soft handle.

 

Fingerlakes Yarns are ALL- AMERICAN

Fingerlakes Yarns are spun in a small mill in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. They are crafted with pride with U.S. wool.

 

Fingerlakes Yarns are PRE-WASHED

Most mills do not take the time to pre-wash yarns before they leave the mill. All Fingerlakes Yarns (except the Un-Spun line) are presented in their finished form.

 

Fingerlakes yarns are REASONABLY PRICED

Compare the quality, softness and yardage of Fingerlakes Yarns with other domestic and imported yarns, then compare the price. Now add value to quality, softness and yardage and you come out the winner.

 


Some words about Fingerlakes Woolen Mill

Fingerlakes Woolen Mill is located in the Finger Lakes region of New York, just north of Ithaca. It is the only US mill that manufactures angora yarns for the handknitting market in addition to it's wool and wool/silk yarns. Fingerlakes produces carded wool and wool/angora blends for handspinning, felting and other craft uses. Fingerlakes Un-spun™ is the popular brand of pencil roving, also known to some as the "yarn" the Icelandics use in their famous yoke sweaters.

If you would like to learn more about how yarn is made visit our step-by-step description page.


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Fingerlakes SOFT WOOL Yarns

These are 2 and 3-ply worsted weight yarns. Fingerlakes uses Delaine Merino, Rambouillet Merino, and Finn and Merino-cross wool, which are the finest grades of wool grown. All the wool is US produced. Wool yarns take on the character from the breed of sheep used to grow the wool. Start with fine grade wools and you have softness "built in." Fine wools cost more but they knit-up nicer, look better and feel great (no itchy feel ). We offer Fingerlakes "Soft Wool" in natural and dyed colors plus five hand-dyed variegated colors. Color Card

Specifications

2-ply: 4oz. skeins, 295 yards per skein; #6 or 7 needles, 5 stitches per inch; 5 skeins per sweater - $8.00 per skein. Hand-dyed $13.00.

2-ply sweater skein (hand-dyed only): 20oz. skein, 1,475 yards per skein; 5 stitches per inch; 1 skein per sweater - $62 per skein.

3-ply: 4 oz. skeins, 210 yards per skein; #8 needles, 4 stitches per inch; 6-7 skeins per sweater - $7.50per skein. Hand-dyed $13.00


Fingerlakes ANGORA LUXURY

Angora comes from the long-haired angora rabbit (not angora goats - that's mohair). It is wonderfully soft, elegant and luxurious. Ounce for ounce, it is seven times warmer than sheep's wool. Angora Luxury , a 50/50 blend with soft wool, will dress up any garment, giving it instant glamour and a feeling of pure luxury. Fingerlakes uses only plucked angora which ensures that the length of the angora fiber is significant enough to stay part of the yarn and not shed. Color Card

Specification

2-ply: 2oz. skeins; 180 yards per skein; #6 or 7 needles, 5 stitches per inch; 8-9 skeins per sweater - $15.00 per skein.


 

Fingerlakes UN-SPUN™

What is Un-Spun™? In spinning mills Un-Spun™ is called pencil roving. In Iceland, it is called plotulopi, or lopi for short. It is the form yarn takes just before spinning. In Iceland, knitters began using pencil roving as a knitting "yarn" in the 19th century for their beautiful yoke sweaters. Un-Spun™ principal characteristic is that the fibers have not been spun, or twisted around themselves.

Unlike the Icelandic product which tends to be a coarse wool, Fingerlakes' Un-Spun™ is made of very soft, high crimp wool. This not only results in a super soft feel but because of the crimp you get superior strength with a lighter weight strand. This gives the knitter more options in using Un-Spun™.

Un-Spun™ may be used for both hand and machine knitting and crocheting, weaving, and spinning. It can be used to build heavier "yarns" by working with two, three, or more stands, and this can be done with the same color or by combining colors for a unique effect. It can even be used with spun yarn for a unique texture effect. Although not as strong as spun yarn, once you add your stitches you increase it's strength as the fibers wrap around and lock onto other fibers, yet maintain a soft, lofty garment.

Un-Spun™ comes in 23 solid colors of 100% wool (Color Card), 9 rainbow colors (three colors in a repeating sequential order - pictured above) of 100% wool that result in unique garments (Color Card), and 5 colors of a blend of 60% wool and 40% silk (Color Card).

Specifications

1-ply at approximately 2,200 yards per pound (normal use usually calls for using two or three strands together); for 2 strands: #9 needles: 4 stitches per inch or #10.5: 3.5 stitches per inch. Approximately one pound packages can make one sweater. There are three Un-Spun™ cheeses per package. Priced by weight at $25 per pound. You may purchase single slices at $11 each.

Un-Spun™ Rainbow colors are packed at approximately 1lb.4oz. to 1lb. 6oz. with four cheeses per bag. Priced by weight at $29 per pound.You may purchase single slices at $12.50 each.

Un-Spun™ Silk colors are packed at approximately one pound with three cheeses per bag. Priced by wight at $45 per pound or $17.90 per slice.


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Fingerlakes Woolen Mill provides custom processing of fibers from others. From carding to spinning, we can turn your fibers into valuable products or just make it easier for you to use them.


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