Loft Yarn | 100% USA-Grown Targhee-Columbia Wool COVER

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Loft Yarn

Almanac: Bluewater sailing. This seafarer’s blend of three blues is shaded with black and enlivened with a few frisking whitecaps.

Artifact: Late summer in a conifer forest. Our darkest and earthiest green is a blend of black, yellow, olive, and brown, touched with white and navy.

Bale: Summer hay meadows. Bale is a gentle, pale, straw gold touched with brown and rust.

Birdbook: The world beneath the Amazon canopy. A smoky, complex middle green containing both warm and cool elements, Birdbook is a jungly mix of olive, black, and green shot with parrot streaks of yellow, red, and navy.

Blanket Fort: Twilight on the porch swing. Blanket Fort is a nostalgic cool lavender with hints of navy, purple, and red.

Button Jar: Mallard’s plumage. Button Jar is a playful but sophisticated teal of bright blue and green muddled with brown and black and then deepened with olive and yellow.

Camper: Red dawn streaked with wisps of cloud. Camper is a soft red, heavily frosted with white and revealing hints of rust, purple, and grey.

Cast Iron: Moonlight on the water. Cast Iron is black grizzled with luminous white.

Cinnabar: Poppy red. This fiery vermilion is lit with orange, rust, a touch of calmer camel, and just a few wisps of black.

Embers: Fox fur gilded by late sunlight. Embers has a ground of rust burnished with red, brown, orange, and yellow.

Faded Quilt: Riffles in the lake. Faded Quilt is a smoky blend of blues with white, brown, and grey.

Flannel: Work-worn denim. This comfortable color is a mixture of blues distressed with white, black, and a touch of grey.

Foothills: Prairie haze. Fields after the harvest. Foothills is a mild sage green comprising white, grey, and yellow shaded with black.

Fossil: Stags’ velvety antlers. Fossil is white warmed with a whisper of brown.

Hayloft: Harvest time amber gold. Hayloft is yellow caramelized with brown and garnished with orange and olive.

Homemade Jam: A syrup of mixed ripe berries. Homemade Jam is a cool red tempered with blues, purple, black and brown.

Iceberg: Glacial horizons on a clear summer day. Iceberg is a pale icy blue that radiates a cool, cheerful brightness.

Long Johns: Woodsmen’s flannel shirts. Long Johns is a shadowy crimson tinged with brown as well as black.

Old World: An Impressionist’s starless night. Old World is a meld of black and navy grounded with a touch of grey and brown and shot through with bright blue and a frisson of red.

Plume: Inky, regal purple; a symphony of black, purple, and navy with undertones of red.

Postcard: The pearly first light of winter dawn. Postcard is a gentle newsprint grey lit with flickers of red.

Pumice: Coastal cairns. Foggy shorelines.

Pumpernickel: Good earth. This mix of black and brown is richly dark and warm, like a strong cup of coffee.

Sap: Green-gold tree frogs in full spring chorus. Sap is built on a base of yellow shot with olive, bright green, orange, and brown.

Snowbound: Gathering clouds.

Soot: Salt and pepper in equal measure.

Stormcloud: The river at flood stage. Stormcloud is a dusky blue-brown blend of grey, brown, white, and a peppering of navy.

Sweatshirt: Flakes of ash from last night’s campfire.

Tartan: The green and blue of the banks and braes. This dashing peacock hue melds all our blues with teal and a shading of black.

Truffle Hunt: Sleek seals’ fur reflecting the waves. Truffle Hunt is a milky brown shaded with black and navy.

Woodsmoke: Weathered driftwood. A gentle blend of white and brown.

Yellowstone: Warm moss agate, freshly collected from the river valley. Yellowstone blends many a warm shade of gold, rust, and umber in an organic harmony that exudes a beguilingly rustic appeal.

Loft Yarn

Caribou: Barn Owl and Fossil entwine in a warmly glowing marl.

Narwhal: Fossil and Sweatshirt combine in a medium-value marl with warm and cool currents.

Newsprint: Cast Iron and Fossil twist and shout in high contrast. Fossil’s light heathering of brown gives a warm cast to this graphic marl.

Loft Yarn

Product description

Shelter’s smaller sibling, Loft is a 2-ply fingering weight yarn, gently woolen-spun from soft, springy American Targhee-Columbia wool. This distinctive spinning process gives Loft a unique bounce and airiness, with a handcrafted, heathered finish. Ideal for lightweight garments and accessories, lace, and nuanced colorwork. Handle gently while knitting, then wet block to see Loft bloom into full beauty.

Q: Why are some Shelter, Loft, and Quarry colors sold out?

A: The closure of our long-time production partner G.J Littlewood & Son in late 2021 left us unable to stock dye unspun wool for our iconic heathered colorways of Shelter, Loft and Quarry. After months of hard work by our team and new dyehouse partner Tintoria Piana US, heathers are making a comeback!

Read our post The Road To Restock to learn more.

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Loft Yarn

Fingering Weight

275 Yards
American Targhee-Columbia wool

Color

$16.75 /50g Skein Regular price

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Product description

Shelter’s smaller sibling, Loft is a 2-ply fingering weight yarn, gently woolen-spun from soft, springy American Targhee-Columbia wool. This distinctive spinning process gives Loft a unique bounce and airiness, with a handcrafted, heathered finish. Ideal for lightweight garments and accessories, lace, and nuanced colorwork. Handle gently while knitting, then wet block to see Loft bloom into full beauty.

Q: Why are some Shelter, Loft, and Quarry colors sold out?

A: The closure of our long-time production partner G.J Littlewood & Son in late 2021 left us unable to stock dye unspun wool for our iconic heathered colorways of Shelter, Loft and Quarry. After months of hard work by our team and new dyehouse partner Tintoria Piana US, heathers are making a comeback!

Read our post The Road To Restock to learn more.

Read our color descriptions

Share on social #LoftYarn
Specs
- 275 yards (251 meters) | 50 grams | Fingering weight
- 2-ply woolen-spun construction
- 23-24 micron Targhee-Columbia wool from Wyoming
- Wool scoured at Bollman Industries in Texas
- Stock dyed at Tintoria Piana U.S. in Georgia
- Spun & finished at Harrisville Designs in New Hampshire
100% developed, sourced, processed, dyed and spun in the USA.

Fiber Characteristics
We source Targhee-Columbia wool from Wyoming to make Shelter, Loft, and Quarry – this breed’s lofty, warmth-trapping fleeces deftly combine the softness and elasticity of finewool Targhee with the robust substance and warmth of mediumwool Columbia. This fiber’s versatile mingling of wearability and durability particularly shines in woolen-spun yarns and is wonderful for next-to-skin wear, outerwear, and heirloom pieces for the home.
Learn more about the woolen-spun process and get tips for working with woolen-spun yarns.
Dye Process
To create each colorway of Loft, we combine brightly dyed hues of unspun wool in precise proportions, as if mixing paint. When spun into yarn, these saturated solids meld into complex and beautiful blends that give vibrant depth to even the simplest knitted fabrics. The entire palette is created from a handful of base colors, ensuring harmonious coordination in colorwork projects or when pairing hand knitted garments and accessories.
Gauges
As a result of its airy woolen-spun construction, Loft works well at a wonderful range of gauges:
- 6 - 8 stitches to 1"
- Suggested Needle: 2 - 3.5 mm (US 0 - 4)
- Suggested Hook: 2.25 - 4 mm (US B-1 - G-6)
Care
Loft is a handcrafted product. For best results, we recommend alternating skeins when joining in a new skein for even color distribution.
When you need a little more tensile strength, whether for seaming or because you’re about to put a group of stitches under pressure with a big cabling maneuver, simply twirl your working yarn a few revolutions in the direction of the ply twist to strengthen it.
For extra durability, you may wish to seam your Loft projects with a worsted-spun yarn like Peerie. Our 10-gram Discovery Skeins are a great option for seaming.
Wet-Blocking
1. Fill a sink or basin with cold water.
2. Submerge the fabric in water, gently squeezing out any air bubbles so that the piece can remain under water without being held there.
3. Soak work for 15 minutes, allowing fabric to become completely saturated.
4. Remove excess moisture by rolling your fabric between clean, dry towels with light pressure.
5. Lay fabric flat and shape to air dry.
For more detailed instructions, visit our Blocking 101 tutorial.
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