Description
Malabrigo Rios – Arco Iris is superwash, kettle dyed merino wool. Soft, strong, and washable, this 10 ply yarn is our workhorse! The plies help resist pilling and washability makes it fantastic for frequently-worn garments, housewares, and children and baby clothes. And like all our yarns, it’s super soft and great for next-to-the-skin wear! Spun from our premium superwash merino, it comes in an array of watercolour-multi, semi-solid, and variegated colourways. We carry many yarns from Malabrigo and you can see them all Here!
Great for: Accessories, garments, baby and kids items, housewares, toys, cables, textured stitches, colour-work.
Gauge: 18.0 to 22.0 sts = 4 inches
Needle Size: US 6 – 8 or 4 – 5mm
Hook Size: US I-9 to K-10/12 or 5.5-6.5 mm
Be sure to get enough Malabrigo Rios – Arco Iris to complete your project since each bag is a different dye lot, and skeins may vary from bag to bag and in some cases the skeins may vary one from the other even within the same bag. To ensure random colour distribution, work from two balls of yarn at once, alternating a few rows from each ball.
Craft Yarn Council is a great website full of useful information including all the standard symbols for crochet and knitting and all the information on what all those symbols on your yarn tags mean, hook and needle conversion charts and more! They also have all the information on Yarn weights including WPI which is very useful if you lost your tag! The other useful website is Yarnsub – great advice on what you can substitute your yarn for in a pattern. Both websites are worth having in your favourites.
