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Knitting for Olive Pure Silk

Knitting for Olive

Pure Silk

Pure bourette silk, 250 m per 50 g, 3 mm needles: a dry, cool feel, for summer as well as winter.

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Details

1 · Fingering
Fiber content
100% silk
250 m per 50 g · 500 m / 100 g
Suggested
28 sts × 38 rows over 10 cm
Needles
3 mm
Care
Hand wash, Dry flat
Certifications
OEKO-TEX

Colorways · 44

  • Bark
  • Blood Orange
  • Blue Tit
  • Brown Bear
  • Cardamom
  • Cherry Blossom
  • Coal
  • Copper
  • Cream
  • Dark Cognac
  • Deep Petroleum Blue
  • Dove Blue
  • Dusty Artichoke
  • Dusty Honey
  • French Anemone
  • Haze
  • Hokkaido
  • Ice Blue
  • Lamb's Ears
  • Lemon Curd
  • Mandarin
  • Olive
  • Pea Shoots
  • Peacock
  • Pink Daisies
  • Plum
  • Plum Rose
  • Poppy Blue
  • Powder
  • Putty
  • Quince
  • Raspberry Pink
  • Raspberry Red
  • Rhubarb Juice
  • Soft Blue
  • Soft Peach
  • Sunflower
  • Undyed
  • Unicorn Purple
  • Watermelon
  • Wheat
  • Artichoke Purple
  • Bottle Green
  • Poppy Rose

What to knit with Pure Silk

Rough amounts for an average adult size. The designer opens with this yarn and its suggested gauge, then calculates the exact yardage for your measurements.

Held double (), it knits like a Worsted / Aran yarn: about 20 stitches per 10 cm.

Similar yarns

Same suggested , within 2 stitches per 10 cm, and similar . Knit a swatch before substituting one yarn for another: drape and look can change.