Louisa Harding
Medium
Tulla Tweed
49% Virgin Wool, 26% Recycled Cotton, 13% Nylon (polyamide), 8% Acrylic, 4% Viscose
Available as
100 gram
x 382 yard skeins
Suggested Hook & Needle Sizes
us
10
mm
6
uk
4
hook
J10
Stitches per 4in (10cm)
Knit
18
Single Crochet
11-14
Tulla Tweed is a modern blend of fibres featuring merino wool & recycled cotton which self-stripes when knitted, and also features a tasteful tweed fleck! It is a chainette construction (the base yarn of Tulla Tweed is very fine - to create a thicker yarn this fine base is braided like an I-cord to create a casing with a hollow centre) which creates garments that are lightweight, less likely to pill, and exceedingly warm as heat is trapped inside the hollow core.
When designing with a Tulla Tweed, Louisa has applied the rule of working with chainette yarns using a larger size needle than you would for a traditionally plied yarn to create the same gauge – this gives the yarn room to stretch. If you use the same needle size as a traditionally plied yarn the resulting fabric would be too dense. When substituting Tulla Tweed in another pattern it’s very important to swatch, especially if using it for a pattern that uses a more traditionally constructed worsted spun yarn.
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