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Yak Yarn

Lang Yarns has come out with yarn made with yak fiber. I had to buy a skein and as it was in one of my older sisters favorite colors, I could justify the purchase as a gift knit. The skein felt a little stiff, not like a cotton but almost like it had some kind of coating on it.

It’s a yak!

 

I knit up a cabled hat alternating six stitch left cables with twisted stitches. The yak feels a little different. It’s not as a soft as some, but it’s not rough like a cotton either. I swear the yarn smells a little gamey, but I could just be taken with the fact that it’s yak. For a one-skein experiment, this was a great investment because the finished product came out beautifully.

2 responses to “Yak Yarn”

  1. Hat No. 7 | The Knit McKinley

    […] Experimenting with hats is a lot of fun. It’s especially fun when it comes to the 500 Hats Project because knowing the hat will be selected by a kid who has hundreds of hats to choose from is really exciting. Knowing that a child will look at my hat and think ‘I want this one’ is a great feeling. It’s also an outlet for playing with stitches, colors and fibers that I might not otherwise. Maybe I like a color or color combination but don’t know anyone who would wear it. Sometimes I have a cable pattern bookmarked and want to try it out on a small project before putting it in a larger project. And since hats only need 100-200 yards of yarn, you can take a small amount of fiber and get a feel for how it knits without investing in a large project (see the Yak Hat). […]

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  2. Hat No. 7 – The Knit McKinley

    […] Experimenting with hats is a lot of fun. It’s especially fun when it comes to the 500 Hats Project because knowing the hat will be selected by a kid who has hundreds of hats to choose from is really exciting. Knowing that a child will look at my hat and think ‘I want this one’ is a great feeling. It’s also an outlet for playing with stitches, colors and fibers that I might not otherwise. Maybe I like a color or color combination but don’t know anyone who would wear it. Sometimes I have a cable pattern bookmarked and want to try it out on a small project before putting it in a larger project. And since hats only need 100-200 yards of yarn, you can take a small amount of fiber and get a feel for how it knits without investing in a large project (see the Yak Hat). […]

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