WH - Le Lambswool B2B

Knitting Needles (suggested)
4.0mm / US6 / UK8
4.5mm / US7 / UK7

Gauge
19-21 sts and 24-26 rows to 10 cm/ 4”

Composition
100% Lambswool (first shearing)
Cross-breads (Merino excluded)

How to wash
Always handwash and lay flat to dry — Handle with care and make sure to stretch your knit to measurements while wet

About Le Lambswool
Le Lambswool is part of our Lambswool family, together with Le Petit Lambswool (Fingering) and Le Gros Lambswool (Aran) - and sits beautifully in between in terms of thickness. It is created and produced in the same Scottish mill, using traditional techniques and craftsmanship. These natural wools and carefully chosen processes result in a fabulous and timeless yarn. It is incredibly light, with a warm softness, while keeping a slightly rustic character thanks to its dry wool feel, which allows the knit to hold its structure and beautiful stitch definition over time. A sweater knitted with Le Lambswool will feel wonderfully light to wear and keep you warm in comfort.

Weight
Classified as a DK (double knit) weight, it is woollen spun, giving it a lofty, airy texture and natural warmth. It has a soft and authentic expression. We recommend knitting it with 3.5 mm to 4.5 mm needles, depending on the desired result. Le Lambswool is perfect for sweaters, cardigans, and accessories.

Colors
Le Lambswool color palette now offers more than 30 beautiful colours. We started with a range of Neutrals and warm Neutrals for a minimalistic and timeless style, and little by little we are expanding the palette with brighter and colorful nuances.

Knots
If you find a knot in your skein, why does it happen?
Our yarn is 100% lambswool, woolen-spun using traditional methods from Scotland and Britain, on a small, artisanal scale. Because woolen-spun fibres travel in many directions — giving the yarn its characteristic softness and loft, and part of why it is so amazing — they can, during the winding process, hook back onto themselves. It has to be cut and re-joined by hand, and as such, creating a knot. This isn't a defect. Because each ball is wound at high speed with one person tending to many cones at the same time, the number of knots can vary — there's simply no way to know in advance. You can treat each one just as you would when changing a skein — join the ends and weave them in. The far great majority of our yarn balls and skeins don't have any knots, but if it happens, this is why. The core of Biches & Bûches is about honouring the natural fibers, the beauty of nature, and manual traditional processes produced specifically, and these can naturally lead to knots.

Behind the Story
When starting to think about a woolen company, Astrid was in search of the yarn she wanted to knit her designs with and to offer in our boutique. She was looking for dry wool for a slightly rustic touch, that reminded her of her trip to Norway in 1995 when she re-discovered the pure wool from the Norwegian sheep, as well as her Scandinavian roots. A yarn that would make a sturdy sweater, to be worn throughout the years. And that rustic yarn would have to be blended with a soft feeling, that felt good knitting with, and of course, that felt good wearing too. She found the wool that she was looking for in Scotland from a fiber mill, for a line of incredible lambswool yarn (first shearings) with the iconic heathered color palette you know at Biches & Bûches - and it has become the heart of our yarn collection and designs.

We hope that you will love it as much as we do!