Tsubame is a delicious yarn from Noro, wound into a large ball and with a plethora of colors with long color runs.
The yarn is 50% silk/ 25% wool/ 25% nylon -- the high quantity of silk, I suspect, is one of the reasons it feels so lovely running through my fingers. Each ball has 656 yards (600m) per 200g.
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Most Noro yarns are minimally processed so that they might feel a bit rough coming off the skein. I have found that after washing the finished piece, it softens up deliciously. And this yarn with its high silk content is especially marvelous.
Classified as a worsted weight yarn, the plies are tight and the colors are beautiful. Each cake is dyed with long color runs.
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The colorway we offer here is really strikingly lovely. Called Oyama (colorway #11), it is a cool melody with mostly varying purples and blues, and some teal as well.
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Just to give you some ideas of the types of projects you could knit with this:
I took one ball in a different colorwayand began to knit it in a scarf-sized version of Tuck Stars by Ute Nawratil . You can see my progress in the third photo on this page. The fourth photo shows a very similar yarn, knit in Jelly Roll by kieranfoley.