With over seven years curating The Woolly Thistle's yarn selection and bringing you some of the most special yarns from the UK and beyond, last year we introduced our very own yarn! We are thrilled with this beautiful 100% non-superwash wool yarn that honors the fiber's provenance and potential and now we've added three new colors to the round out the color palette! It's with great joy that we introduce the three newest colors to the Rambler line: Cinnamon Fern, Wild Clover, and Merrybells!
Rambler gets its name from those hardy hill-walkers all over Britain who "ramble" around the countryside either on their own or with other like-minded ramblers. We enjoy imagining all ramblers wearing knits in our sock yarn as they walk paths and traverse stiles while always closing the gate behind them!
Inspired by our love for British breeds, we chose Dorset wool as the base for our yarn. A medium wool with a down-like feel and squish, Dorset wool is springy and bouncy, slightly rustic and wonderfully woolly without being coarse or prickly. Corriedale and Romney give additional softness and strength and a bit of depth as the Romney is a natural gray. Our 3-ply fingering weight yarn is strong enough for socks but versatile enough for a wide array of projects.
Structurally, Rambler Yarn is a 3-ply, light fingering with a twist designed for socks. Of course, it's not just for socks! Some of our favorite knitting is colorwork knitting and we've chosen sturdy breeds with British heritage so Rambler will hold up beautifully in the form of stranded colorwork garments, or in solid colored garments with plenty of texture.
You can purchase your Rambler by the skein here or in one of the beautiful Color Packs that we've put together with 7 skeins. Each Color Pack includes the three new colors, paired with a Natural and three Original colors. We also have the 13-pack available in a Large Color TWT Tote for those who just can't resist the whole beautiful color palette! (We get you!)
Color Pack 1: Natural, Aster, Pine, Lichen, Wild Clover, Cinnamon Fern, Merrybells
We also have some lovely kits featuring Rambler:
Rambler Yarn is not just for socks! Check out these fingerless mitts: It's My Jam Mitts by Virginia Sattler-Reimer
Please remember that every effort is taken to represent the true colors of the yarn and that monitor settings will vary.
My sister-in-law loves it! It's always a pleasure buying from TWT. I am never disappointed.
My sister-in-law loves it! It's always a pleasure buying from TWT. I am never disappointed.
I've completed 2 pairs of socks using 2 different colors of Rambler. I found the yarn somewhat difficult to knit with as it kept twisting and plying in on itself as the strand unwound from the 'cake'. At times the over-plying was so persistent, that the strand had to be unknotted before I could continue knitting. Fast-forward however to the finished, wet-blocked and dried "Rambler" socks. The stitch definition is excellent and more importantly the stitches snuggle perfectly in all directions, creating a strong, even and smooth fabric with no pilling. The end (result) does seem to justify the (extra twist) means!! And no SW or synthetic fiber reinforcement needed here. I am very pleased to revise my initial opinion of your Rambler yarn.
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Feels nice to the touch; reminds me of my stuffed bunny growing up.
My sister-in-law loves it! It's always a pleasure buying from TWT. I am never disappointed.
My sister-in-law loves it! It's always a pleasure buying from TWT. I am never disappointed.