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A Wool Worth Big Needles

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In knitting, there’s really no immediate gratification. Well, let me clarify that: buying yarn and tools is pretty immediate, but the actual knitting takes time. (Unless you have a knitting machine, but that’s a different post!)

Knitting is a process, and that’s what I love about it. The feel of the yarn flowing through my hands, onto my needles, and transforming into fabric gives me great joy, but in general it isn’t a quick process. And that’s fine.

Sometimes, though, we do want—or need—to get something on and off the needles rapidly, for a gift or just because we want a hat! Working on large needles with bulky or super bulky yarn is about as close as we get to a truly fast finish.

Because I believe in transparency, I have to say that I don’t enjoy knitting on large needles. I have small hands, and as I get older, very small and very large needles hurt my hands after knitting for a long time.

On the flip side, there are some yarns that are worth the big needles; for me, that’s Woolfolk Hygge. It’s a sumptuous blend of Ultimate Merino®, Superbaby Alpaca, and mulberry silk. (Ultimate Merino is a tradmarked product from Woolfolk, and it is fab.)

Don’t you want to dive in?

My first encounter with Hygge was in a yarn shop, and I wanted to buy a skein to use as a pillow. Or knit a pillow with it, or a stuffed animal; basically anything I could cuddle. Meghan Babin, a previous editor of Interweave Knits, was as smitten, too. In fact, she was so inspired by Hygge that she designed three patterns specifically for this yarn: a hat, a cowl, and a poncho.

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On Fifteens and Seventeens: A Woolfolk Hygge Collection by Meghan Babin

All three of these patterns are knit on either size US 15 or 17 needles, hence the name of the collection, On Fifteens and Seventeens: A Woolfolk Hygge Collection.

I will dig out my 15s and 17s for these projects, especially that hat!


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