Description
Merino Cotton No.5 is a high-quality blended yarn that combines the best properties of merino wool, cotton, and polyacrylic.
The fine merino content ensures a soft feel and pleasant warmth, cotton provides breathability and skin-friendliness, while polyacrylic makes the yarn dimensionally stable, easy to care for, and durable.

Highlights:

• pleasant merino softness combined with light cotton
• very good temperature and moisture regulation
• dimensionally stable, hard-wearing, and easy to care for
• even, fine stitch definition
• ideal for patterns, textured knits & clear lines
• glides easily over the needle

Care instructions

• Special gentle cycle or wool/delicate wash at max. 30 °C
• Liquid delicate or wool detergent
• Do not use fabric softener
• Dry knitted items flat on a towel and gently pull into shape
• Do not dry in direct sunlight
• Do not tumble dry
• Do not iron
• Professional dry cleaning possible

Technical data

Composition:
20 % virgin wool (merino)
40 % cotton
40 % polyacrylic

Weight/Yardage:
50 g = approx. 158 m

Needle size:
2.5 – 3.5 mm

Gauge:
36 stitches × 40 rows = 10 × 10 cm

Presentation:
hand-wound balls

Note: the yarn is cabled, which means that the individual threads lie next to each other and are not twisted. If a small loop forms, simply pull a few meters of yarn from the ball and the loop will usually return to the thread path; if not, it can be easily knitted in.