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Sylph

By Jade Sapphire

Cashmere and linen, together. Sylph creates a fabric that we’ve never seen before.

We just about lost our minds when we came upon this yarn. Like, we spent an hour with the good folks of Jade Sapphire, playing around with combinations, swooshing their samples around like we were trying to take flight, generally losing our cool, completely.

Sylph is the yarn that makes the magical double- and single-stranded stripes in Amy Christoffers’s Shakerag Top in Field Guide No. 6: Transparency. (Please note: pattern not included with yarn.)

Quantity Note  
Sizes S, M, L (finished bust measurements 39″, 44″, 48″): 4 skeins
Sizes XL, 2XL (53″, 57½”): 5 skeins
Size 3XL (62½”): 6 skeins
The color used for the sample is Hush.

Read on, below, for more ideas for patterns that make the most of Sylph’s unique, exquisite qualities.

Cream Cheese and Lox
Jet Stream
Tagine
Eddy
Extinction
Fiddlehead
Grackle
Hush
Loam
Maidenhair
Puddle
Rain Shadow
Rustle
Shades of Brown
Skinny Jeans
Swirl
Tanis Grays
Triberrytops
Zephyr
Clear

$42.00 $37.80

$42.00 $37.80

$42.00 $37.80

Specs & Details

Craft
Knitting
Skill Level
Easy
Fibers
58% Cashmere
42% Linen
Unit Weight
50 g (1.76 oz) each
Yarn Lengths
309 yards
283 m
Yarn Weight
Light Fingering

Cashmere is tender. The tenderest, really.

Linen is sturdy. Extremely sturdy. You can knit up a piano bench cushion and a decade later, it looks brand new. (Yes, that’s a thing we did.)

What makes Sylph so wonderful is that mixing 48% linen with 52% cashmere means that you’re getting a yarn with extreme tenderness and sturdiness.

The light fingering weight means that Sylph is a fine choice for elegant shawls, wraps, and scarves.

Sylph is the yarn of choice for Amy Christoffers’s Shakerag Top in Field Guide No. 6: Transparency. See all the pattern details over at Ravelry, here.

Shakerag Top in Hush

Our friend Ina Braun tested Sylph on the popular Jet Stream Shawl by Heidi Kirrmaier, with splendid results.

If you’d like to take Sylph out for a one-skein test flight, we recommend the Sylph Cowl, a free pattern from the nice people at Jade Sapphire. Look at the beautiful versions of this light and lovely neck soother on Ravelry.

Finally, we think Sylph would be perfect for two splendid projects from MDK March Mayhem 2018:

Assembler by Grace Anna Farrow.

 

Ranunculus by Midori Hirose.

(Really! Go look at the projects and see how lovely Ranunculus looks in a lacy, light yarn.)

Gorgeous ideas for the knitter with a taste for color.
MDK Field Guide No. 6: Transparency
12
Inspiration
4 Elegant Patterns for Sylph, That Elegant Yarn
20
Introducing: Sylph (Sigh!)
9
Projects
Shakerag Top, Marled
43
Projects
Bulletin: I’m Wearing My Shakerag Top
14
Inspiration
Shakerag by Night
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