Jessie Alpaca Lace is a blend of 74% South American baby Suri alpaca and 26% silk. The silk makes up a strong core and the alpaca gives this lace weight an incredibly fluffy and super soft halo, with less shedding than similar mohair yarns. It can be used on its own for lightweight pieces, but it is most popular when held with other yarns to give them a new texture. Try holding it with similar or highly contrasting colors for different effects!

The Black Squirrel is a dyer who’s known for bright, happy colors, and more specifically colors which are UV-reactive and will glow in black light! They’re not glow-in-the-dark on their own, and don’t contain any chemicals as such, it’s just the structure of the dye molecules that reflect more UV light than other colors. The effects you can achieve by using them in colorwork, marling, and plain knitting are super dynamic even in normal light!

Gauge info should always be found on your chosen pattern, because there is some variation in fingering weight yarns and your natural gauge may not be the same as the designer’s. Yarns similar to this one can be knit on a huge range of needle sizes depending on the fabric you want to achieve. So please swatch with the needle size given in your pattern and make sure your gauge matches the gauge given by the author. If you have too many stitches per inch, go up a needle size and swatch again, or if you have too few stitches per inch, go down a needle size and swatch again, until your gauge matches what’s given in the pattern. Never try to get gauge by altering the way you knit, just change needle sizes as needed.