Description
Malabrigo – Caracol – Fortaleza is a beautiful Plied, thick and thin yarn, 16ply Super Bulky weight, 100% Superwash Merino Wool.
Caracol is a truly unique yarn! We start with a bulky thick-and-thin single made of our delightfully soft superwash merino wool, and then we criss-cross it with a binder thread (either black or white.) Then the yarn is dyed one of our signature kettle-dyed colourways, and: poof! Something unlike any yarn we’ve made before, inspired by a particular style of hand-spun yarn. Caracol knits up into a cozy, fluffy fabric with a ton of texture and visual interest. Simple stitch patterns really let it sing! Check out the beautiful Cobblestone Cowl by Kaye Adolphson which can be made using Caracol.
Great for: Warm winter accessories, big cozy afghans, and a stockinette that’s far from boring.
- 100% Superwash Merino Wool
- 16ply/Super Bulky weight
- 150 grams – 82 metres (approx)
- Recommended Needle Sizes: US 13 – 19 or 9 – 15mm
- Recommended Crochet Hook Sizes: US N/P/15 to P/Q or 10 – 15mm
- Gauge: 9 sts = 4 inches.
- Machine washable, gentle cycle, cold water, do not tumble, dry flat
Be sure to get enough Malabrigo – Caracol – Fortaleza to complete your project since each bag is a different dye lot, and skeins may vary from bag to bag and in some cases the skeins may vary one from the other even within the same bag. To ensure random colour distribution, work from two balls of yarn at once, alternating a few rows from each ball.
Craft Yarn Council is a great website full of useful information including all the standard symbols for crochet and knitting and all the information on what all those symbols on your yarn tags mean, hook and needle conversion charts and more! They also have all the information on Yarn weights including WPI which is very useful if you lost your tag! The other useful website is Yarnsub – great advice on what you can substitute your yarn for in a pattern. Both websites are worth having in your favourites.
A note from Malabrigo Yarns – When they dye their yarns, the same formula is used each time but every batch of yarn is assigned a different dye lot number. The differences from one dye lot to another can be very subtle, or extremely noticeable, specially on variegated yarns. When they assign a dye lot number the main use is to identify which skeins can be labeled and packed together. After our quality control team checks the skeins, they go to the labeling section and then are put in bags of five or ten (depending on the yarn).
