Super Soft Alpaca Blend with Watercolor Effect is a truly luxurious yarn APUANE from RIGO, Italy, featuring a subtle watercolor melange that creates dimensional color. This beautiful blend of 70% Alpaca and 30% Polyamide is super soft, lightweight, and warm, boasting a gentle halo and exceptional drape for truly elegant knitwear.

🧶 Product Specifications:
• Manufacturer: RiGo, Italy
• Article: APUANE
• Fiber Content: 70% Alpaca, 30% Polyamide
• Color: Cream multicolor with watercolor effect
• Yarn Weight: Fingering
• Yardage: 100 gram(3.52oz)≈420 meters(459 yards)
• Formats: Balls (BY DEFAULT) or Cones (PLEASE PURCHASE)
• Origin: Made in Italy

✨ Texture & Feel:
This yarn is incredibly soft and fluffy, offering a luxurious hand feel and a beautiful, gentle halo from the high Alpaca content. The polyamide adds a slight elasticity and durability, ensuring the finished fabric is both resilient and comfortable. It's a very light and airy yarn that works up into a cozy yet elegant garment with beautiful drape.

🧶 A Note from the Knitter
This premium Italian Alpaca blend feels truly special to work with. It is lightweight on the needles, and the finished fabric retains a beautiful loft and warmth without being heavy. The watercolor melange effect ensures automatic depth and nuance in your stitches, resulting in a sophisticated final project.

🧶 Recommended Use:
As a Fingering-weight yarn, APUANE is perfect for elevated, delicate, and cozy projects.
• Garments: Ideal for cloud-soft sweaters, lightweight cardigans, and luxurious garments worn next to the skin due to the Alpaca's superior softness.
• Accessories: Perfect for creating sophisticated scarves, hats, and cowls where the fluffy halo and warmth are maximized.
• Stitch Patterns: Best for simple stockinette, garter, or ribbing where the beautiful color blend and texture of the yarn can be the main feature.

🧶 Knitting with Multiple Strands
• This yarn works beautifully when held with other strands to create a different weight.
• 2 Threads: Creates a Sport/DK weight yarn with an approximate yardage of 210m(230yd) per 100g.
• 3 Threads: Creates a Heavy DK/Worsted weight yarn with an approximate yardage of 140m(153yd) per 100g.

🧶Recommendations for Weaving:
This yarn is an excellent choice for the weft, particularly for creating warm, fluffy blankets, throws, and scarves where its lightness and halo can be fully utilized. The polyamide component also provides enough strength for careful use as a warp in lower-tension projects.

🧶 Recommended Needles & Hooks:
• For knitting with a single strand (creating a Fingering weight), we recommend 2.5–3.5 mm (US 1.5–4) needles. The general gauge is 24–28 stitches per 4 inches (10 cm) in stockinette stitch. Use the smaller end of the range (2.5mm) for a denser, more structured fabric, and the larger end (3.5mm) for a softer, loftier drape.
• For crochet, use hooks in the range of 2.5–3.5 mm (C-2 to E-4).

📏 Estimated Usage:
• Shawl: 100–150g(420–630m/459–688 yd)
• Sweater: 200–400g(840–1680m/918–1836 yd)

📍Care Instructions:
• Hand wash gently in cool water with a mild detergent
• Do not wring or twist
• Lay flat to dry out of direct sunlight