Description
Malabrigo Chunky – Rhodesian Ridgeback is one of our classics! We took our Merino Worsted, fattened it up, and plied it to create this squishy treat of a yarn! Chunky’s nice smooth texture and semi-solid colors make it perfect for bulky cables and bold textures – or choose a variegated colorway and let the colors do the work!
Yarn Weight: Bulky/12 ply
Yarn Texture: 3 ply
Meters: 100 grams, Approx 95 meters
Gauge: 14.0 sts = 4 inches
Needle Size: US 10 – 11 or 6 – 8mm
Hook Size: US K-10/13 to M-13 or 6.5-9 mm
Content: 100% Merino Wool
Care: Hand Wash, cold water, dry flat
Be sure to get enough Malabrigo Chunky – Rhodesian Ridgeback 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.