A beautiful mix of 67% merino wool and 33% organically grown cotton, Plein Air combines the best of both the animal and plant worlds. A totally endearing yarn, it is very soft in your hands and supple on your needles!

• The wool lends body to the yarn so that it’s airy and lofty, while the cotton adds a pleasant weight so that your finished knits hang beautifully. It’s a wonderful yarn for babies and adults, for sweaters and blankets, for absolutely everyone and everything.

• Plein Air knits up into a satisfyingly even fabric that blooms into perfection when you block it.

• A light worsted/DK-weight yarn, Plein Air knits up to 5.25-5.75 stitches per inch. On the lighter side of a medium weight yarn, it’s not too thick and not thin, not too bulky and not too skimpy… In fact, perfect!

• And Plein Air’s colors have a gorgeous heathered quality that comes from the slight difference in how the wool and cotton absorb dye. The palette of over two dozen colors brings to mind a raucous field of wildflowers with an easel set up on its edge, ready for some landscape painting “en plein air!”

• Be sure to check out all of our Plein Air knitting patterns for some great ideas of what to make with this wonderful yarn!

• The wool in Plein Air meets the Responsible Wool Standard, which means it comes from farms that have a progressive approach to land management and follow strict standards for animal welfare, and the cotton is organically grown.

• In addition, the mill that makes this yarn is OEKO-TEX–SteP Certified, guaranteeing processes that respect the natural environment and provide optimum working conditions.