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Yak yarn
Fine lace weight 100% yak
50 gram skeins - 492 yards-450 meters

Lovely soft chocolate brown - a little lighter then this picture and not shiny
A note of caution. A customer commented that the yarn is very soft and she found it broke a couple times while she was knitting.| It is a very softly spun yarn and as such needs to be handled gently. I just finished knitting with it and did not have any breakage but I can see where it would be easy to do. See below for picture of the shoulder shawl we made with one skein of yak. We used a 3.75mm needle to knit this shawl.

This a a free pattern on Ravelry designed by Aga Paulina
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/simplicity-triangle -shawl.
we made some slight changes to the pattern to accommodate the Yak yarn. We changed the
needle size to a smaller needle 3.75mm /US5 . We just got it out of the 50 gram skein with less then 5 grams left.
 If you are nervous about having enough yarn you could easily take a row or two out of the stockinette stitch rows
without effecting the size or shape significantly. Have fun.

Recommended Needle Size: 2.25 mm (US 2 )  29s x 35r in 4"/10cm
$19.95 a skein

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