By purchasing yarn from String Theory, you’re lifting up a number of small and female-owned businesses. We help women in Rwanda, who survived the genocide, educate a new generation. We help women in Uruguay find meaningful work without leaving their rural homes. We help a family in New Hampshire maintain a mill, a tradition spanning hundreds of years. We help restore the Patagonia Grasslands by encouraging sustainable farming.Every yarn we stock makes a positive impact.
Handspun Hope Angora blend
$69.00
Humanely-sourced from their own flocks of bunnies and sheep, this 50/50 blended sport weight is Handspun Hope's most luxurious yarn yet! This incredibly indulgent fluffiness has a silky and lightweight texture with a halo effect that becomes more apparent as it is handled.
The ladies of Handspun Hope carefully blend and hand spin the fibers into generous skeins of lavish sport weight yarn before it is hand dyed in baths created from primarily native Rwandan plants.
Because their precious supply of angora fiber is limited, so is the availability of this incredible yarn.
- Sport weight
- Tonal
- Approx 100 grams / 3.53 oz
- Approx 230yds
- Hand wash
- Dry flat in the shade
- Do not iron
Pattern Suggestions:
Zuzu's Petals cowl
Penny Gloves
Northbound Mitts
Fallberry Mitts - free pattern
New Haven hat
Best Beret
Nova Scarf - one skein
Timberline Cowl - two contrasting colors
Smooth Sailing - two contrasting colors
Simple But Effective - luxury on your neck
Antiquity Cowl
Rift
Exception - crochet shawl
Toy Bunny - crochet
Woodland Mitts - crochet
Everyday People hat - crochet
Impact
Our goal in creating this fiber was to create an ethically and humanely sourced angora blend. Much of the world's angora is not created in such a manner.
Our rabbits receive the very best possible care. Their spacious custom-created enclosures are imported from the U.S. and they are provided dry and safe shelter, high-protein feed, fresh vegetable snacks twice a day, and a 24-hour caregiver who resides with them. They are gently and carefully sheared every 90 days by our own staff member, a former barber.
Rest assured, we love all of our animals and provide them with the best care so they can produce high-quality raw materials for the ladies working at Handspun Hope.