Cabrito

Cabrito is a gorgeous kid mohair yarn, soft and light as a cloud. It's hand dyed in beautiful colors, with a soft halo and a delicate glow. Knit it by itself to make a super light and textured fabric, or hold it together with your favorite yarns to add texture and color depth to your knits.

Here are some tips for gauge when working with mohair:

• On its own, mohair yarn typically knits at 5-7 stitches per inch on US 3 to 8 (3.25–5.0mm) needles. This gives you a drapey fabric with a soft bloom.
• For a lighter weight fabric, knit at 3-4 stitches per inch on US 8 to 10 (5.0-6.0mm) needles.
• Held together with a fingering weight yarn, they'll work up to the equivalent of a DK weight, around 5–6 stitches per inch.
• Held together with a worsted weight yarn, they'll work up to the equivalent of a bulky weight, around 3.5–4.5 stitches per inch.

Always swatch, and always wash and block your swatch the way you plan to wash and block your finished piece before checking gauge. Mohair blooms significantly when washed.

Our swatches were made by Avery, out of the Lush colorway held double with one strand of 100% superwash DK-weight wool in a natural, undyed white. This is to help show how visible mohair will be against a contrasting color. She used US 6 / 4mm knitting needles and a 4.5mm crochet hook to swatch, and found the yarn was easy to work with and has a nice halo.

All of Manos del Uruguay yarns are hand dyed. The artisans use big kettles heated by wood-fueled boilers, dyeing in small batches creating wonderful colors. The colors of Manos yarns are bright and wild, full of nuances and variations. No two skeins are the same, each one is unique, a testimony of a particular moment.

Due to the small batch hand-dyed process, there may be differences in colors between skeins. Order enough yarn for your project for a better likelihood that skeins will match. Alternate skeins where needed.

All Manos del Uruguay yarns are mulesing-free.