As we get down to the end, I start to feel like I'm repeating myself and so I write less and less..
Merino is lovely. It is soft, full of incredible amounts of lanolin, and packed with elastic crimp. After being carefully washed, it combed easily and spun as if it were leaping into yarn from my fingers without any real guidance. And in both the woolen and worsted yarns, it created an extremely similar yarn to the Polwarth.
This Merino is a slightly richer brown than my Polwarth sample. But unless you look closely, it is easy to mistake one for the other.
Despite all the other wonderful qualities of the various samples, I think Merino is my favorite. I might choose a different wool to bring out different qualities in the yarn I want, but for pure pleasure I will reach for Merino every time.
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