Lux Adventure Collection Yarn

Lux Adventure Collection Yarn
Gifted By: Darn Good Yarn
Reviewed By: Jeanette Benoit, Editor for AllFreeCrochet.com
 

Made from 100% premium mulberry silk, this Lux Adventure Collection yarn is seriously soft yarn. It's hand dyed and is available in a variety of beautiful colors, including this rich green shade. This light worsted weight cotton is perfect for making a luxuriously soft scarf, hat, or bag. There are various shades of green found throughout the yarn, as it has been hand spun from recycled silk saris. One skein consists of 100grams /100 yards, so one or two skeins is all you need to make something fabulous. It's perfect for knitting, crocheting, weaving, and general crafting. Proper care instuctions for this yarn is to dry clean, hand wash, or wash on a delicate cold cycle.

Darn Good Yarn prides itself on providing you with fairly traded and child labor free yarns. Business decisions are based on these principles — all of their yarn is made from recycled and Earth friendly materials and much of it is created from the colorful remnants of the production of silk saris in Nepal and Northern India. These materials are handspun and dyed by women’s groups in Nepal. Darn Good Yarn provides these women with a marketplace for the products, as well as much needed wages for their families. For more information on Darn Good Yarn, check out their company profile here.