Yarn review - Amelie by Illimani - Crazy for Ewe

Amelie Yarn from Illimani Amelie is one of the loveliest yarns I've ever seen.  . You will often hear me say that softness and durability are on opposite ends of one spectrum. Extremely soft yarns, are often a bit fragile.  Temperamental even.  Especially alpaca and silk yarns. But Amelie is different. She’s the beautiful yarn that’s nice to work with.  Easy going and versatile. Who doesn’t love that?!? What kind of yarn is Amelie? Amelie is one of the modern construction yarns I talked about in this blog post. They start with a fine strand of silk that’s knitted into an i-cord.  Then the take alpaca fibers and blow them into the tube.  The silk tube, like all knitted fabric, has space between the stitches where the soft alpaca make their way just barely through the silk.  Touching Amelie is

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56% Mulberry Silk, 40% Baby Alpaca, 4% Merino., AMELIE is the most luxurious, softest and lightest yarn in the world. It is impossible to describe it

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Mulberry Silk + Baby Alpaca + Merino. AMELIE is the most luxurious, softest and lightest yarn in the world. It is impossible to describe it with

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