Yarn Review: Hemp for Knitting allhemp3
A generous 165 yards per skein, Hemp for Knitting’s fingering to sportweight allhemp3, in the pumpkin (022) colorway pictured above, knits up very similarly to 100 percent tightly plied cotton—they’re both plant-based fibers, after all. Because, like 4-ply cotton, the fibers have little give, your hands may start to cramp if you barrel through extended sessions of knitting. (So if you don’t like knitting with most cottons, which I personally don’t, you’re not going to like working with hemp, either, which the joints of my fingers didn’t.)
allhemp3 is a sturdy yarn that can take a fair amount of abuse—unsurprising because of hemp’s reputation for tensile strength—but it isn’t very forgiving of repeated frogging; tufts of fiber will whip about and latch onto your clothing. Strands aren’t perfectly smooth, either, so you’ll get the rare bump in your knitting, though probably not enough to be noticeable.
Blocking made the swatch softer, and the stitches evened out more, though not dramatically. Rated gauge is 7st per inch on size 2 needles.
This review refers to yarn purchased online at Kpixie.com
olive said,
July 17, 2007 at 7:55 am
i love working with hemp — check out the handknit market bags on my blog. i’ve used lana’s hemp (dk weight) for a while now and love it. the hemp is super strong-perfect for bags, and it knits a nice dishcloth that will last forever.
the stitch pattern i use for the bags is easy going on my fingers–i can sit and knit these usually without finger/wrist pain. (so i think it depends on your stitch pattern–straight stockinette will do it to you though.)
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