High Country Wool
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Featuring Caretaker Trail
This rustic, unpretentious 100% Merino yarn is reminiscent of hand spun. The next-to-skin softness makes it perfect for hats, cowls, shawls, and sweaters.
100% Merino wool, 2-ply
Worsted weight, 220 yards / 100 grams
Sport weight, 315 yards / 100 grams
Welcome to HCW
At High Country Wool, our mission is to offer exemplary yarns, wool, and home goods made from the finest wools - curated from local and family-owned ranches. Here, you can browse our five staple lines: Sock Plus, Flock, Meadow, Homestead, and Kindred.
Merino + Longwool
The Homestead Line
Blue-Faced Leicester, Border Cheviot, Wensleydale, and Gotland are blended with our Fine Merino to bring you this lustrous worsted wool!
70% Merino wool, 30% Longwool
220 yards / 100 grams, 2-ply worsted weight
SHETLAND LOVE
OUR MEADOW LINE
Our Meadow is a lovely combination of Fine Merino and Shetland, currently offered in sock weight. Perfect for creating heirloom sweaters, hats, mittens, shawls, and all things colorwork & fair isle.
90% Merino wool, 10% Sheltland
460 yards / 100 grams, 2-ply fingering weight
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