Exclusive! Locally grown wool yarn from the Timm Ranch in Solano County, California. Our 2021 Timm Ranch yarn is a beautiful creamy white 2-ply sport weight yarn. I selected 230 pounds of the finest wool on the Timm’s shearing day. I skirted fleeces and shipped the wool to Mountain Meadow Wool in Wyoming where it was scoured, carded, and spun. There is a minor amount of vegetable matter in the yarn because Mountain Meadow does not use any chemical process to remove it.

Yarn is available on cones and in skeins. Yarn was spun at 1546 yds/lb. The wool was scoured before processing, but the coned yarn has not been washed after spinning. Washing allows the yarn to bloom and skeins have been washed. When you use coned yarn you need to allow for the changes that happen to the yarn after washing. The photos show coned yarn at 17 wpi (wraps/inch) and skeined yarn at 13 wpi. I sett this yarn at 8 epi for most weaving projects. Knitting friends say that #5 needles are about right. The dyed shawl in the photo is woven of this yarn sett at 8 epi.

I have just added bundles of four skeins of yarn that I use for dyeing with natural dyes or acid dyes. These skeins have not been pre-washed, but the dyeing will give them the “bloom” that washing does.

YN-TR-21-C Cones weigh 2 pounds; approximately 3092 yards; $65/lb.

YN-TR-21-2 Two ounce skeins; approximately 198 yards; $15/skein.

YN-TR-21-1 One ounce skeins; approximately 96 yards; $8/skein.

YN-TR21-1-4 Four one ounce skeins; $30/bundle

YN-TR21-2-4 Four two-ounce skeins; $58/bundle