Exclusive! Locally grown wool yarn from the Timm Ranch in Solano County, California. Our 2022 Timm Ranch yarn is a beautiful creamy white 2-ply sport weight yarn. I selected 200 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. The fiber is super clean and free of VM. Testing of samples from nine of the fleeces showed an average of 20.4 microns.

Yarn is available on cones and in skeins. Yarn was spun at approximately 1500 yds/lb. The wool was scoured before processing, but the coned yarn has not been washed after spinning. Washing allows the yarn to bloom. When you use coned yarn you need to allow for the changes that happen to the yarn after washing the finished project. The photos show coned yarn at 19 wpi (wraps/inch). Skeined yarn is not under tension and measures 16 wpi. After washing it measures 12 wpi. The skeined yarn for sale has been washed.

I sett this yarn at 8 epi for most weaving projects. Knitting friends say that #5 needles are about right.

YN-TR-22-C Cones weigh 2.5 pounds; approximately 3720 yards; $75/lb=$187.50/cone

YN-TR-22-2 Two ounce skeins; approximately 186 yards; $17/skein.