Ito Tetsu, a very fine yarn made of silk wrapped around stainless steel, is unlike anything I’ve worked with before. Silk has its own sheen but the steel glints through and sparkles. The steel means it has absolutely no give or stretch, but you can manipulate the finished stitches by crumpling or stretching. It took a few inches of knitting to get used to working with it
It weighs basically nothing (a 269 yd cone weighs 15 grams) and I’m knitting in garter stitch on size 8 needles to show the yarn’s character. It would look amazing held together with another yarn. Maybe use it to give alpaca some structure and memory.
This is a shop sample for DownTown Knits in Apex, NC. Once I finish it (hopefully very soon!), it’ll be on display there.
White Paw Knits 