CVM/Romeldale 2.0
Quick Facts Gauge: A woolen-spun, fingering-weight two-ply yarn, CVM/Romeldale 2.0 produces the most stable and cohesive fabric in the 5.5-6.5 stitches per inch range on US 2-4 (2.75-3.5mm) needles. As always, use those numbers as a starting point for your own swatching. Put-up: Arborio 405 yards (370m) Rye 410 yards (375m) Lentil 425 yards (388m) Black walnut 450 yards (411m) Skein weight: 100g / Arborio skeins average 96gSource: Wool from CVM/Romeldale sheep raised in Pennsylvania. After shearing, each fleece was hand-skirted and sorted by color. The fibers were then scoured, sorted again into color groups, picked, carded, spun, skeined, and given a second scour by Anne Bosch at Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Skeins were twisted at the Saco River Dyehouse before being shipped from Biddeford, Maine. About the Breed Yarn Story Swatching The California Variegated Mutant began as a fluke. In 1915, a man named A.T. Spencer attended the Pan-Americ