Great Southern Yarn 100% SRS 5-Ply Merino is a plied sport weight yarn made from 100% Soft Rolled Skin (SRS) merino. Each hank contains 100 g of yarn and has a length of approximately 320 m.
Great Southern Yarn has a strong focus on animal welfare, sustainability and ethical values integral in the production of our yarn ranges. Their SRS merino fleece is single origin, sourced from sheep at Mt Bodangora, NSW. SRS (Soft Rolled Skin) Merino is cruelty-free and sustainable as it's sourced from non-mulesed sheep. Their raw fleeces are then exported to New Zealand for scouring at the Canterbury Wool Scours in Timaru, and then, after scouring, sent to Design Spun Mills in Napier.
Peter Chatterton has collectively owned and run the Design Spun Mill in Napier, New Zealand, since the mid-1980s. The product that Peter and his team produce is second to none, with the Worsted Milling Process producing soft, smooth and consistent yarn of various ply’s, twists and thread counts. The fibre is then sent to Great Southern Yarns as naked yarn in large, one-kilogram, three-kilometre-long cones. The cones are then separated into 100-gram hanks for dying and eventual skeining for sale.
Suggested Patterns: Maggie Cardigan by PetiteKnit, Regan Cardigan by Isabell Kraemer,