Leethal.net – Thread Review
Leethal.net‘s yarns are all wool and hand-dyed, coming from recycled sweaters. Depending on the source yarn, they can be stranded or single strand. If you want a different look in wool threads, these threads are an outstanding choice.
I tried out two of the stranded threads and one single strand thread. The stranded could be plied down to work on 18 mesh canvas or left unplied to work on 13 or 14 mesh. The single strand is about worsted weight and so works well on 14 mesh.
Wool yarn, especially ones used for knitting has a characteristic which can make it hard to strand. Wool will felt and this tangles the fibers in each other so that the strands are hard to separate. It can be done, but if you are unfamiliar with doing this, use single ply or unplied yarns.
Another useful tip for working is to use short stitching lengths. Since this is not virgin wool (wool that hasn’t been used for something else), it is slightly weaker than the wool threads you have used before. While this isn’t a problem at all for knitting, needlepoint is much harder on the threads and reused wool may thin out or shred. Although this happened to me when stitching with these threads, I just ended the thread, cut off the thinned parts and started stitching again. It never was much of a problem and would be less with single strand and unplied yarns.
Sometimes I feel as if we get stuck in color ruts. If you are looking for a thread to spark your color ideas and one which is put in skeins perfect for needlepoint, go try Leethal.net yarns, you’ll be glad you did.
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