How to Choose the Right Yarn for Your Knitting

Choosing the right yarn can completely change how a finished piece looks, feels and wears. From softness and drape to gauge and color combinations, yarn plays a central role in every knitting project.

Our yarns are designed to be exceptionally soft, easy to work with and endlessly versatile. Whether you knit garments, accessories or layered pieces, this guide will help you understand how to choose the right yarn, substitute it confidently in patterns and explore the many possibilities created by combining fibers and colors.

What Makes Our Yarn Unique

 

Exceptionally Soft Soft Silk Mohair

Our soft silk mohair is known for its extraordinary softness. It is carefully developed to be among the softest on the market, with minimal itch and a light, airy feel against the skin.

This makes it ideal for knitters who are sensitive to traditional mohair or who want to wear their garments directly on bare skin. The fine fibers create a beautiful halo without feeling heavy, stiff or scratchy, resulting in knitted pieces that feel luxurious yet effortless.

Ivy blouse in Soft silk mohiar held double, colour Olive

Designed to Be Worn Close to the Skin

Because of its softness and lightness, our yarn is perfect for garments worn close to the body. Think sweaters, cardigans, scarves and shawls that you reach for every day.

The yarn adapts beautifully to movement and temperature, creating pieces that are comfortable rather than purely decorative. It is designed to become part of your wardrobe, not something that stays folded away.

Can Our Yarn Replace Other Yarns in Patterns?

In most cases, yes. Our yarn can easily replace equivalent yarns in existing knitting patterns, as long as you pay attention to fiber content, gauge and yardage.

When substituting yarn, always focus on achieving the correct gauge rather than matching the yarn label exactly. Because our soft silk mohair is light and airy, it often works particularly well as a substitute for similar lace-weight or mohair-based yarns.

Swatching is essential when replacing yarn in a pattern. By adjusting needle size and yarn combinations, you can confidently adapt patterns while achieving the desired fabric, drape and fit.

Examples of yarn to switch directly to ours(yardage and features)

KNITS Pure merino <- Sandnes Sunday, Knitting for Olive merino
KNITS soft silk mohair <- Tilia Filcolana, Knitting for Olive Soft silk mohair
KNITS Alpine merino <- Filcolana Peruvian highland wool(in thickness, more rustic than Alpine Merino) 

 

Knitting Gauge and Yarn Combinations

Knitting Our Yarn on Its Own

When knitted on its own, our soft silk mohair creates an airy, lightweight fabric with a soft halo. Depending on needle size, you can achieve anything from a delicate, lace-like structure to a slightly denser fabric with more definition.

This makes it ideal for scarves, shawls and light garments where softness and drape are key.

Pure merino will get you a thin fabric that will move with your body and feel like a second skin. Because it is non super wash treated all the wonderful properties of the merino wool are still there, cooling you down during summer, warming you up during winter.

Alpine merino is our most popular yarn to knit with only the single strand, creates a buttery soft fabric with lovely stitch definition.

Our pattern Knytkragen knitted in Alpine merino Pine forest, needles 5mm

Holding Yarn Double or Combined

One of the greatest strengths of our yarn is how beautifully it works when held together with other yarns. Holding it double adds warmth and structure, while combining it with another yarn creates depth, texture and endless variation.

Soft silk mohair can enhance almost any base yarn, adding softness and a subtle glow without overpowering the original texture.

What Gauge Can You Achieve by Combining Our Yarns

By combining our yarns in different ways, you can reach a wide range of gauges suitable for many types of projects. A single strand creates a light and airy fabric, while holding two strands together or pairing mohair with another yarn allows you to reach thicker gauges commonly used for sweaters and cardigans.

This flexibility makes it easy to adapt patterns and experiment until you find the fabric you love.

 

Endless Possibilities Through Color

Colors Designed to Work Together

Our color palette is carefully curated so that shades naturally complement one another. Whether you prefer subtle, tone-on-tone combinations or stronger contrasts, the colors are designed to harmonize.

This makes it easy to combine multiple shades within a single project without worrying about clashing tones.

  

Mocca is a lovely colour to combine with our different colours of Soft silk mohiar.

A guiding graph to show you how to mix our yarn colours.

Creating Depth by Holding Colors Together

Holding two colors together adds depth and dimension to your knitting. Combining a lighter shade with a darker one creates softness and movement, while pairing similar tones results in a refined, melange effect.

This approach opens up endless creative possibilities, even with simple patterns.

Choosing Yarn Based on Your Project

Sweaters and Cardigans

For garments, combining our soft silk mohair with our another yarn creates warmth, structure and a luxurious feel. The result is a wearable piece that is soft, lightweight and comfortable.

Sweater no 15 V-neck, knitted with two strands KNITS Soft silk mohair colour Mocca, one strand KNITS Pure merino colour Mocca

Scarves and Shawls

Knitted on its own, our yarn Alpine merino and Pure merino creates elegant scarves and shawls with beautiful drape. Perfect for pieces that highlight texture, lace or simple stitch patterns.

Add our Soft silk mohair to the mix for a beautiful halo, also workable in lace structures but you will get a less defined end result.

Sophine scarf knitted in Pure merino + Soft silk mohair colour Olive.

Accessories and Layering Pieces

Hats, cowls and lightweight layering pieces benefit from the softness and adaptability of the yarn, especially when combined with complementary fibers or colors.

 

Common Mistakes When Choosing Yarn

• Choosing yarn based only on color and ignoring fiber content
• Not swatching when substituting yarn in a pattern
• Using yarn that is too stiff or itchy for the intended project
• Overlooking how yarn behaves when held together with others

Avoiding these mistakes helps ensure that your finished project looks and feels exactly as intended. 

When exploring freehand, you don't have to follow any rules, just go with the flow and see there the stitches takes you!

Our Recommended Yarns

Our soft silk mohair is the foundation of our yarn collection. Designed to be exceptionally soft, versatile and easy to combine, it works beautifully both on its own and together with other yarns.

Explore our yarn collection to find the perfect match for your next project.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Is your soft silk mohair itchy?

Our yarn is developed to be exceptionally soft with minimal itch, making it suitable even for sensitive skin.

We have gotten the feedback from customer that are very sensitive to itching, and therefore never knits with mohair, that KNITS Soft silk mohair would be the first one they'd even consider trying.

Can I knit Soft silk mohair yarn on its own?

Yes, it works beautifully on its own for light, airy projects such as scarves and shawls.

Patterns using only Soft silk mohair held single or double, or even triple:
- Cumulus blouse
- Ivy blouse
- Cardigan no. 4 (personal favourite!)

Can I substitute your yarn in existing patterns?

In most cases, yes. Focus on achieving the correct gauge and always knit a swatch.

Examples of yarn to switch directly to ours(yardage and features)

KNITS Pure merino <- Sandnes Sunday, Knitting for Olive merino
KNITS soft silk mohair <- Tilia Filcolana, Knitting for Olive Soft silk mohair
KNITS Alpine merino <- Filcolana Peruvian highland wool(in thickness, more rustic than Alpine Merino) 

Alpine merino really is somewhat of a unique base due to the extreme softness in DK.

Can I mix different colors together?

Absolutely. Our colors are designed to work harmoniously together, making mixing easy and creative.

Mocca & Bark works amazingly together, Mocca and Dimmed mustard is aslo very beautiful!

Wheat goes with all pastel tones.

As you can see, wheat goes very well with other coloured pastel to dimm them down a bit.


Another lovely mix, Sepia with Cold grey.

What needle size should I use?

Needle size depends on the fabric you want to create and whether the yarn is held alone or combined.

By changing the needle size you'll achive different types of fabrics. Follow your pattern and reach out if you need guidance!


Reach out to us if you have any questions!