Noro Kanzashi Slouchy Hat Knitting Kit

Description

Noro Slouchy Hat Knitting Kit
with Kanzashi Yarn
The hat in the main photo is an example of the expected result of knitting this pattern, and is not included with purchase.
In the Fall-Winter 2021 season Noro introduced beautiful kits for hats, shawls, & blankets. This one has the fabulous boucle (French for curly yarn) Kanzashi. It's also fine to use another chunky yarn like Bachi if you check your personal gauge. Our website has single skeins of all your favorite Noro.
This kit includes the following.
1 Jumbo Ball of Noro Kanzashi yarn
A craft brown paper bag
Kit A: One copy of the knitting pattern (no magazine)
Kits B, C, D: One copy of Noro Knitting Magazine #15 in which includes the knitting pattern
Noro Kanzashi Yarn
Fiber Content:
30
%
Mohair
,
30
%
Silk
,
23
%
Wool
,
14
%
Rayon
,
3
%
Nylon (polyamide)
Suggested needle size US 7 to 9
Knits to 3-3¾
sts
/ inch on US 9-11 needles
Yardage: 232 Yards per 150g Jumbo Ball
NOTE
: color variations are a normal design feature of this and most Noro yarns. What you receive may look different on the outside or be a different dye lot than one of the photos, but all colors in the swatch photo will be in the skein.  We will not accept returns based on those color variations, unless you receive a colorway # other than the above.
Kanzashi
is Noro's nod to
iconic
Boucle (curly) yarn which has been in fashion this year. What makes it stand out from the crowd is that Noro used a Mohair base instead of Wool usually seen. He had a 30% Mohair and 30% Silk base with a touch of 23% Wool and a hint at 17% of Poly-Viscose to give it the sheen that it carries. Viscose is a frequent fiber in many Noro Yarns because of
its
texture and
luster
. It takes what might be a flat or boring texture and makes it special.
ABOUT THE NORO BRAND:
Eisaku is an iconic Japanese Fiber Artist. For many years he has taken his aesthetic from the "Colors of Nature". Earth, Ocean, Sky have the hues that mark his colorful creations. He takes seemingly unrelated colors like a pink into green and then a shock of charcoal that one would find strange to combine. Yet it works. The vision is to take the eye from the bottom of the ocean to the tip of a mountain into the sky. So, the emergence of ocean colors of blue and purple with the majestic charcoal to cloudy skies have a certain vibe that works. His fibers were ecologically friendly decades before it was in vogue. Noro's color palate is consistent amongst all his fibers. Some of his most popular lines are created from the natural palates and are blended into merino-silk-cashmere and mohair textures that are elegantly self-striping. The knitter can either control the striping by alternating balls of yarn or work free-form out of one ball and allowing the colors to appear randomly creating "pools" of colors that blend into unexpected surprises. Mrs. Knits like to pool the colors because the joy of "surprise" keeps her knitting just one more row to see the pink pop into a charcoal and the hand of thick vs thin textures that float across her needles with glee.