Skein Sisters Romance

Why you'll love it

Fall in love with Skein Sisters Romance! Combining the softness of merino wool with the elegance and sophistication of silk, Romance is a beautiful single ply fingering weight yarn that will take your breath away. Plus, the colours are truly exquisite. As Maria, one of our staff exclaimed, "It's next level!"

With its irresistible feel, Romance offers a sensory experience for both knitters and wearers alike. The 80% Australian extra fine superwash merino ensures a heavenly softness, making it a delight to work with, while the 20% silk adds a touch of opulence and a subtle shimmer to your creations.

Whether you're making a cosy scarf for winter or a lightweight shawl for a summer evening, Romance provides the ideal balance of warmth and breathability from the Australian merino while the silk adds a luminous sheen.

Perfect for knitting or crochet, Romance is wonderful for garments, accessories, shawls, cowls, scarves and more. It looks amazing whether you're creating intricate lace, beautiful stocking stitch, brioche or any other stitch patterns, and the single ply construction adds drape and amazing stitch definition.

What really sets Romance apart is the exquisite palette of colours, all dyed by hand at our studio in Dulwich Hill, just behind our shop. From soft pastels to rich jewel tones, each shade is carefully selected to create a sense of wonder.

Cast on your next project with Romance and you'll discover your next favourite yarn!

Hand-dyed in Australia

As a hand-dyed yarn, each skein is unique. While we take great care to ensure consistency across dyelots, we recommend alternating skeins when working on larger projects.

Skein Sisters Yarns are hand-dyed in Dulwich Hill in Sydney, Australia on the country of the Bedigal, Wangal and Kameygal people of the Eora Nation.

Important Shipping Note: Items ordered with dyed-to-order yarn will be held and shipped together once your custom yarn is ready. If you’d like your other items sooner, please place a separate order. If you select Store Pick Up at checkout, please wait until you receive our SMS to say your order is ready to be picked up.

Specifications

Composition

80% Australian extra fine superwash merino wool
20% silk

Skein weight

100g

Yarn length

360m (394yds)

Yarn weight

4ply (Sock/Fingering)

Needle size

2.25mm - 4mm (US 1 to 6)

Hook size

2.25mm - 4mm (US B-1 to G-6)

Care guide

Hand wash preferred, dry flat, do not tumble dry.

Hand dyed

Each skein is unique so we recommend alternating skeins when you work with it.

Need More?

Are we running low on the colour you've got your heart set on? Good news – all our colours can be dyed just for you. If you need more than we're showing as available, just enter the amount you need and it'll automatically change to the 'dyed-to-order' option (and flick back again if you lower it). You'll see when it's due to be ready, so you know what to expect.

Rather talk it through? Call us on 02 9554 7444 and we'll do our best to help.

Yarn Weight vs Yarn Ply

"Ply" technically refers to the construction of the yarn. It's the number of strands that are twisted together to make a single piece of yarn. While "ply" historically related to the thickness (or weight) of the yarn, today's spinning technology means that the number of plies doesn't always correspond directly to the thickness of the yarn.

However, in some countries, including Australia & the UK, the numbering system of yarn ply still refers to the thickness of the yarn, so it's possible to have a single ply 4ply yarn! - this means that the yarn is constructed of a single ply, but has the traditional thickness of a 4ply sock / fingering yarn).

For more information, please refer to our Hook, Needle & Yarn Guide and our blog A Quick Guide to Yarn Weights.

Happiness Guarantee

We want you to love your new yarn! We accept returns within 90 days of your order being dispatched on stock items.

All return items must be in resaleable condition, unless it was faulty or damaged.
It must be in its original packaging and unopened.
We cannot return yarn if it has been wound from a skein into a ball.

Please see our Returns Policy for more details.

Shipping & Pickup

AUSTRALIA
FREE shipping on orders over $200
Orders under $200 – $13.50 (Standard) or $17.50 (Express)

NEW ZEALAND
FREE shipping on orders over $200
Orders under $200 – $14.95 (Standard) or $23.95 (Express)

Excludes oversized items, all amounts in AUD

INTERNATIONAL
Postage cost will be calculated at Checkout

For more details, see our Shipping Policy.

Store Pickup

We offer a Store Pickup service which you select at checkout. When your order is ready for you to pick up you will receive a notification via SMS. We hold store pick ups for 14 days.

Customer Reviews

Lovely yarn

i bought 2 skeins of this gorgeous yarn. the silk in it gives it a lovely sheen and the merino will make it very warm. I am making a shawl. unfortunately, being a first-time user of a skein, i did get the first skein in a very big knot. took me quite a few nights to untangle. next skein will be wound properly!

Project Inspiration

Projects featuring Skein Sisters Romance

Shake it up

by Anna Johanna

Alpine Bloom

by Caitlin Hunter

Lucinda Shawl

by Annelies Baes

Venezia Shawl

by Joji Locatelli

Basilica Shawl

by Justyna Lorkowska

Westknits Go Go Dynamo Kit in Romance

Krisanteema Shawl Kit

Ranunculus Sweater Yarn Kit

The Frank Shawl Kit

SSP (slip stitch party) Shawl Kit

Intermission Shawl

Shake It Up Shawl Kit in Romance

About

Skein Sisters Yarns

Our own yarns were part of the dream from the very beginning – we always wanted a range that was truly ours. It started with Julia. She'd trained in fine art and printmaking, and one day we sent her off to a dyeing course on a hunch – she came back with colours so lovely we could have put them straight on the shelf. So we gave her a budget and six months to play, experiment and find her palette, and in January 2023 Skein Sisters Yarns was born.

Julia hand-dyes every skein herself in small batches – never more than eight to sixteen at a time – so each one carries that gentle depth and variation you only get by hand. What began in the kitchen of our office now happens in her own dedicated studio, tucked into the old beautician behind our shop.

We dye onto our own exclusive bases, milled for us from Australian merino, and we're slowly growing the range – we can never resist a luxurious fibre like silk. The palette has grown past 140 colours, always shifting as we retire old favourites and dream up new ones, with special shades and limited editions along the way.

Best of all, every colour can be dyed to order – so you can have almost any shade on almost any base, coloured especially for you.

Skein Sisters Yarns are hand-dyed in Dulwich Hill in Sydney, Australia, on the country of the Bedigal, Wangal and Kameygal people of the Eora Nation.