Name: Skein Sisters
Address: 721 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill, NSW, 2203, AU
Telephone: 02 9554 7444

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!

Our own hand-dyed merino and silk yarn – a single-ply 4ply that's beautifully soft, with a gentle shimmer from the silk. Julia dyes it in our studio behind the Dulwich Hill shop, in shades from soft pastels to rich jewel tones. As Maria in our shop put it, "It's next level!"

Soft with a sheen: 80% Australian extra fine superwash merino makes it a delight to work with, and 20% silk adds a luminous sheen.
Drape and definition: the single ply gives lovely drape and crisp stitches, whether you're working lace, brioche or plain stocking stitch.
Warm but breathable: the merino brings the warmth and the silk keeps it light, so it suits a cosy winter scarf or a shawl for a summer evening.
Great for: shawls, cowls, scarves, cardigans and other garments – knitted or crocheted.

Hand-dyed in Australia

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

Good to know: every skein is unique, so for a bigger project buy all your skeins together and alternate them every couple of rows.

Shipping: if your order includes dyed-to-order yarn, we'll hold everything and send it together once your yarn is ready. Want your other items sooner? Just put them in a separate order. Picking up in store? Wait for our SMS to say your order is ready.

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 $175 until 30 November 2026
Orders under $175 – $13.50 (Standard) or $19.95 (Express)

NEW ZEALAND
FREE shipping on orders over $175 until 30 November 2026
Orders under $175 – $17.50 (Standard) or $23.95 (Express)

Excludes oversized items, all amounts in AUD

INTERNATIONAL
Postage cost will be calculated at Checkout
We are currently unable to ship to the US, the UK, Canada or EU countries

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

My favourite yarn shop

Skein Sisters is my favourite yarn shop. The staff are so knowledgeable and helpful, the yarns are gorgeous, and ordering online is so easy. Great website and delivery was next day to regional NSW. So good!

We can't believe that you got your yarn the next day when you're in regional NSW – how fabulous! We're thrilled to be your favourite yarn shop.

Deb & Janine and the Skein Sisters team

I was so excited to receive my order

I was so excited to receive my order. They look great and I can’t wait to start my knitting

Thank you Sabrina! Romance is one of our favourites, so we love that you're excited to get started. Happy knitting!

Deb & Janine and the Skein Sisters team

Excellent wool Excellent

Excellent wool
Excellent service

Thank you Susan! We're so glad you're enjoying Romance – it's one of our favourites too.

Deb & Janine and the Skein Sisters team

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

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.