A beautiful and chunky blow yarn made from a combination of baby alpaca, merino wool and pima cotton - DROPS Wish is soft, fluffy and absolutely itch-free.
Cosy, light and airy - just like DROPS Air - and with a thickness similar to DROPS Snow, DROPS wish is the perfect choice for trendy slipovers, cosy sweaters and chunky accessories like hats, cowls and scarves.
Content: 50% Alpaca, 33% Cotton, 17% Wool
Yarn Group:
E (9 - 11 stitches)
/ 14 ply / super bulky
Weight/length: 50 g = approx 70 m
Recommended needle size: 9 mm
Knitting tension: 10 x 10 cm = 10 sts x 14 rows
Care: Hand Wash, max 30°C / Dry Flat
/ Feltable (See more)
Made in: Peru / EU
Raw material origin: Alpaca and wool from South America, cotton from India
Read more about our products' sustainability here
Unfortunately, no store in your country has this yarn in stock. Click here for a list of international stores shipping to your country.
Unfortunately, no store in your country has this yarn in stock. Click here for a list of international stores shipping to your country.
Unfortunately, no store in your country has this yarn in stock. Click here for a list of international stores shipping to your country.
Hand Wash, max 30°C / Dry Flat
See the washing symbols explanation chart
Take a closer look at the yarn and see how a knitted sample looks in this video:
Many of our yarns can be combined together to get a different tension, texture or feel. Here's a few combination ideas to inspire you.
See how this yarn looks before and after felting:
Needles: 8.00 mm
Before: 11 sts x 15 rows
After: 18 sts x 26 rows
1) What type of fibers make the DROPS yarns?
Yarn can be made from a large number of natural and synthetic fibers. DROPS carries mainly yarns made from wool, cotton, alpaca, linen, mohair and silk. Each fiber type has its own qualities, and they are often mixed to take advantage of the best properties of each one. Coarse yarn has the advantage of being stronger and more durable, and finer fibers offer more softness and comfort. Here a bit about the main fibers we carry:
Alpaca:
Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca, and it is similar in structure to sheep wool fiber. Its softness comes from the small diameter of the fiber, similar to merino wool. It is a soft, durable, luxurious and silky natural fiber. Yarn made from alpaca fibers does not felt or pill easily, and it can be light or heavy in weight, depending on how it is spun. While similar to sheep’s wool, it is warmer, not prickly, and has no lanolin, which makes it hypoallergenic. Alpacas come in 22 natural colors, with more than 300 shades from a true-blue black through browns-black, browns, white, silver and rose-greys.
Mohair:
This fiber comes from the Angora goats, and it's considered a luxury fiber. Mohair yarn is warm as wool, but much lighter in weight; it is durable, dyes well and does not felt easily. Mohair fibers have also a distinctive luster created by the way they reflect light. Despite being a hard fiber, mohair is usually spun into a very fluffy yarn, resulting in airy and lustrous garments.
Wool:
The wool fibers come from the skin of sheep and are relatively coarse fibers. Two striking characteristics of wool are its susceptibility to heat and its felting property, which is caused by the scales on the surface. Depending upon the breed of sheep, the appearance of the wool varies.
Wool from Merino sheep is considered the finest type of wool, having as characteristics that is finely crimped and soft. All the Merino wool in the DROPS yarns has its origins in South America, coming from sheep that have not been subject to Mulesing.
Pure new wool is wool made directly from animal fleece, and not recycled from existing wool garments.
Machine washable wool is wool treated chemically to minimize the outer fuzzy layer of the fibers, and be therefore fitable for machine wash (see Superwash).
Silk:
The silk fiber is a fine continuous fiber produced from the cocoon of a moth caterpillar known as the silkworm. While silkworm is cultivated, the wild or tussah silk is obtained from uncultivated silkworm cocoons. Silk fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers and makes a wonderful knitting yarn. It blends really well with other fibers, especially wool. Silk also dyes beautifully with natural dyes.
Vegetable fibers:
There are several varieties of vegetable fibers, found in the cell walls of plants or vegetables. Of all the varieties, two are recognized as major knitted or textile fibers. They are cotton and linen.
Cotton is the fiber surrounding the seeds in a cotton pod, and it is almost pure cellulose. Cotton is usually white in color but there are green and brown varieties as well. The cotton fiber is most often spun into yarn or thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile that is good for summer clothing and accessories, making a weaker yarn than silk or linen but stronger than wool.
Mercerized cotton is cotton that has been through a mercerization treatment. This treatment gives cotton fabrics and threads a lustrous yarn that is more lustrous than conventional cotton. It is also stronger, takes dye a little more readily, makes the yarn more resistant to mildew and reduces lint. It also may not shrink or lose its shape as much as "regular" cotton.
Linen is a fiber derived from the stalk of the flax plant that is durable and stronger than any other fiber. The linen fiber is relatively soft, straight and lustrous and becomes more beautiful with age. Linen is more comfortable to wear in hot temperatures than cotton, due to the fact that it absorbs moisture better and dries more quickly.
Other materials used in our yarns include synthetic fibers such as acrylic, viscose, polyamide (nylon) and polyester. These fibers are used mostly to give strength to a yarn (like our sock yarn, DROPS Fabel) or a special kind of structure (like our blown yarn, DROPS Air).
The polyamide fibre, commonly known as nylon, is very strong, durable, lightweight, easy to care for (can be machine washed and dried), and elastic, which makes it perfect for blending with other fibres to produce hard-wearing yarns like sock yarn.
Compared to polyester, polyamide is softer and more flexible, but it also absorbs more water and dries slower.
3) What type of information can I find on the DROPS yarn labels?
All DROPS yarn labels include information about fiber content (wool, cotton, etc.), weight in grams and ounces, length in meters and yards, washing instructions and symbols (explained here), color number, dye lot number and yarn group information.
4) What are the DROPS yarn groups?
All DROPS yarns are classified into 6 different thickness groups (A to F). Yarns in a same group have similar knitting tension/gauge, and can therefore be interchanged in patterns; however the length may be different, so when substituting always calculate the amount of meters/yards needed for the pattern to know the amount of yarn you need to get.
5) Can I use a different yarn than the one mentioned in the pattern?
Yes, as long as the yarn can be worked in the same knitting tension/gauge. Always swatch to make sure you get the same number of stitches in width and rows in height as given in the pattern.
Remember that different yarns with different textures, will give the garment different looks. The yardage/length may also be different, so when substituting always calculate the number of yards needed, in order to know the amount of yarn you need.
Read more about how to calculate the amount of an alternative yarn - and how to replace 1 thread of a yarn with 2 or more of another, here.
6) What does it mean when a yarn is “Superwash”?
A superwash wool is a special wool product that has been treated or processed in a way that allows it to be machine washable. Many people are afraid to work with wool because it is so easy to shrink (though some shrink wool on purpose) and superwash wool can allow them to work with great fibers without worry. (Read more here).
7) What does “Oeko-Tex® certified” means?
The Oeko-Tex® Standard 100 was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s as a response to the needs of the general public for textiles which posed no risk to health. The Oeko-Tex® Standard 100 is a globally uniform testing and certification system for textile raw materials, intermediate and end products at all stages of production. The test for harmful substances comprise substances which are prohibited or regulated by law, chemicals which are known to be harmful to health, and parameters which are included as a precautionary measure to safeguard health.
For more info go to www.oeko-tex.com
10) How accurate are the colours on the shade cards online?
When obtaining images for the shade card, we do our best to achieve the highest level of color accuracy. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee how images will appear on your computer screen. Every monitor displays color differently, some colors might look darker than they really are, and some colors might be more saturated on some screens. If you experience that many of the yarn colors looks different on your screen than the actual color of the skeins, you can adjust the setting on your monitor.
11) What is a micron? What does super fine / extra fine mean?
The fineness of yarn fibers is measured in microns (thousands of millimeters). Super fine alpaca wool is 26-28 microns. Fine merino wool is less than 21.5 microns and extra fine merino is under 19.5 microns. The less microns the softer and more delicate a quality can be, the more microns the more hard wear the quality will be.
The reason why the microns in a yarn’s fibers are important is that the yarn will eventually become something else, and how delicate or coarse a yarn is will determine in part what we use it for. That’s why we recommend the softest yarns (like DROPS Baby Merino) for baby clothing, or why we choose to use a more hard wear yarn like DROPS Snow, for a seating pad or slipper.
12) Why are the colours in my skeins of print yarn different?
The reason why two skeins of a same print yarn look different can be 1) that both skeins are part of different dye lots; 2) that the skeins have been dyed using a technique called "magic print" (the one used for example in DROPS Delight), which provides unique patterns and smooth colour transitions to each skein, meaning also that within one dye lot, lighter or darker varieties might appear. This is no fault or defect, but part of the yarn's character.
13) My store doesn’t have the colour I want, what can I do?
If your DROPS store doesn’t have the yarn colour you want, try contacting a DROPS Super Store (the ones with the golden badges) - they will make sure to get a hold of the colour even if they don’t have it in stock themselves. See a list of all DROPS stores here.
14) Where can I find a specific dye lot of a colour?
Always try contacting your DROPS store first. If they do not have the dye lot you want we recommend you to ask other knitters and crocheters in the DROPS Workshop in Facebook or Ravelry, which may have the dye lot in their stash and might be willing to part from it.
Yarn sheds because there's not enough twist to hold all of the fibers together. All yarns have excess fibers (from production) that might come off as lint or shedding, in varied degrees that depend on how the yarn is spun. Brushed yarns ("hairier" yarns) like DROPS Melody, have more of these loose fibers than other yarns, and therefore shed more. Shedding also depends on what is worn under or over the garment, and whether this pulls at the yarn fibers. It’s therefore not possible to guarantee that there will be no shedding.
Below are some tips on how to get the best result when working with hairier yarns:
Kaye wrote:
Hi do you send your wool to Australia? Also do you have the cost of the wool in Australian dollars $ Thank you have a great day
17.05.2022 - 03:44:DROPS Design answered:
Dear Kaye, you will find the list of DROPS stores shipping worldwide here - visit their website and do not hesitate to contact them for any further information. Happy knitting!
17.05.2022 kl. 09:18:
Kristine wrote:
Heisann! Ca. hva vil strikkefastheten bli (og anbefalt pinnestr!) på dette garnet med dobbel og trippel tråd? Takker på forhånd for svar!
09.05.2022 - 06:28:DROPS Design answered:
Hei Kristine. Du må sjekke den oppskriften du skal strikke hvilken strikkefasthet og hvilken pinne str. det er anbefalt. Om du skal strikke med 2-tråder DROPS Wish kan du se på oppskrifter som er skrevet for DROPS Polaris. 2 tråder DROPS Wish har samme tykkelse som 1 tråd DROPS Polaris, da er den veiledende strikkefastheten 8 masker x 10 pinner på pinne 12 (10 x 10 cm). Med 3 tråder DROPS Wish, om du ser på oppskrift 163-7 er det anbefalt pinne 20 og en strikkefasthet på 5,5 masker pr. 5,5 cm (rillestrikk). mvh DROSP Design
09.05.2022 kl. 07:52:
Ellen Pauline Landa wrote:
Hei, jeg er på jakt etter fire nøster Drops wish farge nr. 15 mauve i innfaring nr. N128222. Har dere det på lager?
05.04.2022 - 10:52:DROPS Design answered:
Hej Ellen, nej desværre, men prøv at spørge i DROPS workshop på Facebook, her kan man ofte få hjælp :)
05.04.2022 kl. 11:30:
Regine Von Eysmondt wrote:
Wieviel Knäuel von drops air bzw wish benötige ich ,wenn ich eine babydecke in Patentmuster stricken möchte?\r\nDanke für Ihre Mühen \r\nRegine von Eysmondt
20.03.2022 - 16:33:DROPS Design answered:
Liebe Frau Von Eysmondt, je nach der gewünschten Größe und Maschenprobe kann das unterschiedlich sein, am besten stricken Sie eine Maschenprobe, und so können Sie damit alles umrechnen. Gerne wird Ihnen Ihr DROPS Laden damit weiterhelfen - auch telefonisch oder per E-Mail. Viel Spaß beim stricken!
21.03.2022 kl. 15:41:
MARTA wrote:
Buenas tardes: Me falta una madeja de lana Wish Uni Colour, color 12 Dyelot 7F5347. ¿Habría alguna manera de conseguir una? Muchas gracias y un saludo.
14.03.2022 - 17:52:DROPS Design answered:
Hola Marta, puedes encontrar una lista de tiendas DROPS que envían a España en el siguiente enlace: https://www.garnstudio.com/findastore.php?id=23&cid=19. Ponte en contacto con ellas para ver si disponen de este ovillo en esa tintada concreta.
20.03.2022 kl. 18:09:
Valentina Espinoza wrote:
Hi there, I just have a quick question. Is there any way for me in Chile to get your yarns? I would love to be a customer. Thanks in advance!
10.03.2022 - 12:15:DROPS Design answered:
Dear Mrs Espinoza, sure, please find the list of DROPS stores shipping worldwide here. Happy knitting!
10.03.2022 kl. 18:41:
Ines Schlotböller wrote:
Hallo, ist es möglich eine Garnprobe zu erhalten oder wie sieht es mit einer Rückgabe eines (natürlich unbenutzen) Garns aus? Ich möchte gerne einen Pullover stricken, aber die Wolle natürlich vorher einmal anfassen. Vielen Dank und mit freundlichen Grüßen Ines Schlotböller
09.02.2022 - 12:36:DROPS Design answered:
Liebe Frau Schlotböller, am besten wenden Sie sich bitte direkt an Ihrem DROPS Laden, beim klicken auf "bestellen" oben finden Sie die Liste von DROPS Händlern, die DROPS Wish im Sortiment haben. Viel Spaß beim stricken!
09.02.2022 kl. 16:21:
Birgit wrote:
Hallo, ist das Wishgarn auch zertifiziert wie das Snow Garn? Und ist das Snowgarn aus Merinowolle? Ich möchte daraus Babymützen stricken und die dürfen ja auch auf keinen Fall kratzen. Liebe Grüße Birgit
31.01.2022 - 17:28:DROPS Design answered:
Liebe Birgit, DROPS Wish hat nicht die Öko-Tex zertifierung, DROPS Snow hat sie aber. Sie können auch gerne 2 Fäden Garngruppe C als 1 Faden Garngruppe E benutzen - hier lesen Sie mehr. Viel Spaß beim stricken!
01.02.2022 kl. 09:40:
Silvia Habner wrote:
195-21 Sira Hallo, ich möchte dieses Modell stricken mit dem Garn Wish. Wenn ich den Faden doppelt nehme (also EE =F) passt dann die Anleitung? Wieviel Garn benötige ich mit Wish in Größe XL? Nadel 15? Herzliche Grüße Silvia Habner
29.01.2022 - 13:30:DROPS Design answered:
Liebe Frau Habner, ja gerne können Sie dieses Modell mit 2 Fäden Wish / 1 Faden Polaris stricken - benutzen Sie den Garnumrechner um die neue Garnmenge in jeder Farbe kalkulieren zu lassen (2 Fäden Polaris hier wählen). Beachten Sie auch, daß Ihre Maschenprobe (7 Maschen x 8 Reihen mit 2 Fäden Wish = 10 x 10 cm) stimmen muss. Viel Spaß beim stricken!
31.01.2022 kl. 11:29:How can I replace this yarn? If you are looking to replace this yarn with another DROPS yarn, you can use another yarn within the same yarn group, or try our yarn converter!
Diese Wolle ergibt ein wunderbares Maschenbild, es hat viel Spass gemacht, diese Wolle\r\nzu verstricken. Aber leider zeigen sich schon nach kurzer Zeit ( 3-4x tragen ) diese\r\nungeliebten Knötchen. Ein Fusselrasierer ist zwar hilfreich, aber leider rasiert man damit auch \r\nden schönen Flausch ab. Schade...........
24.02.2022 - 22:50: