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Logo: Elsebeth Lavold Designer's Choice

Elsebeth Lavold is the only Swedish knitwear designer with her own yarn label. She personally decides which yarns to include, their properties and colors.
   Spinning companies in Europe, South America, and China take her visions from requirements to delightful yarns; produced for and marked by Knitting Fever Inc., the leading US yarn company.
   This joint venture has resulted in a wide variety of yarns with Elsebeth Lavold's name on them, displayed below, and more will follow.
   The yarns are distributed in the US, in Canada (by Nova Yarn), and in parts of Scandinavia.


Image link to the Angora page

Image text: Angora
An Angora yarn, combining the best properties of Wool and Angora; with a lovely softness, and still easy to knit. 60% Angora, 20% Wool, 20% Polyamide. Discontinued, but may still be available in stores.
 
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Designs in the yarn:
The Embraceable You Collection (entire book)
The Sophisticated Lady Collection (1 design)
The Take Five Collection (6 designs)
The Kashmiri Love Collection (2 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (1 design)
The Walk in the Park Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Baby Llama page Image text: Baby Llama
A 100% Baby Llama yarn, incredibly soft. No use trying to describe it in more detail - you'll have to try it for yourself.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Out of the Woods Collection (7 designs)
The Out of the Blue Collection (6 designs)
The Third Viking Knits Collection (4 designs)


Image link to the Bambool page Image text: Bambool
80% Bamboo Viscose and 20% Merino Wool is the composition of this very soft and attractive yarn, allowing for very subtle surface structures.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Touch of Romance Collection (7 designs)
The Third Viking Knits Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Bambouclé page Image text:Bambouclé
45% Cotton, 30% Bamboo, 17% Linen and 8% Nylon, and a slight bouclé effect, is the recipe for this a very attractive yarn, very elastic and nice to knit with. Garments in Bambouclé have a lovely drape.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Dreamweaver Collection (8 designs)


Image link to the Cable Cotton page Image text: Cable Cotton
A lovely cable-spun 100% cotton yarn, a bit sturdier than Cotton Patiné (below), allowing for a nice drape even to heavier garments.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Summer Breeze Collection (6 designs)
The Enchanted Garden Collection (2 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (2 designs)
The Dreamweaver Collection (2 designs)


Image link to the Calm Wool page Image text: Calm Wool
A yarn that is elegant and rustic at the same time. Cable patterns come out nice and chunky, and the composition is unusual and attractive: 40% Wool, 30% Camel, and 30% Alpaca.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Touch of Romance Collection (6 designs)
The Third Viking Knits Collection (5 designs)


Image link to the ChunkyAl page Image text: ChunkyAl
An unplied, loosely spun yarn with a somewhat fuzzy character that can still produce very distinct patterns. The fact that it can be knitted at a loose gauge allows for e.g. big jackets, without the garment resting heavily on your shoulders. 50% Alpaca, 50% Wool.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Mellow Tone Collection (7 designs)
The Kashmiri Love Collection (3 designs)
The Walk in the Park Collection (3 designs)


Image link to the ClassicAl page Image text: ClassicAl
A four-ply, round-spun yarn with an unbelievably soft wool content that balances the heaviness of the alpaca while retaining the lovely shine. It may very well be used as a substitute for an all-wool yarn. 50% Alpaca, 50% Wool.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Mellow Tone Collection (7 designs)
The Second Viking Knits Collection (4 designs)
The Walk in the Park Collection (3 designs)


Image link to the Cotton Frappé page Image text: Cotton Frappé
95% Cotton with a thin thread of Polyamide spun in to give the yarn a slight "glittery" sheen. The shiny polyamide thread is only visible when you look at the garment close-up, but it certainly contributes to the appeal of the yarn.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Sunny Side Collection (8 designs)
The Dreamweaver Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Cotton Patiné page Image text: Cotton Patiné
An exclusive cotton yarn; soft and easy to knit. It was named for it's slight color variation, allowing for an attractive sheen even in stockinette stitch. 100% Combed Cotton.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Sentimental Journey Collection (entire book)
The Summer Breeze Collection (6 designs)
The Enchanted Garden Collection (3 designs)
The Second Viking Knits Collection (2 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Eucool page
75% Wool, 25% Eucalyptus, how's that for an interesting composition. Elsebeth found the yarn unexpectedly soft, and at the same time with a dry, almost papery feel to it. Quite unusual and very appealing, and very pleasant to knit with.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Wellington Collection (8 designs)


Image link to the Hempathy page
A lovely yarn, made up of 40% Hemp, 40% Cotton and 20% Modal. The hemp content provides for a great drape and a linen-like feel, the cotton adds softness, and the modal provides elasticity.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Enchanted Garden Collection (8 designs)
The Second Viking Knits Collection (2 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (3 designs)
The Dreamweaver Collection (3 designs)


Image link to the Silky Cashmere page Image text: Silky Cashmere
An exquisite mixture of 55% Silk and 45% Cashmere. The silk provides the lovely sheen and the cashmere adds softness and makes for great knitting properties.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Second Viking Knits Collection (1 design)
The Kashmiri Love Collection (8 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (1 design)
The Walk in the Park Collection (2 designs)
The Out of the Blue Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Silky Flammé page
In this yarn 50% Peruvian Wool, 30% FS Alpaca and 20% Silk combine into a soft mixture with a lovely sheen. Very easy to knit with, and with a flammé effect that adds to the uniqueness.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Out of the Woods Collection (6 designs)
The Out of the Blue Collection (4 designs)
The Third Viking Knits Collection (1 design)
The Wellington Collection (1 design)


Image link to the Silky Tweed page Image text: Silky Tweed
Knits up with the same gauge as Silky Wool (below), but with a different composition (40% Silk, 30% Cotton, 20% Extra Fine Merino Wool, 10% Viscose) and a distinct and beautiful tweed effect. Discontinued, but may still be available in stores.
 
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Designs in the yarn:
The Sophisticated Lady Collection (9 designs)
The Summer Breeze Collection (2 designs)
The Take Five Collection (6 designs)
The Enchanted Garden Collection (1 design)
The Second Viking Knits Collection (2 designs)
The Kashmiri Love Collection (2 designs)


Image link to the Silky Wool page Image text: Silky Wool
The first yarn in the series. It is spun in Italy and has exquisite knitting properties. 45% Wool, 35% Silk and 20% Polyamide. Colors are carefully selected to allow for harmonious combinations in color patterns and to fit in with current fashion.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Viking Knits Collection (entire book)
The Embraceable You Collection (1 design)
The Sophisticated Lady Collection (6 designs)
The Summer Breeze Collection (3 designs)
The Take Five Collection (9 designs)
The Enchanted Garden Collection (2 designs)
The Second Viking Knits Collection (6 designs)
The Kashmiri Love Collection (2 designs)
The Sunny Side Collection (1 design)
The Walk in the Park Collection (4 designs)
The Dreamweaver Collection (2 designs)
The Out of the Blue Collection (3 designs)
The Small Things Matter Collection (16 designs)
The Third Viking Knits Collection (4 designs)


Image link to the Twice Tweed page
The first recycled yarn in the Designer's Choice line; 42% Wool, 32% Polyamide, 25% Cotton. Here's what the label says about the recycle process: ... made from 100% recycled fibers in a patented manufacturing process; water saving, energy saving, and with no discharge into the environment. No polluting dyeing is used in the process. No new synthetic fibers are needed to make this yarn.
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Designs in the yarn:
The Wellington Collection (6 designs)


 

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