Are you at all familiar with the nature of qiviut? Not that I would actually use it, as it's too expensive, but I can assure you that the yarn spun from the underfur of musk-oxen is the single warmest and second softest natural fiber on the face of the planet, gaps or no.
... please get Benton Fraser's voice out of my head. I AM TALKING ABOUT KNITTING HERE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Okay. Anyway. The thing about knitting is, if I was going to do long underwear, I would set about doing it seriously. There's a technique called double knitting where you do two layers at once; it's terrifically warm since it not only produces an insulative layer but prevents gaps from being a problem. Not to mention that if I used anything with a partial wool component, I'd be throwing it in the washing machine and dryer, and it would fuzz up and full out a bit in the process, making the gaps much much smaller even if they existed.
I could, of course, felt the things. I've made felted slippers before. But felted underwear would be a bit much even for me.
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... please get Benton Fraser's voice out of my head. I AM TALKING ABOUT KNITTING HERE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Okay. Anyway. The thing about knitting is, if I was going to do long underwear, I would set about doing it seriously. There's a technique called double knitting where you do two layers at once; it's terrifically warm since it not only produces an insulative layer but prevents gaps from being a problem. Not to mention that if I used anything with a partial wool component, I'd be throwing it in the washing machine and dryer, and it would fuzz up and full out a bit in the process, making the gaps much much smaller even if they existed.
I could, of course, felt the things. I've made felted slippers before. But felted underwear would be a bit much even for me.