Yarn Store Update: Forest Floor

The new yarns are up in the store now.  You'll note I've added an archive album underneath the store album in order to keep track of sold out colourways - I've always found it annoying to surf through an entire online store looking for the single item that might not have been sold...

This week I was inspired by the miniature worlds to be found underfoot in the rainforest:

I chose colours in a similar value range this time, for a nicely blended effect:

(One day soon, I will update my colour series from last year and put it on a webpage of its own for reference - I've had a few inquiries about my methods and realized that it is buried in the blog archives.)

The Bluefaced Leicester (which I am still completely in love with):

I've got a simple lace scarf pattern in the works that takes advantage of these colour intervals in the same manner as the silk scarves I was playing with last spring.  (I'll give it a proper post of its own when it's finished.)

 

The merino sock yarn - I have started a pair of ribbed socks (pictures further down) and am totally impressed with this stuff - so soft and lofty in the skein, yet so crisp, sturdy and elastic in the knitted fabric (and loads of yardage to boot.)  Definitely a keeper.

Here's the semi-solid - the blues are confined to shades of navy in this case, so you might even get by with it for a guy:

I also played around with dyeing a couple of extra long skeins in a quasi self-striping effect (and kept one for myself):

A new lace yarn this week - 100% merino, slightly thicker than the alpaca/merino:

And the alpaca/merino lace:

I love the way the different fibres contribute their own unique characters to a colourway.

Comments

[jess]

uh, WOW!

[Ronni]

Gorgeous! And I finally made it before they were sold out! Unfortunately, if I go with my lust I'll be broke before you know it so I had to limit myself to two skeins. I _knew_ you'd be brilliant at yarn dyeing.

[Nanette]

The colors are gorgeous! I can't wait to see the finished scarf - I think it is going to be spectacular!

[Anne]

Those are just stunning. Your work never ceases to amaze me!

[Janet]

I won't lie to you, I am completely in love with this colourway! It amazes me how each yarn can look so completly different. I am probably not expressing myself well, but just looking at the yarns you have dyed brightens my day. I can't help but smile. Please keep up the great work.

[LaurieM]

Lovely, lovely colors! The intensity of the shades is just right.