#yarn colorways

[mysticbatmakes]

This was my initial thought for how to dye the Batty colorway, but decided it needed it's own space.

Say hi to Mystic.

It's really difficult to capture this one on camera!

Mystic is a mix of a cool pastel purple, and a cool minty color. It turns this really pleasant grey where they overlap and mix. It's really subtle compared to all the other things I have dyed, and I really find it to fit it's name sake!

I feel like this would make some really pretty garments, or something lacey. I will likely be visiting this color again later, even if only to dye up a sweater's quantity for myself ;)

Currently, I have 10 skeins available on a 100g sock base.

[watcherofthevoide]

pls reblog for larger sample size thanks

@wolfythewitch this is for your shawl btw :)

[roboticchibitan]

I am thinking of using these sun and moon Granny squares but use this fingering weight yarn I already have instead of buying worsted weight yarn to make a celestial themed Granny square Cardigan.

I dyed the blue yarn myself using Jacquard acid dyes colorway sapphire blue and I have approximately 1,470 yards of it but I don't think that's enough for a crochet Cardigan that's big enough to fit me. Crochet takes more yarn than knitting and I'm not even sure I could knit a Cardigan big enough for me out of it either. Unfooooortunately, this was one of my first dye experiments and I'm not 100% sure I took notes. I will have to check.

The yellow all I have is this half a skein of what I think is Madelinetosh Merino light in colorway Candlewick. Idk i've had it for literally a decade. But I think it'll be enough because I don't plan on having moons or suns on every square. I'm planning on alternating between four small squares sewn together where two are plain blue and two are patterned, and one big Granny square. I would draw what I mean but I am too tired to do that right now.

It took all of my self control to not buy the pattern today. It's only $5.25 CAD which is like $3.97USD/€3.65. But my gf got fired so I'm trying to keep frivolous spending to a minimum. I considered asking if a fiber arts mutual would buy it for me but honestly what they all SHOULD be doing is spraying me like a naughty cat whenever I talk about starting a new project before winter holiday gifts are done.

[artsy-apricot]

I finished another pair of socks!

[unfinishedsweaters]

[typheus]

Split for sleeves n decided to do sleeves first instead of the body like i usually do. Cause i dont feel like playing yarn chicken :p

[buttercupyarnart]

I ripped out the Moonless Pullover I'd started (RIP, the yarn is a great color, too bad it's not fit for purpose) and started a Filigree Tee, designed by Julie Knits in Paris! I'm enjoying working on something small, lightweight, and simple after months of working on a complicated blanket that weighed multiple pounds by the time it was finished. The Blanket of Doom was definitely worth it, but I am beyond glad to be out of Endless Blanket Nightmare Land! Pro tip, don't crochet a worsted weight queen size blanket in summer time. Maybe don't do it at any time, ever. ...maybe I'm a hypocrite who's already considering making another one because there's a super cool pattern I really like.

[mysticbatmakes]

The warmest colorway I've made so far?

Love Potion~

This was fun to blend the colors out! I mostly work with blues and greens, so it can be a real challenge for me to find colorways that really inspire me without blue...

These are up for grabs on my Ko-Fi shop!

https://ko-fi.com/mysticbat/shop

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: DAYSWORK by Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel.

Up next! This was an impulse buy (the authors had an event at a bookstore I frequent; serendipity), but the cover was enchanting and I'm fascinated by the structure--the whole book looks like little prose vignettes.

Featuring my own dayswork as of late: knittery! I made a cowl for myself so I don't have to battle with a scarf when I just want something easy between my sinuses and the winter air, especially when it's as cold as it was this weekend ("feels like -11°F" was a very persuasive argument against getting out of bed, but the birds needed me). At least the snow on the frozen pond was pretty!

[needs-more-duck]

anyone have recommendations for trans flag colorway yarn? I prefer merino wool or cotton, and any weight worsted down to thread would be cool.

[milkweedman]

Somehow am on spindle number 2 of this fiber. I grabbed a little just to test out a new spindle and now im thinking maybe a laid 3 ply, one ply for each spindle.

[joaniam]

if you Locked Tomb nerds were into knitting and/or crochet I would be so ready to do a 9 Houses themed set of yarns

The first house would be jet black with bits of white and within the white there would be the tiniest flecks of color like the iridescent robes

And then on from there

The 7th house would be green speckled with red

[vashti-lives]

My Christmas present from my mom came and I’m fucking pumped. It’s Malabrigo Rios in the Pisces colorway.

I have a guide to buying yarn online that I’m working on but as a short PSA

This is what the stock photo of Malabrigo Pisces on the website I bought it from looked like. When you are buying any hand dyed yarn online (but especially from Malabrigo) you have to expect that the stock photo is more of a suggestion than a duplicate of what you’re doing to get— unless the seller explicitly states you are buying the yarn in the photo.

Malabrigo in particular because it sells a quite large quantity of hand dyed yarn has a wide range within each of its color ways. If you are going to buy malabrigo online you should always google malabrigo [color name] and make sure you like every version you see. If you only like a specific ratio of colors I wouldn’t buy it online and would only buy that yarn in person.

This particular color is kind of an outlier in just how much variation there is and for Reasons(tm) I was quite sure I was going to be getting a more muted blue-purple yarn when I ordered (though I would have been fine if I’d been wrong) but part if the reason I was sure was because I googled and looked at all the different color possibilities.

[charhounds]

SOCKS

[waveridden]

god i wish that i could dye yarn. one of the dyers i follow on instagram has been doing yarn palettes based on wes anderson movies and her favorite tv series and i think it's fucked up that i can't do that. i deserve to make yarn for whatever i feel like.

[lunar-years]

First socks :)