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Red Eden
extra fine sport merino
2 skeins left!
$27.00
Red Eden
extra fine sport merino
2 skeins left!
$27.00
Note from Sundara...I have two goals with today's yarn. The first is to live vicariously through the color because I yearn for this rose bush, but I am not allowed any more rose plants (sigh). The second is to convince you that sport weight yarn is not the devil.
Seriously. Y'all seem to hate to knit anything with sport gauge. Periodically, one of you asks for it. I dye it, and it inevitably ends up being the least popular yarn weight of all time. Which makes no sense, because sport weight has so much to offer. It's faster to knit up than fingering, but still lightweight. It's a year-round gauge. Anything you make with it can be worn layered (still lightweight!) but is delicate enough that you can use it in the summer, when the nights get chilly.
So. Now that I've made the case for why you should make yourself something out of this glorious red sport weight yarn, what should you make? Have you seen the "Pasadena Pullover" by Mari Tobita? It's beyond gorgeous. You should knit it just to knit it it's such a lovely design. But, if you want something that will work for the upcoming warmer months, "Joni" by Nastasja Hornby is perfect for summer. And, if you don't want a sweater, there are tons of sport weight accessories patterns. I like the "Making Waves Cowl" by Kay Hopkins. And of course, for my crocheting friends, there is the "Honeybunch Tee" by Anne ten Haaf and the "Astrid shawl" by Tatsiana.
So many options! Such pretty yarn! Go forth and embrace the sport!
"Red Eden" will not be dyed again.
Extra Fine Sport Merino is 328 yards and 100 grams of 100% super wash merino.
6 stitches per inch on US 5/3.75mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.
All yarn is shipped via USPS Priority mail.
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Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I may have mentioned that my parents were just took a Hawaiian vacation, which, you know, Hawaii is good inspiration. I saw this photo and thought...drama! And you know what drama makes for? People-stopper projects. The projects where, when you where them, people stop you and tell you how amazing it is and what a fantastic knitter you are. And don't we all love that? That's the best. Makes you feel like a million bucks and makes all those hours and hours of knitting worth it.
Personally, I love me some pink and orange, so I would use all three of these colors together, but even just the dark purple with either the orange or the pink would be sufficient people-stopper dramatic. Or, you could do just the orange and the pink because bright! is also people-stopper dramatic. You pretty much can't go wrong with any combination of these three. Go with whatever calls to you. It'll be the right people-stopper for you.
"Hawaiian Sunset" will not be dyed again. Updated: 1 skein left of the orange & a few skeins left of the dark purple.
Extra Fine Fingering Merino is 437 yards and 100 grams of 100% super wash merino.
7 stitches per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.All yarn is shipped via USPS Priority mail.
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Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I've been wanting to use this photo for ages. It's the Arc de Triomphe, for starters. But I love how it gives such a sense of how it must feel at that specific moment in time. And the colors. I just love these colors.
#1 fingering silky merino singles (right) may not look like much, but I actually used bright orange and bright purple to get what is a hazy, spicy, coppery, rosy triumph of a color. If it were me, I'd pair it with #2 fingering silky merino singles (middle) and knit myself Stephen West's "Flying Foxtail Wrap." (2 skeins each color) Because, while the obvious choice for that project is two super contrasting colors, the projects I like best are those with two colors that have a medium contrast from the same color family. Like these two.
#3 Italian fingering merino cashmere (left) is for those who want a little bit of all the color but want it in one skein. It doesn't go all the way to the spicy, coppery burnt orange of #1, but it's got rich, deep shades of ruby red that wash over that deep blue-purple. It's pretty amazing.
"Arc de Triomphe" will not be dyed again. Updated: 3 skeins left of #2 and #3.
Fingering Silky Merino Singles is 437 yards and 100 grams of 75% super wash merino and 25% mulberry silk.
7 stitches per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.Italian Fingering Merino Cashmere is 383 yards and 100 grams of 80% super wash merino, 10% cashmere, and 10% nylon.
7 stitches per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.All yarn is shipped via USPS Priority mail.
Save on Shipping: If you think you'll be ordering Daily Dreams more than once in the next 30 days or so, you may have me hold and combine all your orders to save shipping costs.
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When I mail all your orders in about 4 weeks, I'll refund you the overage you paid for shipping. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I have two more batches of the baby silky yak, and I wanted to do one of them (today's) in a dark wine red because that is always popular. So I went with this photo because it's another I wouldn't have normally picked because mixing orange and magenta aren't popular, but breaking it down into three different colors loosely inspired by the photo? All sorts of fun things.
The baby silky yak (#1 and far left in the trio) is the most straightforward. Like I said, it is a dark wine red and glorious in silk and yak. Yak being even softer than cashmere. The fingering merino cashmere (#3 and far right in the trio) is all sorts of dark browns with glints of orange and some reds in it from the inspired dawn. It literally feels like a rich velvet. But the fingering merino singles (#2 and the middle of the trio) is the one I find the most interesting. It's a combo of dark cherry reds and a deep, muted fuchsia - pretty much the color of the sky in the photo above the orange. It's not a color combination you see often, but it works well in this color. It should knit up oh so pretty; the two colors blending together to make something so much more than each as an individual. I hope some of you will try it out.
"The Velvet Light of Dawn" will not be dyed again. Just a few skeins of #2 left.
Fingering Merino Singles is 437 yards and 100 grams of 100% super wash merino.
7 stitches per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.All yarn is shipped via USPS Priority mail.
Save on Shipping: If you think you'll be ordering Daily Dreams more than once in the next 30 days or so, you may have me hold and combine all your orders to save shipping costs.
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When I mail all your orders in about 4 weeks, I'll refund you the overage you paid for shipping. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I very nearly didn't name this Red Hot Poker because none of this yarn is red, but it is the name of this flower and it is a great name. Isn't it? Great name. Great flower. And even better yarn.
You all are probably excited about the yak because you all can't get enough of the yarn, but I'm excited about #2, the yellow lace silky alpaca. Most of you are probably thinking "Good Lord, that is some yellow yarn." And maybe not in a good way. But it is yellow in a good way. The thing with the lace silky alpaca is that when you knit it up, the color diffuses almost exponentially. So if you want even a basically bright color out of it, you need the color to look almost garish in the skein. So when this knits up, it will be the most gorgeous yellow with hints of saffron and marigold. It's a yellow-lovers dream.
#3, the fingering silky yak, is also a yellow-lovers dream, but also a coral-lovers dream. This is all fiery sunset colors and I'm loathe to let you all have these skeins because it's so pretty and these are the colors I like to wear. But I will. I will let you have the entire batch because yarn dyers can't hoard all the yarn.
#1, the blue lace silky alpaca is a deep, rich, super saturated blue, that, like #2, will hold its color when knit up. Or at least most of it. It's going to diffuse because all lace yarn diffuses some of its color, but it will still be a very elegant deep blue.
"Red Hot Poker" will not be dyed again. Updated: 1 skein of the blue alpaca and 3 skeins of the yak left.
Lace Silky Alpaca is 328 yards and 50 grams of 75% brushed baby suri alpaca and 25% mulberry silk.
8 stitches per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.Fingering Silky Yak is 219 yards and 50 grams of 50% baby yak and 50% mulberry silk.
7 stitches and 9 rows per inch on US 3/3.25mm needles.
Gently hand wash in tepid water for project longevity.
Orders for 2+ skeins will be matched as closely as possible.All yarn is shipped via USPS Priority mail.
Save on Shipping: If you think you'll be ordering Daily Dreams more than once in the next 30 days or so, you may have me hold and combine all your orders to save shipping costs.
Include "Hold and combine shipping" in the NOTES section of checkout (not PayPal notes).
When I mail all your orders in about 4 weeks, I'll refund you the overage you paid for shipping.
