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Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I probably shouldn't admit this, but when confronted with "What color should I dye today?" I often have no idea. So when I had to dye today's Daily Dream, I thought "Let's dye something different. Something completely unexpected." This photo made no sense to me whatsoever because flowers don't come in those colors but it was so interesting to look at that I thought "Why not?" and wouldn't you know it, the resulting yarn is fabulously fabulous. Just as interesting, if not more so, than the inspiration photo. It's a winner, as Daily Dreams go.
It's all greens as a base color, with blues and darker forest greens and some rich redwood browns thrown on for fun. There's maybe some darker teal-aquas here and there, too. But it's not crazy with all that color. It's somehow distinguished and dignified. Which are words I don't think I've ever used to describe yarn, but I did say I was going to dye something different, so here we are. And so, if you are feeling like you need a little bit of something different when it comes to your yarn, without it being outlandish or ridiculous, this one's for you.
"Contrarian" will not be dyed again. Three batches available. Yarn will ship later this week.
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.
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. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I went into this knowing I wasn't going to get stark pops of pink, but I didn't really care. Because these are gorgeous colors in this photo and it was worth it, cause this yarn? Stunning. Super stunning. So super stunning.
It's all teals and something that is sort of a blue but maybe dark purple but I can't really tell because it changes color depending on what sort of light you're in. And then there is the pink. It's a dark pink, but there are some brighter pops here and there. Not a lot and not too bright or in your face. Just enough to say Hey! Here we are! We're inspired by a lotus and we're a bit of pretty pink in the night. Because, you know, the color talks to us. Which probably means I need to stop writing and let you buy yourself some yarn.
"Lotus of the Night" will not be dyed again. Two batches available. Yarn will ship next week.
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.
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. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, I thought it would be a fabulous idea to try out mini skeins. I actually thought I'd do a set of five in a gradient. Want to know what happened to the ones I tried to dye in a gradient? You don't want to know. You'd be horrified. HORRIFIED. I HATE dyeing minis. Hate it with the burning heat of a thousand suns. But I still have a bunch on hand and I'm not going to waste the rest of them. So I'm going to dye them here and there so I don't overwhelm myself. I'll sell them in little sets to make it tolerable. So I don't tear my hair out and end up quitting yarn altogether.
I've been lusting over this photo for ages, but I could never, ever dye it because you can't dye orange and blue together. That's the problem with complements. Stupid color theory and the laws of physics. But the upside to these minis is I can dye those gorgeous dark midnight blues and a cute little skein of those golden autumn oranges and my heart is filled with joy. Hopefully yours is too.
"Gilded Midnight" will not be dyed again. Updated: One batch left of the big blue skeins and the mini orange skeins that will only be sold together. Two skeins left of JUST the big blue skeins that can be purchased as single skeins. Yarn will ship next week.
Mini skeins are 20 grams and 79 yards.
High Twist Fingering is 393 yards and 100 grams of 85% super wash merino and 15% 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.
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. -
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Visit product page →Note from Sundara...Okay, so I really, really had planned to not dye more of this. But then lots of you asked very nicely and said things like "I need 7 skeins" or "I need 3 skeins" which means you had specific projects picked out and, well, it's the Queen and I'm still sort of sad and I apparently can't say no. So here's what we are gonna do.
You have 48 hours to buy as much as you want, so until 10am, pacific, on Sunday. Then this color is absolutely gone forever. No exceptions and I'm limiting it to the fingering merino to save my sanity. HERE IS THE CATCH: None of this yarn is dyed and I probably won't have enough on hand to dye all you want, so I'll have to wait to get all of it dyed wait while I get more ordered. SO THE YARN YOU ORDER MAY NOT SHIP FOR A FEW WEEKS. I'm not sure how long it will take me because there is only one of me and I have no idea how much you all will buy. If you can't wait or can't handle not knowing when I'll get the yarn mailed to you, please don't buy this yarn.**
So...one last time! The merino is practical and lovely, like the Queen. And there is no way this pink won't cheer you up. Even if you aren't sad about her death, this is happy pink. It's not too bright or garish. Just perfectly pink. The merino has a range of value, with some pale bits and some saturated bits and everything in between. It looks like a pink rose in bloom, if a skein of yarn was a rose inspired by The Queen.
Final reminder: You have until 10am, pacific, on Sunday, September 25th, to order as much as you want. Yarn will ship when I get it ordered and dyed. I have no idea how long that will take me. Might be a month or two. Don't hold your breath.
**Any orders placed between now and when I mail the Queen Elizabeth yarn you've ordered will be automatically "held and combined" to save you shipping unless you leave a note saying you want me to ship your not-Queen Elizabeth yarn immediately.
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.
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. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I had a lovely customer ask me to look into "non-merino" aran yarns, and since I won't touch BFL with a ten-foot pole because of the itch factor, my other alternative was a silk alpaca blend that I hadn't ever bothered to look at because of the cost and some notion I had in my head about resiliency of alpaca and how any sweater knit with alpaca and silk would get stretched out and be stupid. Seriously. That was what I thought. Let me tell you I was the stupid one because I don't care how stretched out a sweater knit out of this yarn gets. This yarn is so stupid soft, it is worth it. This yarn is roll-around-naked soft. Soft as a baby's bottom soft. Softer than soft. Seriously. I don't know what I was thinking. I never want to knit with another yarn ever again. It's worth every single penny.
My lovely customer had a color request which I promptly forgot because the shine on this yarn. OMG. I saw this photo and started walking around with a skein of the yarn and nattering on to my eleven-year-old about shimmer and gleam and the thickness of the strands making it possible to capture the reflection of the light in a way I couldn't on any other yarn. I MEAN LOOK AT THAT SHINE. I have to yell in all caps. There is no other way to convey my excitement. It's so gorgeous. Get some. You won't regret it.
"The Ephemera of Light" won't be dyed again.
Aran Silky Alpaca is 181 yards and 100 grams of 70% baby alpaca and 30% mulberry silk.
4.5 stitches per inch on US 8/5mm 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. -
Candy Crush
DK merino$27.00
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...So I'm getting this ready to post this Daily Dream a day early for dog-going-to-vet related reasons, and I found out in the middle of preparing it for you that the Queen died and now the whole story I had to tell you about it seems rather frivolous. I thought about coming up with something that had more gravitas but then I figured the Queen would want us to carry on because that's what she always did, so here we go. Stay with me. It's a long one, but it's worth it.
This is some selfish yarn dyeing and you are all going to laugh at me for the reasons. I have a serious addiction to Candy Crush. It's bad. I'm on level 987. I don't know whether to be ashamed or proud. I play it whenever I have two minutes to spare. Waiting for water to boil. Or the microwave. Or at school pick-up for my kid. Or other unmentionable places. That sort of thing. But I keep thinking there has got to be a better use of my time. Like what else could I have accomplished instead of getting to level 987? You know what I keep thinking I could have done? I could have crocheted a blanket. Hear me out.
If I'm going to replace my Candy Crush addiction, whatever replaces it has to be super portable and something I can pick up and do for two minutes without thought. You know what is super portable and can be done for two minutes without thought? Crocheted granny squares. You know what you can do with granny squares? You can make a blanket.
So this is color #1 for my Candy Crush granny square blanket. I'm actually going to crochet hexagons. I haven't figured out what sort of hexagons. That's TBD. The yarn had to come first. There will also be a yellow and a pink and the three colors of hexagons will be crocheted with a border of white that will make them into a square. Finally, they'll all be sewn together, I'll have my Candy Crush blanket, and my addiction will be conquered.
I want you to join me. Or at least try it out. Because I bet you've got a phone or a tablet you feel you're spending too much time on, and you could put that time to better use. But your knitting project always seems like too much effort to get out. Because you've got to figure out where you are and what needs to be done and counting rows and figuring out patterns and blah, blah, blah. So you don't bother. You stick with your screen.
So why not get a couple skeins? And a crochet hook. Find an easy granny square pattern you can memorize. Try it out while you are waiting for the microwave or in line at the drive-through or wherever you futz around on your phone. You never know. You might just end up with a blanket instead of screen time guilt.
"Candy Crush" will not be dyed again but corresponding colors might be. Depending how this project goes. Updated: Less than one batch left.
DK Merino is 218 yards and 100 grams of 100% super wash merino.
5.5 stitches per inch on US 6/4mm 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. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...I'm pretty sure the last few times I've dyed merino cashmere, I've done either bright or warm colors, so I wanted to do something in the darker teal-green-blue family and this photo caught my eye. Isn't it stunning? The yarn is pretty nice, too. Way better in person than the photo, despite lots of futzing in photoshop.
It's a deep green-teal with highlights of icy-aqua turquoise, and it'll be soft and scrumptious for the coming winter.
"Skies of Ice" will not be dyed again. Two batches available.
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.
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. -
Visit product page →Note from Sundara...Two years ago, our fig tree got "pruned" more vigorously than needed and we haven't had figs since. Actually, we got one this year, but the weather has been so awful, there is no way that sucker is going to ripen. I have been sadly fig-less. And they are my favorite fruit. Even more than cherries. So I decided to dye some. Because what we can't have in real life, we can always have in yarn.
And this one is just lovely. I looked at my one previous fig-inspired yarn and this one is way better. So much better. It's also, I think, the perfect sock color. It works with everything. Black shoes. Brown shoes. Jeans. Black pants. Yoga pants. Maybe not khakis. I guess I have to take back my works with everything blanket statement. But ALMOST everything. So many things it is worth getting. It even works with the ridiculous hot pink flamingo yoga pants I wear. It grounds them. Because figs are the perfect fruit and the perfect color. Get some. You won't regret it. Nor will your feet.
"Fresh Figs" will not be dyed again. Three batches minus a couple skeins available. Yarn will ship next week.
Eco Fingering Merino is 470 yards and 100 grams of 85% super wash merino and 15% biodegradable 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.
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.Merino comes from sheep not subjected to mulesing.
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Visit product page →Note from Sundara...1 batch available.
High Twist Fingering is 393 yards and 100 grams of 85% super wash merino and 15% 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.
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.
