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Le Coquelicot
extra fine fingering silky merino
1 skein purple left!
$36.00
Le Coquelicot
extra fine fingering silky merino
1 skein purple left!
$36.00
Note from Sundara...I saw this photo and all I could think of was how my great-grandmother used to grow poppies this color. And how my mother had collected seeds from those poppies and grew them in her garden. AND how the saddest thing ever is that I think they've all died, and we no longer have my great-grandmother's heirloom poppies. So you know, I dyed yarn. For my mom.
I'm going to knit my mother a "Loop" shawl by Casapinka out of these colors. The glorious poppy purple will be the main color. The green, which may be hard to make out, but is actually inspire by the little yellow-green poppy center in the middle of the flower, will be loopy part of the shawl. It's going to be amazing. It won't bring back my great-grandmother's poppies, but it's going to be an heirloom. If you want to knit your very own heirloom "Loop," you'll need 1 skein of each color
"Le Coquelicot" will not be dyed again. Updated: 1 skein left of purple.
Extra Fine Fingering Silky Merino 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.
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.
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...Well, I have to admit I felt entirely liberated by not using a inspiration photo last Friday. So much so that I didn't use one today and I may not use one tomorrow. I've been feeling increasingly constricted and like something has been holding me back with my yarn dyeing and it may just be that I feel constrained by using inspiration photos. I have some theories as to why, but I won't bore you. We are here to talk about yarn.
I obviously wasn't finished with my need to dye a blue-teal-green gradient, since I had these similar colors on Friday. The difference is this is obviously DK silky merino and there are only 3 shades instead of 4. Also, DK silky merino takes color way differently than the fingering merino. But OMG is it so soft and squishy. I was going to sell these as set, but honestly, I sort of want a sweater out of this yarn, so I'm offering them separately in case one of you wants to do the same. Although a sweater out of this gradient would be divine. You really can't go wrong no matter what you do with any combination of this yarn and these colors.
"Out of the Doldrums" will not be dyed again. Updated: 2 skeins left of the teal.
Extra Fine DK Silky Merino is 246 yards and 100 grams of 75% super wash merino and 25% mulberry silk.
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'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: 2 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.
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 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.
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.
