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love~hope

love – pightle | fingering/4ply (100g)
3 in stock
£20.00
£20.00
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Are you a a Valentine's day lover? I'm not one for material demonstrations of emotion, especially purely commercial 'pink' ones but love and hope are the foundation for everything, aren't they? And at the moment they feel more essential than ever, so I spent a very happy couple of hours in the dye studio recently, playing with all the possibilities contained in the 'red' dye pots (with a little bit of violet thrown in for good measure) and came up with two shades that you may choose to view as Valentine shades, or you may just choose to see as love~ly and hope~ful...

Use individually, or hold pightle | fingering/4ply and bray | lace together for a feast of deep red, vibrant plum, juicy raspberry, soft rose, lilac, lavender and ballet shoes pink.

These limited-run shades are what I like to refer to as 'repeatable one-of-a-kind' shades, so if they prove popular I'll leave pre-orders open and dye more over the next week or so...

We use professional acid dyes with good light and wash fastness and do our best to exhaust every dye bath and reuse water wherever possible to reduce any further environmental impact. Occasionally a small amount of 'loose' dye may remain in the yarn after rinsing (most likely with deeply saturated shades) and we always recommend hand washing in very cool water and pre-washing your yarn separately if you are intending to mix light and dark shades in a single garment/project. 

We recommend hand washing your finished projects in cool water to preserve the vibrancy of the dye and, as with all small-batch, hand-dyed yarn that doesn't have dye lots, we also recommend knitting alternate rows from two skeins when working on larger projects to avoid noticeable changes between skeins.