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macro~meadow – april

into leaf – cade | singles (100g)
1 in stock
£21.00
£21.00
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Wandering through a meadow is one of my favourite things to do, and we've been lucky enough to live in and amongst meadows for the last twenty or so years. In Suffolk it's very easy to spend most of the time looking up at the huge skies but this year I'm going to focus on exploring what's closer to hand/eye. I'm going to hunt down the amazing micro-palettes in the blades of grass, the berries, the fence posts and field gates, and create shades that show another aspect of the fields all around us. I'm going to be looking at the textures and detail up close but most of all, I'm hunting for fabulous colour combinations to inspire beautiful yarn!

Each month I'll use one photo to create two shades; one variegated ~flash~ shade and a complimentary/contrasting semi-solid. I'll be focussing on fingering/4ply weight yarn and often the two shades will be on the same base but occasionally I might take liberties and dye something fluffy!

April – a month full of perfect moments. The first swallow [tick], cow parsley in the verges [tick], the ancient oaks 'greening' in the woods [tick], bees bumbling around in the lawn [tick], bluebells [tick]! It feels like the landscape is transformed in a flash but if you stop and look closely it's all happening in super slow motion and I've been noting the progress of a straggly sycamore as I wander down to the meadow every morning. The buds really are the perfect spring palette of palest citrine, zingy chartreuse, soft apricot, copper pink and a hint of toffee chestnut. With a milky blue morning sky visible through the canopy it was irresistible...

Both shades are dyed on cade | singles, our blend of superwash merino wool and linen and the soft halo and subtle texture are perfect for spring knits. The first shade is called ~ into leaf ~ and combines all those warm coral pinks and soft peachy tones with gold leaning citrine and a hint of zing. Its semi-solid companion ~ sky beyond ~ blends all the sky blue, periwinkle, soft azure and almost turquoise tones in the fabulous blue sky that frames the tangle of branches and leaf buds to create a semi-solid with lots of lovely tonal variation running through it.

There are a couple of batches of each shade in the shop and ready-to-ship right now, and if they sell through quickly, I'll leave pre-orders open and dye more next week...

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.