Living in the upper Mid-West, we do appreciate our evergreens for providing some color throughout winters that are either very brown or very white! I’ve always been fond of the scaled needles and bright blue berries of Junipers.
Our yarn for November happened a bit accidentally, I was trying out a new supplier and totally missed that these came 5 in a bag instead of the usual 10 (read that fine print, and if the price seems too good to be true…), so I’ve been holding onto these for a while deciding whether to dye these for the shop, or for Club. You all deserve a little luxury, so meet a beautiful blend of extra fine Superwash Merino Wool, Mulberry Silk, and Cashmere.
I dyed this in a double down and back pattern to puddle into lazy spiral stripes up socks, however this is a very soft yarn, you may prefer to use this for something that will experience less wear, like leg warmers, mitts, a shawlette, or simply reinforce wear areas by holding in a sturdier yarn…extra cushioned toes, heels, and soles sure sound nice for this time of year!
Our fiber is also a special one, it’s a blend of 50% Polwarth, 30% dehaired Llama, and 20% Tussah Silk. I let the brown llama fiber take the place of the darker purple-brown-black background bit in the inspiration picture, and simply dyed a blended gradient of light to dark blue then dark green to light green.
Because of the varying fiber lengths in this blend, you may need to modify your spinning so you don’t pull all of one particular fiber out at a time. Leaving plenty of room between your hands will help with the silk and llama and hopefully the Polwarth will follow along. Some strategic pinching can help with your worsted spinning across the braid, or if you’d rather go woolenish with this, I’d suggest spinning from the fold or making rolags….either Fauxlags, or use your hand cards or blending board. You could ply this with something else or chain ply to maintain the gradient, or I think it would be fun to ply on itself, the light and dark greens matching up to the light and dark blues.
Tiger Club is taking new subscriptions by waitlist only at this time to be sure I have the materials and time to add each new Club Member. If you are interested, do check out the Tiger Club info page and use the contact form to sign up!
