About the Wool

All my yarn is dyed by hand, usually two or three skeins at a time, by me. The nature of hand-dyeing means that there will be variations in the dye distribution throughout the skein, such as spotting, blending and patches of colour, and this is an intentional part of the design of hand-dyed, multi-coloured yarns.

Unrepeatable colours

The way that I hand-paint yarn means that the colourways are not exactly repeatable. I will create new colourways fairly frequently, so can’t guarantee that a colourway will always be available. This means that there will always be new colours for you to play with!

Colours on-screen

I try to make my photographs as accurate as possible. However my computer monitor isn’t going to be calibrated the same way as yours, so what you see isn’t guaranteed to be what I am seeing. If you need help with selecting a colour, please email me.

Washing your finished knitting

I recommend that you hand-wash anything you’ve knitted from our yarn, using a wool-kind gentle detergent and cool water, finishing with a fabric softener. I have tried to ensure that the colours in the yarn are fast, but this cannot always be guaranteed, and a little bleeding and fading after washing is to be expected. This is particularly true of the very dark or intense colours.

Pooling and Flashing

It is impossible for me to say how your socks will turn out. Everybody knits to a different gauge and the yarn will knit up in a different way for each person. ’Pooling’ and ‘flashing’ of colours in a sock is part of the enjoyment of knitting with hand-dyed yarns! If you really dislike this as a design feature of your socks, then you could try knitting from two balls of yarn. Split your skein into two 50g balls, and knit alternate rows from each ball. This can help to overcome the tendency of colours to stack on top of each other and can produce a less defined pattern.