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What The Lions Eat
Four Colors, From Citric Overdyes
Lace Yarns From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in Special Orders.
There are 7 or less skeins available in each color and they were arrived at by overdyeing colors that didn't sell, meaning we're not sure how to get the color again—once they're gone, they're gone—we're not putting them in the Lace Yarn Store either.
We'll take them to New York and feed them to the lions there until they're gone; but I do like that red.
2 oz (50 g), 350 yd, 8 stitches per inch on US 2
Citric dyes are true and beautiful and very fast; they are quicker to do and well priced.
Indigo over Ochre in an Iron Bath
Indigo over Ochre in an Iron Bath, From Natural Dyes
A Worsted Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in Worsted Yarn.
We dye an Ochre with Madder, Fustic and Cutch then take that bright orange color while it's still wet and quickly dip it in an Indigo bath then immerse it in an Iron solution to mute the colors.
2 oz (50 g), 140 yd, 5 stitches per inch on US #8 needles
Earth friendly natural dyes.
A Longing Green
February Green, From Citric Dyes
A Fingering Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in the Fingering Yarn Store.
This is a green of spring that we long to see and to feel in February and let's call it, February Green. It's hoped for and it's coming.
2 ply, 2 oz (50 g), 225 yd, 7.5 stitches per inch on US 3
Citric dyes are true and beautiful and very fast; they are quicker to do and well priced.
The Lights Go Down On Broadway
Black, From Citric Dyes
A Super Bulky Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Gray, From Citric Dyes
A Super Bulky Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in the Super Bulky Yarn Store.
Stately, classic, forever blacks and grays; both have tints to them: the black has a hidden red to it and the gray has a more pronounced but subtle mauve to it.
4 oz (100 g), 110 yd, 4 stitches per inch on US #15 needles
Citric dyes are true and beautiful and very fast; they are quicker to do and well priced.
Happy Brown, The New Black
Happy Brown, From Citric Dyes
A Sport Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in Sport Yarn.
What more can you say.
2 ply, 2 oz (50 g), 175 yd, 6.5 stitches per inch on US 5
Citric dyes are true and beautiful and very fast; they are quicker to do and well priced.
Hand Dipped Yarn
Red, From Citric Dyes
A Sport Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in Dipped Yarn.
We half dyed our Sport Weight Yarn into 4 individual Citric colors: Black, Brown, Red and Blue. How we did this: we added the dyes and the citric acid to a bath in a stainless steel pot, we immersed the yarn half way into the bath, we then slowly took the temperature up to just below boiling and waited until all the color was absorbed by the yarn and the bath itself was clear.
2 ply, 2 oz (50 g), 175 yd, 6.5 stitches per inch on US 5
Citric dyes are true and beautiful and very fast; they are quicker to do and well priced.
Natural Dipped Yarn
Indigo Dipped Madder, From Natural Dyes
A Worsted Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Available in Dipped Yarn.
We dip naturally dyed yarn half way into a natural Indigo bath and hold it there for about a minute (longer if the Indigo vat is not strong) then pull it from the bath. Dipping madder: first the indigo half is brown as its initial reduced-oxygen green color mutes the Madder red until it oxidizes in the air turning the Indigo a dark blue and giving the yarn a mauve penumbra where it was half in and half out of the indigo bath.
2 oz (50 g), 140 yd, 5 stitches per inch on US #8 needles
Amazing, colors change before your eyes; earth friendly natural dyes.
Super Bulky & It's Colors
Fall Brown, From Citric Dyes
A Super Bulky Yarn From Our Saxon Merino Sheep
Six new colors available in Super Bulky Yarn.
How it came into being: I asked David at Green Mountain Spinnery, being that they had made our Bulky Yarn by twisting four spun strands together into a singles, if they could they could twist six strands together making us an even thicker yarn, a Super Bulky. "Hmm," he said, "we can try." Never had they made a yarn that thick before. "Well, if it's iffy," I said, "spin a small lot, 50 lb."
I called David several weeks later, "We did it and we like it," he said. I had them send me the new yarn that day, so eager I was to see and feel it.
It is soft and lovely as is all our Saxon Merino yarn, but it is thick and you must use large needles to knit it.
4 oz (100 g), 110 yd, 4 stitches per inch on US #15 needles
And I asked Rebecca to dye several colors, ones that would look good on a yarn so thick—she was to dye only one pound of each color to see if they worked—and she did, and I like them.
And we have an Undyed Super Bulky.