***Due to the small size of my dye-lots (usually 20 skeins, sometimes less) I often do not have sweater main color amounts in stock. Feel free to email me (uptonyarns@gmail.com) to discuss sweater sized dye lots if the stock is low for your favorite color**
This 3 ply worsted spun DK weight yarn was created from the flock of Two Sisters Farm in Waldoboro, Maine. Bluefaced Leicester produce a vibrant, medium staple length fleece, with good crimp. Soft but still hard wearing, it is the perfect yarn for sweaters, hats, and mittens.
Like all my dyed yarn, I used only plant and insect based dyes, and a few assists to achieve bright, light fast colors. Many of my colors include natural indigo. If you are not familiar with the vagaries of working with natural indigo dyed yarn, please read "A Note About Indigo".
*** All profits from sale of pink yarn will be donated to the ACLU - Pussy Hat pattern for DK weight BFL is available as free download here***
Suggested Needle: US sizes 4-6
Length: approx. 100 yds
$16 per skein
A very limited run of six skeins - though only four may be currently available. I love this color and will hopefully be making more in the future, but as with any color I produce, I may never be able to replicate it exactly. This yarn was dyed with natural indigo over weld. If you haven’t worked with natural indigo dyed yarn before, please check out my note about indigo.
Spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
The color name says it all. Dyed with madder root and lac.
A very very happy orange.
Dyed with madder root, lac, and weld.
Spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
Vibrant Lichen looks yellow in some light and light green in others. Dyed with weld
Fleece from Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine
Dark green Hackmatack has occasional notes of light green/gold (please note if you prefer more or less variation in your skeins). Dyed with weld and indigo
A 3-ply, worsted spun DK weight yarn spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
Ever so slightly richer than the color I think of as “sky blue”. The color of the sky on a hot August day. Dyed with natural indigo (for those unfamiliar with the foibles of yarn dyed with natural indigo, please click the link).
A 3-ply, worsted spun DK weight yarn spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
A rich blue achieved with natural indigo (if you are unaccustomed to working with yarn dyed with natural indigo, please read A Note About Indigo).
A 3-ply, worsted spun DK weight yarn spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
Undyed
Spun from the from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
Birch forest gray. Dyed with tannin.
Spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
All profits from the sale of pink yarns will be donated to the ACLU. A Pussy Hat pattern for DK weight yarn is available for free download here.
Dyed with madder and cochineal.
Spun from the fleece of Two Sisters Farm, Warren, Maine.
All profits from the sale of pink yarns (this colorway is more coral than pink, but to my mind it still counts) will be donated to the ACLU. A free download of a Pussy Hat Pattern for DK weight yarn is available here.
This colorway is a bit more coral than pink; dyed with madder root and lac.
A range of purples, from mauve to plum. I was aiming for a color named "Fern's Watch" in honor of a friend's very good and very much missed dog who was fond of the sunsets over Katahdin, but there was a bit more indigo in the vat than I hoped and the yarn went slightly more purple. The friend in question (Sarah, of FiberTrek podcast fame) has very kindly suggested that it be called Coe's Naptime, in honor of Fern's pack-mate, Coe who is very fond of naps.
I just dyed up a new batch. There is enough yardage in this colorway to knit a full sweater.