skeinLight – april – veil // mask
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** Pre-orders for cade | singles ~veil~ will stay open until midnight Monday 21st. Pre-orders for bray | lace ~mask~ have closed because all my stock yarn has been allocated. **
#skeinLight is my chance to indulge my love of light in all its nuanced forms, as I take a single image from my light-filled camera roll each month and use it to create two shades. One variegated, either ~flash~ or ~fluid~, and a semi-solid companion to contrast or compliment.
The sky, the sea, the sun on a hay meadow, shadows on a worn brick path, glimmers of light on a mist-cloaked marsh. Fairy lights, moonlight, crepuscular rays through a moody cloud-scudded sky. I love the way the play of light can change the atmosphere and outlook entirely, and change my mood...
I'll be using all of the above as inspiration for this year's limited-run series. Two shades each month throughout 2025, dyed on a variety of fingering weight yarn bases, some from our regular range and some popping-up just for this series.
April – an evening dog walk along the meadow, making the most of the lighter evenings now we're in British Summer Time! The sun was just a soft peachy pink glow as it sank below the treeline and through a cloud of blackthorn blossom, framed by the skelton silhouette of a still-bare tree the light was stunning...
This month I've broken my own rules (two shades dyed on the same fingering weight base) and dyed the first on cade | singles and the other on bray | lace. veil is a combination of soft apricot, lavender, peachy pink and silver grey and the merino/linen single-ply yarn has a soft glow and the barest hint of a halo that suited the mood perfectly. mask is an oaky brown, silver beige, warm hint-of-russet semi-solid that attempts to capture the fuzzy, hazy screen provided by the bare branches of the tree. They work beautifully individually, side-by-side, or held together (to create a brand new shade with a gorgeous halo!)
cade | singles is a single-ply blend of merino and linen and has a subtle halo and a slightly rustic vibe along with the soft sheen common to all single-ply yarns. Bray | lace is our classic kid mohair/silk blend that is dreamy as a laceweight yarn on large needles, used alone, or perfect to hold alongside another yarn to create a soft, fuzzy fabric with lovely drape...
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.