New dyelot! This one is interesting in that there are more pink and orange tones...and some of the skeins have a really neat contrast with the dark purple tones. I'm thinking a knit wrap with a big handmade ceramic button, or a kids sweater with carved wooden buttons!

Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead is a holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in different cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember friends and family members who have died. Elaborate altars, shrines, special foods, and colorful displays are created in celebration and to honor the dead. One of the most popular "food" are candy skulls. Highly decorated with colorful icings, foil, feathers, and more the candy skulls have become a highly prized folk art and are amazing to behold. The yarn is inspired by the amazing range of color and texture.

The yarn is richly toned with an amazing range of color-turquoise, tangerine, lime, sugar, marigold, crimson, amethyst, lapis lazuli, ebony, gold, lavender, silver, fuchsia, lemon, turquoise, garnet, topaz, and even more.

100 yard skeins, spun thick and thin worsted weight skeins weigh approx 1.9 oz each, handpainted onto next to the skin soft Polwarth wool (See shop About page for more breed specific info) . Soft, springy, yet long wearing and less pilling than Merino. I'd suggest needles in the 6-9 range.

Each skein of yarn is a labor of love. Roving is hand painted with low acid dyes, steamed, and cooled for 24 hours to ensure colorfast yarn and less environmental impact as no dye is being washed down the drain. The roving is drafted and spun on my dreamy Schacht Matchless wheel, wound onto the niddy noddy and fashioned into a skein. Next, I soak the skein of yarn in a spring water rinse. At this point the wet skein is blocked and finally stored, awaiting a new home.