I have been seeing a lot of beautiful butterflies in our backyard lately, thanks to the previous owner who planted lots of flowers that butterflies love. I've even seen a few monarch butterflies, which are my favorite. This yarn colorway was inspired by those beautiful butterflies.
I dyed this colorway on Stained Glass Sock, which is a soft and squishy 2-ply yarn made of 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon. The thing that makes Stained Glass Sock uniquely wonderful is that one ply is made of white wool while the other alternates between black and white, so when I dye the yarn, it looks like leaded stained glass--or in this case the black lines in monarch butterflies' wings. Each 100 gram skein has 400 yards.
YARN FACTS
Monarch Butterfly on Stained Glass Sock
Garden Collection
Tonal Colorway
400 yards / 3.5 oz / 2 plies
80% superwash merino / 20% nylon
Care: Machine or hand wash cold and air dry.
YARN PAIRINGS
The last photo shows a fantastic fade made with four different butterfly colorways. The colorways are named after the butterfly species I used as the inspiration. From left to right the colorways are Quino Checkermark, Indian Jezebel, Monarch Butterfly (this one), and Colorado Hairstreak.
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