A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES Hand Dyed on Quick and Cozy Bulky - Assigned Pooling Yarn
A LIGHT IN DARK PLACES Hand Dyed on Quick and Cozy Bulky - Assigned Pooling Yarn
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“And you, Ring-bearer,’ she said, turning to Frodo. ‘I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.’ She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it, and rays of white light sprang from her hand. ‘In this phial,’ she said, ‘is caught the light of Eärendil’s star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Remember Galadriel and her Mirror!’
--The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Before creating this colorway, I mulled over this quote from The Two Towers for a few weeks, trying to think of a way to use Galadriel's light as inspiration for a new yarn colorway. I chose to create a background of black for the dark places in which the phial is eventually used, and I decided to use all the ROYGBIV colors for the white light, because white light is made from all the colors and because I thought it would make really lovely yarn.
YARN BASE
I dyed it on Quick and Cozy Bulky, which is a 3-ply yarn made of 100% superwash merino. This base is great when you need something that works up quickly and that's extra warm.
YARN FACTS
A Light in Dark Places on Quick and Cozy Bulky
Literary Collection
Assigned Pooling Colorway
109 yards / 3.5 oz / 3 plies
100% superwash merino
Care: Machine or hand wash cold and air dry
YARN PAIRINGS
A Light in Dark Places would go beautifully with Sunflower, Matcha Latte, and Lilac.
YARN SWATCH
I have included a couple photos of a hat I knit using Wonderful Worsted to give you an idea of how it will work up.
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TIMELINE
This yarn is dyed and ready to ship. I ordinarily ship in 1-2 business days.
QUANTITY
I show multiple skeins of yarn in my photos so you can see the small differences between each one, but each skein is sold separately.
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DYE METHODS
I use a number of different methods for dyeing yarn. I list the method in the yarn facts section of each colorway, and you can also search by dye method. Here's what those methods are:
Assigned Pooling Colorways - These colorways have about 75% of the skein dyed in one color or color combination (called the background color) and the other 25% dyed in something that is distinctly different (called the accent color). You knit or crochet along until you get to the accent color, and then you do something different. Look for knitting patterns like those by Dawn Barker of Barker Wool that are made for assigned pooling colorways. I have some of my own as well. You'll find lots in the knitting world, but assigned pooling patterns are also started to gain popularity in the crochet world.
Block Variegated Colorways - Block variegated colorways are dyed in distinct sections of one color followed by another color. They typically have somewhere between 2 and 8 colors. These can pool, but if that isn't what you want, consider adjusting the number of stitches just a little bit or using a different stitch for the yarn.
Ikat Colorways - This method involves using a resist to keep the dye from certain areas of the yarn on the first dye round. Then those areas are filled in with different dye colors in successive dye rounds.
Planned Pooling Colorways - Planned pooling colorways are a type of block variegated colorway with between 2 and 5 colors that can be used for planned pooling projects like those Mary Bird offers for crochet in her book, Yarn Pooling Made Easy, and Laura Bryant offers for knitting in her book, Artful Color, Mindful Knits. These create really cool effects, but they take some patience and experimenting.
Semi-Solid Colorways - Semi-Solid colorways use a single color of dye, but there's usually some variation in the depth of shade. In other words, some parts are a little lighter and some are a little darker. Some of these colorways also have speckles. If so, I mention that in the description.
Splashed & Speckled Colorways - These colorways have multiple colors that are placed over the skein in short segments of no more than an inch or two at a time. They often have speckles as well, which are small dots of dye. Because of the varied placement of the dyes, each skein tends to vary more than with other colorway types. Splashed & Speckled colorways are not likely to pool.
Tonal Colorways - Tonal colorways are similar to semi-solid colorways, but they contain different shades of the same color. For example, a tonal colorway that is blue will have multiple shades of blue.
