PEACOCK FEATHERS Hand Dyed on Stained Glass Fingering - Assigned Pooling Yarn
PEACOCK FEATHERS Hand Dyed on Stained Glass Fingering - Assigned Pooling Yarn
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A long time ago we took the children to a small zoo in Prescott that had free-range peacocks wandering around showing off their beautiful feathers. Ever since then, I have been wanting to make a colorway that was as true to those gorgeous feathers as I could. I decided to make it an assigned pooling colorway, and, well, I hope you love it as much as I do.
The background color is a lichen green with quite a bit of tonal variation, and the dye colors I chose for the "eyes" go from the middle outward just like they do in the feathers. Take a look at the photos I used for inspiration.
YARN BASE
I dyed this colorway on Stained Glass Fingering, which is a smooth, soft 2-ply yarn made of 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon. The thing that makes Stained Glass Fingering 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. Each 100 gram skein has 400 yards.
YARN FACTS
Peacock Feathers on Stained Glass Fingering
Garden Collection
Assigned Pooling Colorway
400 yards / 3.5 oz / 2 plies
80% superwash merino / 20% nylon
Care: Machine or hand wash cold and air dry.
YARN PAIRINGS
Peacock Feathers would look fabulous with Peacock Feathers, Enchanted Forest, Freedom Blue, and Chocolate.
SAMPLES
The last photo shows two samples I made using Peacock Feathers on Squoosh DK. The one on the left is a hat I knit in plain stockinette. For the square sample on the right, I used two different methods of assigned pooling. The top rows show Dawn Barker's floret stitch from the Float Shawl, and the bottom and larger portion shows simple double-elongated stitches.
I also included a photo of my Metamorphosis Shawl pattern knit in this colorway and Peacock Eyes.
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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.
