I See The Sea (Yarn Alliance Exclusive Colourway, Sept 2019)
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This colourway is exclusive to current members of the InterStellar Yarn Alliance. If you're not currently in the club, please do not order this yarn. But do feel free to order other colourways from the SpaceCadet shop or join the Club mailing list to be the first to know when it re-opens for subscriptions!
The Colourway:
Two beautiful options
- I See The Sea (the colourway in your parcel)
- Abyss (the coordinating colourway)
It’s funny how things go when we’re creating a new colourway. Sometimes I see the colourway in my head, fully formed and just ready to be dyed. Sometimes it even has its name before I’ve begun. Other times, I just feel myself drawn to a colour and I know I want to explore it. I might have been inspired by something I saw around me, or just feeling playful. Those colourways always get their names once they’re done and I can see what they’ve become. This colourway was the second type.
We knew we wanted to play with blues and the kind of lovely wash-y dyeing effects that work so well with it. But we wanted the colourway to be more complex than that, with layers of different hues flowing into one another. So we began first with a wash of grey and then added another of gentle green, letting them blend together where-ever they met. Then we mixed up a lovely and rich blue and carefully layered it over the other colours so that it struck them unevenly: covering them in some places and allowing them to show through in others. It looked lovely as we turned up the heat to set the dye.
But when the skeins had dried, we realised that our soft green had been a little too soft – it all but disappeared. So we quickly wet the skeins out again and refreshed it: a little more green adding yet another layer of complexity and, this time, the effect was perfect. When the SpaceCadet crew got together to name them, I said, “What do you see in the skeins? I see the sea.” And they all agreed that that was the name!
For the coordinating colour, we took that same soft green as our base, turned up the grey to a lovely charcoal, and then let those two colours shine all on their own. The result is a rich and deep colourway that completely lives up to the name Abyss.
The Yarn:
Aurora is simply delicious! With 20% cashmere, it's amazingly luxurious, and a touch of nylon gives it extra strength.
Fiber Content: 70% Superwash Merino, 20% Cashmere, 10% Nylon; 4-ply
Weight: Fingering; Each skein is approximately 3.5oz/100g, and the yarn contains approximately 350 yards per 100g
Ordering Details:
- Order as many skeins as you like, and we will get them in the dyepots for you! Because this is a custom process, please allow up to 4-6 weeks for your order to be ready.
- Yarn Alliance Members' Price! Aurora is normally priced at $36.99, this colourway is available exclusively to the members of the Yarn Alliance for the special price of $33.
- This yarn will be remain available to order for a full month. The listing will be marked as sold out at 11.59pm (EST) on October 27, 2019.
- A very important note: As you all know, different dyelots rarely match perfectly, especially in hand-dyed yarns. Although we will do everything in our power to replicate the yarns from first dyelot, the yarn you receive may not match perfectly. Do bear this in mind if an exact match is important to you. To minimise any visible impact when using hand-dyed yarns, we always recommend alternating skeins every couple of rows in your project.
Bonus!
Extra Stitch Markers and Notions Dishes!
After the little hiccup with the last gift, we went to two wonderful makers for this parcel! Michelle at Beads And Books created a set of beautiful stitchmarkers that shine like jewels against your project. And our lovely friend Amanda at Pawley Studio hand-crafted a sweet little notion dish to keep them. Don’t they both make you want to cake up your yarn and cast on right now?!?
At SpaceCadet®, we passionately believe that knitting and crocheting make people happier deep down inside and that nothing does that more than working with gorgeous, vibrant yarn. For us, dyeing is a cosmic adventure -- a wonderful process of mixing each shade by hand from primaries and seeing where the colour takes us. The result is yarn that is as exciting for you as it is for us. Come with us and explore the farthest reaches of SpaceCadet® colour!
