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Yarn Alliance Exclusive Colourway, September 2023

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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:

Three beautiful options

    • Too Sweet to be Spoopy (the graphically variegated colourway in your parcel)
    • Hayrides & Corn Mazes (a semi-solid coordinating colourway)
    • It's Spoopy Season (a painterly variegated coordinating colourway)

Here in Pittsburgh, there is a change in the air. Summer is drawing to a close, the air is growing crisper, and the leaves are beginning to turn. And when that change turns into full blown Autumn, it creates no end of inspiration!

But as we stand at the dyepots coming up with ideas, we decided to sidestep the more usual autumn hues and go for something a little different. Golds and oranges are a natural starting point, but purple? Well, pure purple adds both a touch of the unexpected and, even more fun, when it mixes with warmer hues, it creates a delightfully muted khaki that, while not so stereotypically autumnal, feels perfectly right for the season nonetheless.

We started by mixing a very warm gold. When working with yellow-based hues, it takes only the slightest change to the dye mix to radically change the result, so we were debating over drops – literally drops – of extra red or black. Eventually we settled on the right blend of gold and orange, and submerged part of the skein into it, leaving the end of yarn undyed and natural.

Then we mixed a rich, moody purple and plunged the skeins into it, letting it soak up until it just kissed the gold-orange. And where it did, it created hints of that muted khaki that I mentioned earlier. And then, just for added depth of shade, we created a deep charcoal, and layered that over the purple, letting it billow in the dyewater and cast a lovely shadow across part of the skein.

The result is a bold colourway that is both fun and bright in some places, and moody and muted in others, with little surprises (like that khaki) along the way to delight you as they move across your stitches.


The Coordinating Colourways:

And for the coordinating colourways, we used the same hues in completely different dyeing techniques. In our painterly skein, the dyes saturate the whole skein to give a more intense feel to the colours, and flow over one another freely, creating washes of khaki throughout. And in our semi-solid, we dyed the whole skein in the gold-orange before layering over that deep charcoal for a beautiful glazed effect. Use either (or both!) of them in stripes, as accents, or in colour blocking. Or just for a stunning project all on their own.

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

Bonus! Extra Project Bags!

With autumn yarn show season upon us, I thought it might be fun to have a new project bag to take your WIP with you (or to fill with all the new skeins you’ll be adding to your stash!). I love that this one has both handles and backpack-style drawstrings. And of course, our happy SpaceCadet is along to keep you company.

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 November 5 2023.
  • 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.

 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!