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Ling/ Special Dye Set/ Changing Skies

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What we want to offer here is a special set of Ling, dyed in a beautiful gradiance set specially set up to look amazing with triangular or crescent shaped shawls. Let me explain:

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First about the yarn.

Ling is a lace weight with a delicious blend of fibers (70% superwash merino and 30% cultivated silk). The cultivated silk adds that marvelous sheen that silk can give to a piece. It is slightly thinner than the Eos (less fuzzy) and a crisper overall look. It feels amazing.

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About the colorway:

We asked Kelly and Laura to take three close skeins of some of our exclusive gradiance colorways to make a special set of three skeins, designed to create a really lovely garment.

We know that the top of a triangular or crescent shawl have shorter rows and so a smaller amount of color would appear for a longer span of length. So we worked with Kelly and Laura and worked out dyeing colorways composed of three special skeinettes. The first (for the beginning part -- or the end part, depending on how the pattern is knit) uses only 100 yards. Then the next part of the gradiance continues with 325 yards and the third offers 475 yards. That way the shawl has a proper balance of colors, and a total yardage of 900 yards, in this case in Ling lace weight.

Neat idea, yes? You get the yarn that you need, in the amount that works well for your design and dyed so that it looks wonderful as a gradiance.

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We have here Changing Skies, a marvelous colorway that goes from a soft sky blue (the larger skein) into the addition of hints of pink to suggest the sun just thinking about setting. Beautiful.

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Some ideas of pattern that would look amazing with this:

Three Quarter Time Shawl

Norwegian Woods

Diamond Fantasy

Barksdale Ferry (smallest size)

There may be others but these were the first to strike me. Use our Search engine to find these.

Oh, and if you are not familiar with this whole Gradiance concept of dyeing, email me and we'll explain. It is a wonderful way to have colors gradually change over the range of your garment and such fun!

I am so very pleased with this idea!


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