I was looking at yarn the other day (so what else is new?) and found some marvelous sets of colors that just looked perfect together. And then I was exploring patterns and found so so sooooo many that would work beautifully with this idea of sets of yarn.
And so I got an idea! Tah dah!
Here we present Sets!
What is this, you might ask?
Sets! are groupings of yarn that work together perfectly.
And at a lovely discount of 5% to 10% (this one is a bit more)!
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The Yarns of this Set!
These particular sets are close-to-but-not-quite the same as a grab bag: you will know beforehand exactly what you are getting and can repeat it as needed.
Each of these sets are composed of one each of these yarns:
1. Our first yarn of each set is new fingering weight wool blend from Louisa Harding called Luci. Of 41% Virgin Wool, 41% Acrylic, 18% Viscose, each pre-wound ball has 349 yards/ 100g.
The yarn is plied and the colorways have lovely long-ish color runs, not quite as long as some like Noro, but long enough to create great sections of color.
2. Our second yarn of each set is from Kelbourne Woolens, their Andorra. Each skein is 60% Merino Wool/ 20% Highland Wool/ 20% Mohair, with 185 yards (169m) per 50g skein.
The colorways here are solid colors, chosen to pick up a hue in the Luci yarn without blending to much and getting lost.
For the Sets! that we list on this webpage below, each set consists of one skein of each for a total of two skeins.
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The Sets Themselves
A: Luci in Carnelian, with cool tones of wine and sky blue, rose and violet, pink, gray, and just a bit of gold.
Cloud Gray is our Andorra for this set. It is a delciously silvery gray.
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B: Luci in Aurora, beautifully rich Autumn colors including purple, wine, teal, green, orange and gold.
The Andorra colorway is Sunshine Yellow, a perfect goldenrod hue.
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C: Luci is in a colorway called Borealis, a mix of rich forest tones, with varying browns, rust, dark red, and some gray.
Andorra is Holly Red, a bit brighter than the red of the Luci but a perfect accompaniment.
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D: Andesine is the Luci colorway. This is of cool colors, a blending of mostly blues and pinks, including deep navy and sky blue, rose and a bit of golden brown as well.
The Andorra is Blueberry, a cool medium blue.
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Just A Few Pattern Suggestions:
Two sets would make a lovely version of Protea
Check out Dragontail and Rainbow's End.
This one is perfect for just one set: Tall Grass
One set will be plenty for Pop Sizzle.
Another lovely brioche design, this one a bit simpler, that one set would be great for: Basync Bricohe.
The list could go on and on and on and on. I just picked these to give you the general idea....
Beads
Not all of the designs I found use beads, though there are lots (and lots and lots) of others that I didn't list here.
If you would like to add one 35g container of 6/0 beads (about 400 to 420 beads) there is that option via the drop-down menu above labeled "Kits."
The beads will be selected to go with your yarn set. If you have any sort of color preference, let me know. Otherwise I will choose for you.
