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It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving week without me dyeing up some Cornbread & Cranberry on Deep Sock, Neptune DK and Nautilus BFL Aran. It also wouldn’t be turkey day without one of my two annual sales. My whole shop is marked 20% off through Monday night, including my newest base. Check out my Targhee non-superwash worsted weight, a plump squishy 4 ply weighing in at 270 yards per 115-gram skein. Perfect for that new winter sweater or some quick holiday gift knitting.
Milling your own custom base is thrilling, scary and a great leap of faith. I knew just what I wanted when I developed my Cormo sportweight 2-ply. Something bouncy, a bit lofty, soft for a non-Superwash yarn, that would work equally well for cables and textures and stranded colorwork.
I launched this new base at this year’s Indie Untangled show and finally have it all restocked, photo’ed and listed in my Etsy shop. 100% USA sourced from Wyoming flocks and milled in Montana, it meets all my expectations. It takes color beautifully, both dusty, muted tones and bright, saturated colors. Enjoy 14 hand-dyed colors as well as Butt Naked — the undyed, natural cream. Perfect for warm winter sweaters as well as seasonal accessories.
When Sharon Hartley of @riverroadknits and I first started talking about yarn for Light Academia, the planned bright cousin to her amazing Dark Academia sweater, she spoke of sunny libraries, green ivy climbing up ivory towers, a walk through fallen leaves with a good book in hand. The architectural elements are expressed in lace and textured stitches, flowing into colorwork vines of ivy at the bottom of the yoke. The bottom maintains the archway motif as floral elements fill in the arches and frame the colorwork.
The pattern is currently in testing with an official release date slated for November 12, but Sharon is pre-releasing it today, in case you want to start thinking of yarn while shopping the shows over Rhinebeck weekend. Her sample, along with kits in the original colorway of my Deep Sock base and several other color options, will be in my booth at the Indie Untangled trunk show. You may get to meet the designer herself, as she’ll be at the show most of the afternoon.
Meet the newest addition to my Merino, silk and yak-blend bases — Yakima DK! This 60% Merino, 20% silk and 20% yak has all the special qualities of my fingering and laceweight versions. It has fantastic drape and softness. The silken sheen with the added heathered effect from the silvery-brown yak fibers lends a luminescence that’s out of this world.
Yakima DK is the same construction as my Neptune and Triton bases, a nice plump round 4-ply, which lends to great stitch definition and body. This is the perfect base for a new favorite sweater or cozy shawl or cowl. Available in 18 colors, a combination of multis and coordinating solids.
Back-to-school season brings dreams of fall knitting and anticipation of leaf peeping time. I created Saugerties Sunrise last year as an exclusive color for my local Hudson Valley yarn store @perfectblendyarnshop and am releasing it now in my Etsy shop for everyone to enjoy. A fiery tribute to peak fall color, it captures the evergreen pines, deep red maples and the various greens of our native beech, hemlock and plane trees.
Available on Deep Sock, Neptune DK and Mirage kid mohair and silk, and this year I’ve added a Deep Sock mini skein set using the five solids I combine to dye this blazing multi. There’s plenty of time to knit yourself something to coordinate with the scenery on Rhinebeck weekend!
I’ve also released a brand new Fall inspired color, Mesa, which is a whole different take on earth tones. A combination of some of my favorite warm and cool colors, overwashed with a deep, cool brown. Currently offered on Deep Sock, Harbour Singles fingering and Neptune Merino DK.
Just in time for sweater weather, designer Sharon Hartley (@riverroadknits on Instagram) has released her Dark Academia sweater, available now on Ravelry. Knit in my Deep Sock base, this top-down, circular sweater is inspired by dusty libraries, autumn’s chill, and (of course) gothic architecture. The subtle puff of the bishop sleeve adds a bit of flair to the simple silhouette. This size-inclusive pattern comes in 10 sizes, up to a 66.5” bust. I’m offering kits in the original No More Shall We Part with Never Enough Thyme color combo, along with four other haunting options. Bonus, if you are attending the Indie Untangled trunk show, you can see Sharon’s original sample in person.
In other news, if you can’t make it to the Indie Untangled show this year, no need for FOMO. I am taking preorders on my 2022 show color, Mountain Majesty, inspired by the local flora this beautiful time of year on both my Deep Sock and my Neptune Merino DK bases. Register for free and head on over to my Indie Untangled Everywhere virtual booth from October 14-November 1 for a link to my listing for Mountain Majesty.
I have been a big fan of Caitlin Sheperd of @pluckypigeonknits for so many years. It’s hard to beat her original and creative design, especially when it comes to colorwork sweaters. We’ve talked about collaborating for a long time and finally her first pattern release using my yarn is today!
Blooming Peerie Cardigan is a whimsical wee knit that brings to mind the joy of early spring when coveted blooms reappear in the garden. The deceptively easy colour patterning is accomplished through a clever slipped stitch technique and only two colours per row! Blooming Peerie Cardigan is knit in the round with a raglan yoke, steeked button band, and short rows to shape the neck. The pattern is available on Ravelry.
This little cardigan is knit in my soft and lofty Sanctuary yarn. A fine 100% non-Superwash Merino wool, it has a wonderful bounce to it and lovely next-to-skin softness while still maintaining excellent stitch definition – perfect for children’s colorwork. This fun knit is pure colour happiness in wool form. Caitlin used colors Butt Naked with Prince of Darkness, Taos 2000, Salted Caramel and Mystic but I have nearly 30 colors in stock for you to choose from.
We just returned from a quick road trip to coastal Maine for a little antiquing, lobster roll-ing and fun in the sun. Now it’s full steam ahead dyeing for the fall shows, yarn crawls and a few special projects. Before I get too far, I really need to free up some space on the yarn shelves so I’ve put nearly 100 different listings on sale. Items range from my lace bases to Sparkle Sock, Deep Sock, Harbour fingering, DK and a few sock-weight fade sets. All sale items are 20% off — no coupon code required, discount taken at checkout. Hope you find something you like!
Summer is the time I most love my home in the Hudson Valley. After the beautiful but bleak colors of an upstate winter, I soak up the amazing range of hues nature offers. I don’t even have to step outside to enjoy our avian friends, as long as the bears leave our strategically placed bird feeders alone.
New colors Grackle and Grosbeak both feature layers of moody tones, with warm and iridescent golds peaking through, overdyed with a brilliant blue. Tadpole Alley is amphibian green in a sea of azure inspired by activity in our seasonal stream in the late spring. Grackle comes on Deep Sock, Neptune Merino DK and may be the most stunning version on Harbour Merino Singles fingering. Grosbeak, for now, comes on Deep Sock and Neptune, while Tadpole Alley needs the subtle sheen of Harbour to really wow.
Moving farther afield, I am lucky to have quick access to the many mountain groups in the area, which prompted me to create Bear Mountain and The Gunks — the loving nickname for the Shawangunks, a mecca for climbers across the Northeast. Built from layers of stone and verdant greens, they both have subtle specks of sunlight and earthy deep brown. In addition to offering these two on Deep Sock and Neptune Merino DK, I dyed up a five color mini skein set in fingering called Catskill Climber.
Perhaps unrelated but still sitting pretty with this new grouping is French Roast, inspired by one of the most important things in my life! Successive dye baths of three different browns makes this a truly rich brew. Available on Deep Sock and Triton MCN DK.
Since I dyed all of these using my favorite technique of laying bath after bath of different colors, it’s not surprising how they fit so well in my existing range, and that I feel like I’ve been dyeing them forever.
It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that Murky Depths launched four years ago this week. It both seems like I’ve been doing this for just a minute and also forever! All I know is that it’s been a great run so far and I look forward to many more years.
To celebrate, I’m having a small sale and introducing my newest base. Everything in my Etsy store will be 15% off from Thursday, March 17 through Monday, March 21. Discount will be applied at checkout, no code required.
Included will be my brand new Yakima Fingering, a Merino/silk/yak singles base. This yarn has it all – feather soft with a subtle halo, and the natural silver grey in its undyed state lends an iridescence that has to be seen. While I’ve offered the lace version of this since I opened shop, I’m so excited to introduce the fingering version which comes in oversized, 120-gram skeins for a whopping 523 yards so you can make an oversized shawl or even a sweater from just two or three skeins.
Thanks for supporting me during my first four years and look for more new spring items to show up soon.
