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Wicked Seeds, a monthly club inspired beautiful but deadly plants, goes live Saturday April 2, at 10am ET
The yarn is our Nectar Base: 60% SW Merino | 20% Yak | 20% Silk | 100G | 400 yds

Daffodil or Narcissus is one of the first flowers that pop up with the coming of spring. The delicate yellow, peach, white and salmon flowers are one of the few that can push up through the snow and stay in bloom for the majority of the season but it is a bad omen if the first daffodils of the year are seen with their heads towards you.

While the origin of the names are disputed one of them points us to the Greek myth about Narcissus who fell so much in love with his reflection he wasted away, died and then was turned into a flower, the daffodil. It’s been thought the name came more from the word Narcao “ to become numb” which is what any part of this plant will do to you. Just this harbinger of spring’s scent in an enclosed space can cause headaches and vomiting. The bulb, if ingested, causes the paralysis of the central nervous system leading to collapse and eventual death.

Because of these traits Daffodils are associated with death in the Greko-Roman world and commonly used in funeral wreaths in early Egypt. It is also said that Hades used daffodils to first lure Persephone into the Underworld.

Spring Equinox Sunday, March 20, 10a ET

Spring Finals is the final set of colors to our seasonal collections. A time of year where the end of the cold harsh winter days are coming to a close, the days are getting longer and we are crawling out of cold dark blanket piles into warm fields and open windows. The start of lazy peaceful days falling into a new romance novel or story of your choosing and those small details that you hold onto to keep you going through the rest of the year.⁠ Introducing four new coordinating colors inspired by warm mornings and fuzzy feelings while reading.

A Blush Crept: A delicate pink peach with speckles of gold, saffron and warm greens and browns. A flush upon the yarn not unlike the one you cannot stop as a quick remark brings on warm feelings you didn’t dare acknowledge until now. Pondering if its the new heat of the day or something else. ⁠
Opia: Warm gold under toned greens springing to life. A (in the most loving sense) swampy green tonal invoking the warm lush sense of a forest in bloom
Deny This: Warm charcoals with brown to gold undertones. This shadowy tonal embracing secrets that threaten to come into the light. A command or a challenge to fight those dark warming feelings.⁠
Oh Darling: Smoky grungy lavender tonal. A delicate tonal skein not unlike the shift in tone from that infuriating tease of a name that turns into a quiet declaration. ⁠

Bases Available
Fig Lace (70/30 Kid Mohair/Silk) Lace Weight
Marie Cutie (75/25 SW Corriedale/Nylon) Fingering Weight
Penny (80/10/10 SW Merino/Cashmere/Nylon) Fingering Weight
PolDK (100 SW Polwarth) Dk Weight
and
✵NEW✵ Travelers (100 NonSuperwash Targhee) Worsted Weight

The Wicked Seeds monthly club is a 12-month long release of colors inspired by poisonous plants and their lore on a new and exclusive to this club base. Each color will be released ready to ship on the first Saturday of each month starting March 5, 10am ET

Nectar: 60% SW Merino 20% Yak 20% Silk | 100G | 400yds
Nectar has a stunning shine and deep grey base creating a moody depth to the colors that make this club sing.

March: Lily of the Valley
This small delicate bell white flower appears in the first moments of spring. While the Victorians use this flower to symbolize peace, happiness and harmony it is also called the harbinger of death. All parts of this plant from the leaves to the red berries that grow after flowering are highly poisonous, even ingesting a small amount brings on reduced heart rate, blurred vision, vomiting and more. Its only medicinal use had been distilling the flower becoming so effective against strokes and similar ailments it was stored in gold and silver vessels.

Over the month of December we shared the five colors of the Dark Academic Yarn Countdown and now in January we are releasing them as our Winter Break Collection.

A warm and moody collection capturing the deep tones of mahogany office tucked behind stacks of books in the library on a dark winter day, the only illumination from the cackling fire warming your outstretched legs as you rest another leather bound book down.

Colors from left to right: Ana Carem – Sonder – Raxeira – Numinous – Yugen
Shawl: Aftersome by Samantha Guerin Designs