Lottie

Sample it!

It's that time again, yes, this week we're giving you all the chance to buy our yarns at just over the wholesale price in minimums of 500g, but just for this week, giving you a chance to sample the delights in small quantities.  

It's the perfect chance to try our new bases, such as our brand new Yak Merino Silk Singles 4ply, so why not experiment with something new?  

Bronze Sparkle Sock (Type 49158)

Bronze Sparkle Sock (Type 49158)

Our entire range sectioned into 500g packs will go live here on the Bluefaced.com Special Offers page at 6pm BST on Sunday 23rd October and will be available in these smaller packs at the special price for one week only!  

Happy Dyeing!

Jeni

Stunning new Yak Merino Silk Singles 4ply

Yes, it's new yarn time and our latest base is a keeper.  I certainly want to keep all of it, but apparently, I'm not allowed!  

Meet the soft buttery gorgeousness that is Yak Merino Silk Singles 4ply:  

We know how much you love our grey Yak bases for the way they create depth of colour when overdyed and we also know how many of you love single ply yarns, so we decided to combine the two to make an awesome new yarn!  

Obviously we had to try it out as soon as it arrived!  

It works really well in shades of semi solid yellow, so don't be afraid to try paler colours!  

We tried a complex tonal variegated too and found it almost gives an iridescent effect where the dyes have layered up, so you could create some real showstoppers with this.  

Available in 120g skeins (480m per skein), this is the perfect yarn for shawls and will have a gorgeous drape when knitted up.  Jeni has already claimed the yellow skein!  

We can't wait to see what you do with it!  

New Yarns, Hand Spun

New Andean hand spun yarns!!

Our newest yarns have just arrived and this time we have something quite different from our other ranges, two beautiful hand spun yarns! 

Meet Marshmallow Hand Spun: 

Marshmallow Super Chunky

...and Spira Hand Spun:

We are really excited about these two new yarns, hand spun in the highland communities of Puno, the main Alpaca producing region of Peru. 

The women living in communities of Alpaca shepherds have a long history of traditional textile skills going back generations including hand spinning, which the program helps to preserve.  

Combining their skills with modern yarn designs has created these beautiful hand spun yarns which are not only wonderful to dye and knit with but also provide these small highland communities with more trade, enabling them to maintain their way of life as it has been for generations.  By supporting this program we are helping to keep their skills alive and also the mountain villages themselves, where sheep and alpaca have been farmed for centuries, keeping families together by giving them the opportunity to earn money without having to move away from rural areas.  

So, I guess you'd like to know a bit more about the yarns? 

Marshmallow Hand Spun is a beautifully soft single ply super chunky yarn spun from 100% super fine alpaca, with approx. 40m per 100g skein, this yarn is lovely and squishy, perfect for cosy accessories!  We can't stop petting this skein, it's so soft!  

Spira Hand Spun is a single ply yarn with a wonderful texture, a little thinner than Marshmallow Hand Spun, with 50m per 100g skein.  A mix of super fine alpaca and Peruvian Highland wool, this yarn has a very subtle variations in colour when dyed thanks to the way the two types of fibre take up the dye differently.  We've got in three lovely shades for you to choose from in this yarn too!  Two of the shades use white wool together with a different natural shade of alpaca fibre, and the third uses natural white:

Three gorgeous natural shades in our new Spira Hand SpunClockwise from top: Mid grey, white and fawn

Three gorgeous natural shades in our new Spira Hand Spun

Clockwise from top: Mid grey, white and fawn

We were so excited to see how these yarn dyed up and we've not been disappointed! 

Here's how they dyed up!  Clockwise from top left: Mid grey, fawn, white

Here's how they dyed up!  

Clockwise from top left: Mid grey, fawn, white

We particularly love the way the mid grey yarn dyes, it would be absolutely stunning dyed with jewel colours like teal, sapphire blue, purple or ruby (too many ideas and not enough time!).  Grey yarns give a wonderful depth of colour when dyed, so don't be scared of trying them.