If you’ve been following the blog, you know I’ve been working on spinning yarn to use in a brioche scarf for TheEnabler. However, we only found one of the colors needed back in April at the Wonderwool Wales festival and because of the multi-colored nature of the top, we wanted to see how it came out before settling on a final color.
This ended up being the right choice, because we initially thought we’d get a deep blue or indigo, then a plum purple… and finally settled on a deep red.
We perused the colors offered by the same company, since for a brioche I feel it’s a bit more important that the yarns be as similar as possible. Our choice arrived earlier this week:
The color is called Pomegranate and is as lovely as it looked online. Fiber is Harvest Hues from John Arbon Textiles. It’s wonderfully soft, which should be good for a neck to skin scarf, and it smells nice (something even TheEnabler noted – evidence of his prolonged exposure to a spinner).
While I was paying for international shipping, I figured I’m pick up some of their Devonia Tops as well:
The Amber Blaze is exactly what I expected and wanted, I’m quite happy with the Ocean Rain, but the Dark Skies is even nicer than anticipated and while part of me is sad I only purchased 100g, it’s going to be a fantastic contrast to the Amber Blaze in whatever they turn into and I think it will have the most impact as the constrast, not a main color.
They sell their top in 100g lots, but measure out 100g quite generously – all arrived with a bit extra. I’m not sure if they are always generous, or if I nabbed the ends of some dye lots. Unfortunately, the Pomegranate was incorrectly measured out for 100g instead of the 200g ordered.
Mistakes happen and it’s their bad luck the color measured in error was the most important one. John Arbon Textiles is already working on remedying this. Since they have to dye a new lot, I really appreciate that they are sending a new 200g rather than just sending through 100g to make up the difference. How somebody handles errors is as important as trying not to make them, especially in something as low stakes as a fiber or yarn purchase. Let’s be honest – my heath and wellbeing were not at risk. Even if I make the argument that knitting and spinning are critical to my mental health, I can hardly say with a straight face that I have nothing to work on! I’m not even done the first color yet…