Sometimes I think my creative life reads a little like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. One thing leads to another. Last week I introduced the new Splashed and Speckled Jane Austen colorways. I realized I should make another semi-solid to go with them, so I made Renaissance Blue. That one isn’t new, but it hasn’t been available for awhile. Renaissance Blue is a lighter version of Annunciation Blue.

After I made Renaissance Blue, I thought how nice it would be to have a blue gradient, so I created an even lighter shade, which I named Serenity Blue. Here are all three blues together:

That got me thinking about how nice it would be to have a purple gradient too. I decided to create a new colorway halfway between Lilac and Eggplant. I called it Berry:

Here are Lilac, Berry, and Eggplant together:

I listed all the new colorways individually with the ready-to-ship yarn here and the dyed to order colorways here.

I also listed both the blue and the purple gradients in the Three Skein Shawl Sets right here.

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New Mini Skein Set

After I made the new Berry colorway, I thought it would be fun to make some mini skein sets that combine the three purple semi-solids and some matching Splashed and Speckled colorways. I made this new mini skein set called Purple Joy on Silken Fingering:

The colorways are Lilac, Kristin Lavransdatter, Berry, Purple Delight, and Eggplant. I dyed them on Silken Fingering. which is made of 80% superwash merino and 20% silk. Each skein has 80 yards and 20 grams, so the whole set has 400 yards and 100 grams–the equivalent of a full-sized skein of fingering-weight yarn. It would be great for a one-skein wonder like these.

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