Happy Friday!

This week I have been going through patterns on Ravelry to choose my own next project. I have been wanting to make a project using three of my favorite colorways on Squoosh DK together, and today I found the pattern I want to use to go with them.

The colorways are West Fork in Autumn, November in My Soul, and Monet’s Cathedral. The first two will be great for autumn and the last one, well, I just love it, so I’m using it. It’s a little hard to see in the photo, but there are several colors that go from one to the next.

Three is such a nice number of skeins for a project. It’s big enough to be substantial without being so big that it takes forever to finish.

While I was looking, I decided to challenge myself to come up a new colorway combinations for my different yarn bases to share with you.

I am adding some shawl and wrap knitting pattern suggestions since it’s definitely shawl weather now.

Let’s get started. Here’s a trio using the same Squoosh DK that I mentioned above. The colorways are La Bohème, November in My Soul, and a Little Princess.

Joji Locatelli’s free Odyssey shawl would work beautifully with these as would her Jodi shawl. Andrea Mowry’s DK-weight version of her Free Your Fade Shawl would be another great choice.

Next up is my new Quick and Cozy Bulky yarn base in three colorways I really love together. I’m having so much fun dyeing this new yarn base. It takes the color quite brilliantly, it’s nice and soft, and it has fabulous stitch definition. I have a skein set aside to use, but I haven’t gotten to play with it quite yet.

The colorways are Pumpkin Spice Latte, Copper Roof, and Turquoise. I think these three together would be great for autumn transitioning into winter. This would look great using Barbara Benson’s Shoot the Moon pattern. I know I said I was going to focus on shawls, but I’m a sucker for cowls, and these would also look great with Laura Aylor’s cowl pattern called Syzygy. If anybody would like to tell me how to pronounce that, I’m all ears.

The rest of the sets I made were all using my various sock-weight or fingering-weight yarn bases. A few pattern possibilities for any of these include Andrea Mowry’s Free Your Fade pattern, Helen Stewart’s Impressionist Shawl, and Anna Johanna’s Shake It Up pattern. These are just a few of the many, many lovely patterns made for a set of three sock-weight skeins.

This first one has Wild Rose, Arizona Sunset, and Cream on my So Silky Sock yarn base. Cream is actually undyed, but I put it through the same process as all my other yarn except for adding dye so that it will match the dyed skeins. I keep separate dye pots just for this  with the words “no dye” written in Sharpies on the outside.

The next set is on my Sparkly Merino Sock yarn base. The colors are Verdigris, Peacock, and Desert Willow. Desert Willow was one of my increasingly rare experiments in color where I didn’t make notes, so unfortunately, I don’t think I can repeat it, but I have two skeins in stock right now.

The next trio is made using my new Dream Sock yarn base. This is just so incredibly soft. It’s made of baby alpaca, silk, and cashmere, so there’s no surprise there. The colorways are Pebbles on the Beach, Smaug’s Treasure, and La Bohème.

Take a look at how differently the La Bohème colorway looks on Dream Sock compared with Squoosh DK above. The alpaca in Dream Sock tends to take dye much more softly than the merino in the Squoosh DK.

Next up is my Cashmere Sock yarn base. The colorways are Peacock, Renaissance Blue, and Cosette. This yarn base is wonderfully squishy and soft.

The last trio of yarn was dyed on my Sock Perfection yarn base. This is the yarn base I always recommend for sock knitters, but it’s certainly not limited to socks. It’s really great for everything–a great combination of softness and strength. The colorways are Nebula, Monet’s Cathedral, and Smitten.

In other news, I am continuing to dye up new semi-solids in that wonderful Alpaca Lace Cloud yarn base I told you about a couple weeks ago.  Here are the colorways I have currently:

These remind me of nothing so much as a lovely soft teddy bear. As I mentioned before, they are great on their own, but my favorite way to use them is to carry the yarn alongside a sock-weight yarn to add wonderful texture. In case you missed it, you an see the infinity scarf pattern I made using this and a sock-weight yarn base right here:

The last thing I want to mention is that today is the very last day to order a Yarn Advent Calendar. After that, I’ll place one last order for more mini skeins and get started dyeing them. I can hardly wait to get started!

Have a wonderful week filled with the joy of the fiber arts. See you next time!