I love to play with texture in my knitting, matching a smooth yarn with a scrappy one, or supercrazybulky yarn with a teeny tiny lace yarn.

It’s even more fun to play with it in the dyepot. Nearly every non-wool fiber I dye gets a “dyepot buddy”: cotton + banana, silk + hemp. Every fiber takes the color a little differently so the resulting yarns “match” without being identical.

I’m smitten with the depth this lends the knit or crocheted item.

My favorite combination is matte + shiny.

Here are are a few matte + shiny matching-ish yarns added to the Boutique this week.

Azalea Hemp Laceweight

Azalea Recycled Silk

Pumpkin Handspun

Butternut Squash Recycled silk

What are your favorite way to combine yarns?

PS. I’ll be at SAFF today, from 9-2. If you see me, say hi!