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Fiber Friday – Juxtaposition Edition

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.

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Azalea Hemp Laceweight

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Azalea Recycled Silk

Pumpkin Handspun

Pumpkin Handspun

Butternut Squash
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!

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  • http://www.thekniftyknitter.blogspot.com/ Melissa

    Gah! I was at SAFF today and, sadly, did not see you :(

  • http://blondechicken.blogspot.com blondechicken

    Bummer!
    There were too many people to really “see” anyone, but I'm sad we didn't get to meet!

    Tara

    Blonde Chicken Boutique
    Local, Sustainable, Colorful Yarn

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  • http://blondechicken.blogspot.com blondechicken

    Bummer!
    There were too many people to really “see” anyone, but I'm sad we didn't get to meet!

    Tara

    Blonde Chicken Boutique
    Local, Sustainable, Colorful Yarn

    ________________________________