Autumn =/= Orange

I said yesterday's shop upload would be inspired by Autumn colors, yes?




So where's the orange? Well, one thing I noticed during recent walks was that as much as I love orange--and red--and red-orange--and yellow-orange--and as prevalent as these colors are right now, they're really not the only game in town during Fall.

OK, I did a little orange.



This is all on a beautiful new Polwarth wool & silk sport-weight yarn (which I'd anticipated as being worsted weight, for some reason; go figure). The skeins are generously-sized, and as you can see from the listing pics, many of the colors go quite well together, even if they're very different. Of course, not everyone has the same "PUT IT ALL IN THE POT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS" color aesthetic I have, so I dyed the yarns in pairs...sort of.

The green from "Autumn Roses," for instance, is the base for the green in "Turning Leaves." The yellow in "Sunny Day" is quite close to the yellow of "Yellow Squash." "Shadow" and "Pleiad" have similar approaches to gray; etc.

Fiber next week; it's dry, but I haven't gotten around to examining it for problems, fluffing it up, braiding it, and photographing it. By the time the upload's all gathered together, there may be batts as well. In the meanwhile, here's some more orange for you orange fans:



I show that off not because I'm selling it--no, it's all mine!--but because I did spin it from Laughing Rat Studio fiber, namely Shetland top in the "Complementary" colorway. If you like the look of the yarn, there's more Shetland top in the shop right now, in a similar colorway! I enjoyed spinning the Shetland; it was easy to get a fairly fine single from it without overtwisting, and it's a lofty, springy fiber. As you can see, even though I smoothed the singles down with my fingertips as I went, they still had the tendency to be slightly fuzzy. The yarn turned out fairly fluffy despite being spun worsted, and clocked in at 3.8 oz./622+ yards.