Colour inspiration, fibres and ideas for the next project. Notes from the world of Forest Yarn.
Have a pattern you love, but not the yarn it calls for? This guide walks through thickness, metreage, swatches, fibre behaviour and practical substitutes — including what to…
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Bark is a deep, chocolate-cool brown with a softening grey. That lets it sit as a background for other colours — just…
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Dark Forest is a deep, cool green, so bluish it edges toward sea tones. It is the green of dark, misty days:…
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Fluff is white, but a different white — an almost ashen off-white. That grey dusting darkens it enough for Autumn and deeper…
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Sky is an ideal blue: light but not pale, powder-soft, cool and so balanced it never tips into violet or turquoise. Perfect…
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Mulberry is a deep rose where red and violet meet. It can read as cool as a berry violet, yet there is…
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Fog is a delicate, light, cool grey: the kind that drifts through grass at dawn or hangs above the trees after rain.…
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Lamb is a so-called natural white — a creamy-grey “dark white”, really a pale beige we still call white. For Light types…
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Sparrow — 801 — is a taupe brown: muted and cool, coffee-toned with a hint of red/rose. Mid-value, it becomes the darker…
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Birch is 75% baby alpaca and 25% mulberry silk: soft, light and full of halo. Meet the yarn, needle ideas and the…
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Stormy Sky is best described as a calm cobalt: cool, deep, intense but not loud — striking and elegant. It belongs with…
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Rowanberry is a warm, gentle, darker red inspired by rowan berries. It is the ideal red for Autumn colouring, and in the…
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