Butterfly Collection - QUINO CHECKERSPOT BUTTERFLY on Stained Glass Sock - Hand-Dyed Yarn

COLORWAY
When I first started using the Stained Glass Sock yarn base, I loved the idea of creating a collection of butterfly colorways using it, and I finally did it! 

I used the Quino Checkerspot butterfly as the inspiration for this colorway. I included a photo of this beautiful butterfly with fine checkerspots of white, orange, and black.

YARN BASE
I dyed it on Stained Glass Sock, which is a soft and squishy 2-ply yarn made of 80% superwash merino and 20% nylon. The thing that makes Stained Glass Sock uniquely wonderful is that one ply is made of white wool while the other alternates between black and white, so when I dye the yarn, it looks like leaded stained glass--or in this case the black lines in butterflies' wings. Each 100 gram skein has 400 yards.

YARN FACTS
Quino Checkerspot Butterfly on Stained Glass Sock
Garden Collection
Splashed & Speckled Colorway
400 yards / 3.5 oz / 2 plies
80% superwash merino / 20% nylon
Care: Machine or hand wash cold and air dry.

YARN PAIRINGS
The last photo shows a fantastic fade made with four different butterfly colorways. The colorways are named after the butterfly species I used as the inspiration. From left to right the colorways are Quino Checkerspot, Indian Jezebel, Monarch Butterfly, and Colorado Hairstreak.

PATTERN SUGGESTIONS
Here are some suggestions for knitting patterns that would look great with five butterfly colorways together. The links lead to the specific patterns on Ravelry.

*Fading Point by Joji Locatelli
*Saturate by Mara Catherine Bryner
*Mixology by Casapinka
*Fadient Destash Wrap by Xandy Peters
*Mothwings by Larissa Brown
*Inward Wrap by Marsha Healey