PEACOCK FEATHERS on Stained Glass Sock - Assigned Pooling Colorway

COLORWAY
A long time ago we took the children to a small zoo in Prescott that had free-range peacocks wandering around showing off their beautiful feathers. Ever since then, I have been wanting to make a colorway that was as true to those gorgeous feathers as I could. I decided to make it an assigned pooling colorway, and, well, I hope you love it as much as I do.

The background color is a lichen green with quite a bit of tonal variation, and the dye colors I chose for the "eyes" go from the middle outward just like they do in the feathers. Take a look at the photos I used for inspiration.

YARN BASE
I dyed this colorway on Stained Glass Sock, which is a smooth, soft 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. Each 100 gram skein has 400 yards.

YARN FACTS
Peacock Feathers on Stained Glass Sock
Garden Collection
Assigned Pooling Colorway
400 yards / 3.5 oz / 2 plies
80% superwash merino / 20% nylon
Care: Machine or hand wash cold and air dry.

TIMELINE
This yarn is dyed and ready to ship. I ordinarily ship in 1-2 business days.

YARN PAIRINGS
Peacock Feathers would look fabulous with Peacock Feathers, Enchanted Forest, Freedom Blue, and Chocolate.

SAMPLES
The second to last photo shows two samples I made using Peacock Feathers on Squoosh DK. The one on the left is a hat I knit in plain stockinette. For the square sample on the right, I used two different methods of assigned pooling. The top rows show Dawn Barker's floret stitch from the Float Shawl, and the bottom and larger portion shows simple double-elongated stitches.

The final photo shows my own Metamorphosis shawl knit in this colorway and Peacock Eyes.