![]() ![]() The deep dark Love Note is a blend of La Bien Aimée Merino Singles in ‘rust’ with La Bien Aimée Mohair Silk in ‘undergrowth’. The Love Note pullover uses La Bien Aimee … over. I REALLY love this effect, it’s what we used when I made the Love Note sweaters, and for the heavy-weight version of the Posy shawl too. When you blend a darker or more saturated mohair with a lighter yarn, the paler colourway seems to glow underneath a deeper halo. Sticking to a single colourway is a beautiful way to combine yarns, but I’m personally more intrigued with mixing DIFFERENT colours, and finding out what kind of effects I can achieve! darker mohair + lighter yarn You can see how the mohair and merino are slightly different colours, and the depth and shine this adds to the finished fabric. You can see that while they are the same colour, the merino is lighter while the mohair adds a darker halo.Īlexa is also making herself a holiday party sweater Love Note in La Bien Aimée Merino Singles and Mohair silk in ‘Shire’ a deliciously vivid green. She is knitting it up in La Bien Aimee singles and mohair, both in the ‘shire’ colourway. This is Alexa’s Love Note holiday sweater in the works. The above example is a blend of La Bien Aimée Merino Singles with La Bien Aimée Mohair Silk, both in the iconic ‘yellow brick road’ colourway. When working a mohair lace with a sock yarn in the same colourway, the blended colour will essentially come out very much the same as if you were knitting in a single colour while the mohair lace takes the dye slightly differently than the merino yarn, the overall effect is fairly similar. Underneath is the ‘yellow brick road’ mohair with ‘romance’ merino. mohair + yarn in the SAME colourway The top left of this swatch is La Bien Aimee’s ‘yellow brick road’ colourway on both mohair and merino. ![]() Are you curious about how, physically, to knit two yarns together? We’ve got a post here all about marling, and a post here that explains how to work with two strands held together. There are a few different ways to blend mohair with another yarn using a yarn that is the same colourway, a darker colourway or a lighter colourway. Through extensive swatching, I have some strategies to share on how to select colour combinations when combining a lace weight mohair with a sock weight yarn! Combining or ‘blending’ mohair with another yarn So I got to work perfecting the details and developing colour combinations that would work with the soft and romantic palette I envisioned for our Paris trip. What a difference combining makes!Īlexa saw my photos and said ‘WE MUST PUBLISH THAT PATTERN’. I swatched various yarns that I had alongside the pink mohair, and could tell right away that the speckle would be a winner! On the far right you can see the pink mohair and next to it the yarns I swatched alongside. It was a set of impulses that would really come together! Last year, I had a wedding to go to, and the world’s love of pink was really ramping up, so I decided a pink sweater had to happen, right?! I also found myself irresistibly drawn to this hot pink Skein Queen Floof. Years ago at Edinburgh Yarn festival I impulse-bought a couple single skeins of La Bien Aimée yarn in ‘Aimée’s sweater’ and ‘neon static’.
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