The Lilias Day Sweater is designed by Kate Davies (Ravelry link) and knits beautifully in Auchen Light DK. The Lilias Day sets have enough yarn to knit the yoke in all sizes of the sweater and you will probably find you have enough leftover for an accessory or two, or as part of another project. You will need to add the appropriate number of full skeins of Auchen Light DK (I used the undyed Haar) for the body/MC of the sweater – or, of course, you could use another yarn with similar m/100g. My sample is size Three and needed four skeins of Haar as the MC.
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Dark Koselig (55g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Undyed Haar (55g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Indigo (55g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Undyed Haar (30g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Light Indigo (30g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Pearl (30g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Damson (30g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Light Brick (30g)
BFL/Shetland/Cheviot
Farm: The Arr, Craiglands/Inverhouse, St Finbarr’s, Meadows, Craiglands/Muirton, Culgowrie
Metres per 100g: approx 260m/100g /100g
Black Isle Yarns are gently and minimally processed by The Border Mill from real animals who enjoy an outdoor life (in beautiful surroundings, lucky beasts!) – consequently you may find the odd bit of vegetation in your yarn, these are easy to remove as you knit and, if you’re lucky enough to find some, I hope will remind you of the special animals who have grown your yarn!
2. I do my best to show the yarn colours as accurately as possible but please be aware that colours do vary from monitor to monitor
3. Your yarn should be gently hand washed in cool water using pH neutral wool wash such as Eucalan or Soak. This may seem time consuming at first but should soon become an enjoyable part of working with a gently treated natural product.
4. All my dyed colours have been thoroughly washed and rinsed however there may be a slight release of residual colour on washing – this shouldn’t change the overall yarn colour or alter other colours.
