New Yarn: Posy + Pocket Posy
Introducing our very first hand-dyed yarn, Posy and its partner, Pocket Posy! Like a cutting garden in full bloom, including the odd little shower and glittering blue-backed beetle, Posy and Pocket Posy are seedlings for the imagination.
One-hundred-gram Posy is big sibling to Pocket Posy, which is the same yarn in a more diminutive 25-gram skein. Both are a super soft blend of 75% superwash merino, 15% cashmere, and 10% nylon. These yarns are machine washable, durable for socks and anything else hard working, and wonderfully soft for the baby in all of us.
A fingering weight, they knit up at a gauge of 7 to 8 1/2 stitches per inch on US sized 00 to 3 needles. Great for sock knitting, you’ll need just one skein of Posy for a pair (plus some Pocket Posies for all those bits of color that make hand-knit socks so fun). Posy is also a wonderful weight for year-round sweaters, baby gear, hats, mittens, and, doubled, squishy, cozy, amazing blankets!
The entire bouquet of eighteen Posy and Pocket Posy colors is beautifully hand dyed in Peru, each skein a subtle play of shades and all inspired by the details and revelations of a flower bed.
Pink Nectar, above, is the sweet juice of a flower, a peaceful, gentle pink, lovely for a timeless baby sweater or blanket.
Sour Gooseberry is an extra special hand-dye with distinct streaks of lemon-lime hues, so tangy your mouth waters.
And because every country garden faces a few breezes and rain clouds every now and then, Weathervane Gray and Drizzle Gray bring grace and elegance and make beautiful backdrops to pops of Pocket Posy color.
Mourning Dove, captured here with Heirloom White (peeking out the back), is as soft and dreamy as its namesake’s coo. It’s a wonderful, warm neutral to offset more fiery colors, like Chili Pepper and Maple Wood.
Deep and enigmatic Black Cherry’s hand-dyed vicissitudes add a curious depth to your knits, perfect for an understated-but-never-boring pair of socks. Couple it with a Pocket Posy in Azalea Glow to add a burst of color to the heels, toes, or cuffs.
When night falls and the moon casts her blue glow on our garden, Beetle Blue and Teal Twilight take center stage. These juicy blues are decidedly sophisticated and mysterious, serene and beguiling.
And of course, no natural world is complete without a crisp Fern Green. We love its clarity and fresh after-the-rain optimism!
Want to dive right into this bounty of color? Get started with the free pattern for our Muhuroosa Blanket! An extraordinary ode to Muhu’s knitting tradition, we were inspired by this Estonian island’s infectious love of color and can’t think of a better way to explore our new Posy and Pocket Posy collections!
And finally, enjoy a good browse of these new yarns! For Posy, click here, and for Pocket Posy, here, and create your own bouquet!
I an looking for a yarn of this type but in DK and another in Worsted weight. Does it com in other weights.
Erdine
Hi Erdine,
Thanks for writing in! Although Posy currently only comes in a fingering weight, you may be interested in Anzula Cricket and For Better or Worsted – although the construction and colorways are a little different, they both are the same fiber content as our Posy and the same easy care instructions.
Happy knitting!
Julianna
Can I use size 1.5 dnp’s for the color block Posey socks?? I love this yarn so much but dont want them to turn out loose or holey with the wrong needles
Hi Molly,
Thanks for reaching out! The best way to determine your needle size for our Easy Heel Colorblock Socks is to knit a gauge swatch. We used a US 0 needle to obtain the gauge of 34 stitches and 50 rows to 4 inches. If you are a very tight knitter, you may be able to get the same gauge using US 1.5 needles; however, there’s no way to tell for sure without knitting a swatch to measure your gauge.
Best of luck and happy knitting!
Julianna
I’ve been looking for a store like this for so sooo long!!!!! I love the colors and the colors with highlights for lack of a better word, all I can say is WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tytytytytytyty I feel I’ve been blessed. Finally a yarn store that gets it!!! The colors are so vibrant and beautiful, the colors of nature and colors of flowers, it seems so simple to me. I also love the materials that you matched the colors with the materials, it’s just perfect and I can not thank you enough for bringing it to fusion, god bless and I’ll be shopping very soon, I just found some patterns and hopefully this website has many more????!!!!
Hi Tammy,
Thank you so much for sharing your enthusiasm – we are so happy that our yarns are such a source of inspiration for you! You can view all of our free patterns by clicking on the link located in the top right hand corner of our site, or by clicking here!
Best,
Julianna
Hello!
I need to pick up an extra amount marigold orange posy for a blanket and unfortunately the pocket posy is out of stock. I figured in the current situation it won’t be coming back in stock anytime soon, but I can just rollover the larger size into a second project. Would you recommend the mourning dove or heirloom white as a pairing for marigold orange in a two color project (aka hand warmers)? I can’t quite tell what tone mourning dove is.
Hi Carolina,
Thanks for reaching out! The Heirloom White would provide higher contrast in colorwork with Marigold Orange, but either would work! I’d describe Mourning Dove as a warm beige – I think the choice would just depend on how much “pop” you want!
Happy Knitting!
Cassandra