Late to the party - but I think this yarn will be perfect (even if NOT fingering weight)… The contrast of the un-dyed yarn with it’s dyed counterpart is just too cool!
This yarn is this year’s first batch of “Naturally dyed” yarn using Pecan Hull ‘soup’ (water + crushed nut hulls), along with a couple of skeins of the un-dyed white yarn. Taking advantage of gradual diminishing of the dye-stuff in the vat… These are skeins #2 and #3 of the same batch, but subsequently dyed… so each is successively lighter. There probably is enough for yet another skein… will see if I need it to finish this pattern. :D
09-07-2017
I’m enjoying having each lace section be a little bit different and alternating colors… keeps my interest (other than the garter stitch ridges - but those are a necessary ‘evil’ to make it all work together!) I’m cutting the non-working color at the beginning of each lace section; since it’s wool, it should stay woven in, and would ‘show’ if I tried to carry the non-used color.
Wondering how many more sections I can make my yarn last through… At the end of Part 4, I will have used a little over 1 skein (15 yards) of each color - and have one more dyed brown skein and some non-white ‘cream colored’ skeins in reserve… Hope I have enough to make a decent sized shawl. :D
09-24-2017
Still plugging along. Did section 6 with some of the off-white and there’s more variation in the Pecan Dyed than I’d like - but, as a friend pointed out, nobody will know but me that it wasn’t supposed to be that way. I see that several folks did each section with a different color - so maybe that will be my ‘look’…
10-03-2017
Finished! Soaking has made it long and skinny… might have to get out my pins and do some aggressive blocking - but could be a lovely scarf wrap like that.