Winkie is a tribute to the amazing homing pigeons who delivered messages behind enemy lines during the war. Winkie was a real-life pigeon who won the Dickin Medal in 1943 and has a statue in her honor in Dundee. Winkie is a purpley blue-leaning yarn with flashes of plum and green (just like a real pigeon!) The camera isn’t picking up the fun pinky-purple bits and it’s a lot more colorful than shown here.
Winkie is part of the Wartime Farm Yarn Collection!
Republica Unicornia's Pure BFL base is 100% Superwash British Bluefaced Leicester wool, 438 yards/100 grams, 4-ply.
Bluefaced Leicester (BFL) is a British sheep breed that produces the most glorious wool: it's soft but a little sheepier than merino, which means it is less prone to pilling. It has a beautiful luster, takes dye wonderfully, and has good stitch definition. (I love it so much.)
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Everything you see here is made with love and some swearing in fabulous Atlanta, Georgia. Yarn is ethically-sourced (museling-free) and dyed with professional, colorfast, lightfast acid dyes.
Due to the nature of hand-dyed yarn, I recommend that you alternate skeins in larger projects. There are often variations even within the same dyelot, so if you need a larger quantity than is available here (say, for a sweater), we've got the solution for that!
Some color bleeding is normal during the first couple of washes. I wash the bejebus out of my skeins, but some colors are just bleeders.
Your handmade items are magical delicate flowers and should be treated as such. Handwash in cool water with a delicate detergent (I recommend Sock Soap from Tuft Woolens) and lay flat to dry. Machine wash at your own risk (I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your project during machine washing. Those things are violent.)
Yarn is dyed in a pet-free studio.
I do my best to make sure items are true to color in the photos, but monitors/eyeballs/etc. differ. Blues and greens are especially hard to capture (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, ELECTRIC MRS. PEACOCK.)
If you have a problem with or a question about your purchase, please contact me directly. I'm a reasonable human being.
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