Are you hesitating between several plant-based colours or do you like working with natural shades?
The Pyrenean Palette Skein allows you to discover several shades in a single product.
 
This palette brings together 5 mini skeins of 20 g, each dyed with a different plant, simply held together to form a 100 g skein. Once the skein is unravelled, you have 5 separate mini skeins, ready to be wound into balls and used for your knitting or crochet project.


It's the ideal solution for testing the unique texture of my local Pyrenean wool and discovering the beautiful natural colours I offer, derived from plants.
 
Why choose this format?
 
 
 To discover several shades before ordering larger skeins.
 
 
 To inspire your next creative jacquard projects.
 
 
 To give a lovely gift to lovers of knitting and natural dyes.
 
 
 To support a local, ethical and sustainable wool industry.

 
 
This palette is available on my Sport base (2-ply), a local two-ply wool that is lightweight, sturdy and suitable for intermediate needles (3–3.5 mm).
 
Bases included:
Azun and Peira Sport
Sportweight yarn, needles 3–3.5 mm
 
Colourways:
 
 
Colourway 1: Quebracho pink (Azun), Campêche blue (Peira), Acacia pink (Peira), Rhubarb yellow (Azun), Oak beige (Azun)
 
 
Colourway 2: Quebracho pink (Peira), Oak beige (Azun), Old rose St Marthe (Peira), Campêche blue (Peira), Natural mottled grey (Peira)
 
 
Palette 3: Bordeaux St Marthe (Peira), Old rose St Marthe (Peira), Acacia pink (Peira), Quebracho pink (Peira), Acacia pink (Azun)
 
 
Palette 4: Rhubarb yellow (Azun), Acacia pink (Peira), Bordeaux St Marthe (Peira), Natural mottled grey (Peira), Acacia pink (Azun)
 
 
‘My palette’ option: see the additional information section to choose your colours



Wool:
Wool from Lourdaises and Tarasconnaises sheep
 
Composition
100% natural wool, approx. 275-290 m / 100 g 
Uncarbonised / unbleached / non-superwash
 
Quality
2 plied yarns
100g (5 mini skeins of 20g)
 
Gauge after blocking (stockinette stitch), over 10cm
23 stitches with 3mm needles
20-22 stitches with 3.5mm needles
 
Origin and processing
French production with traceability certified by LAINAMAC (yarns listed in the Lanathèque):
- Collected and sorted by hand in Val d'Azun in the Hautes-Pyrénées, by myself
- Washed, carded and spun at the artisanal spinning mill in Niaux, Ariège
- Dyed at the Myrobolan Teintures Végétales workshop in Felletin, in the Creuse region
 
The colours are obtained from plant extracts, using a bio-mordant. The Azun and Peira bases are composed of several colours (to be selected from the options).
 
Care 
The wool is not superwash treated. We recommend hand washing in cold water with a mild eco-friendly detergent (or homemade detergent made with Marseille soap) and then drying flat. If you want to try your machine's wool programme, test it first on a sample to avoid disappointment. For more advice on caring for your natural wool knitwear, visit my blog.
 
NB: Despite every effort to ensure that the photos accurately reflect the colour, it may vary depending on your screen.
 
Need inspiration? Discover beautiful patterns that you can knit with this yarn on my blog.