Bloom & Briar Split Shade Blossom
Bloom & Briar, a fun Blossom yarn club created by Wonderland Yarns inspired by William Morris artworks! Wonderland Yarns chose some of his floral artworks and patterns and have created special gradient cakes.
This month's yarn is a split shade Blossom cake in color Lisianthus.
What to Know
>Featured pattern At The Gate Cowl, designed by Stephanie Shiman, is available for purchase on Ravelry here
>The pattern uses both ends of one Blossom to create the color work
>This month's Blossom is a purple gradient with dark blue. Project in photo shown in dark charcoal and blue.
What You Receive Each Month:
1 gradient cake of Blossoms yarn
Link for 1-cake project idea
Custom stitch marker
A work-in-progress card featuring artwork by William Morris
About the yarn:
Blossoms are center-pull cakes of joy! Hand-dyed in floral-inspired gradients they are one continuous color-changing knit! Blossoms are 80% superwash merino/20% nylon; 425 yards fingering.
About William Morris
More than any other British designer of the decorative arts, William Morris brought the natural world indoors through the many wallpapers and textiles he produced during his lifetime. He drew on countryside and hedgerow plants to populate his patterns and he looked to old-fashioned flowers from the garden to inform his designs. He helped transform interior decoration in late Victorian Britain and made a lasting impact on garden design well into the 20th century.
Despite the fickleness of fashion, Morris’s celebration of nature and his skill at rendering it in pattern continue to resonate. Morris & Co. still produce his designs for 21st-century homeowners, almost 160 years after he founded the original company.
Lisianthus is a rose-like flower native to the southern US, Mexico, the Caribbean and northern South America. In Texas they are known as Bluebells.