Colourway Spotlight – Daymer Storm.

I am so lucky to live here in North Cornwall in the far south west of England. The landscape and seascape on and around this peninsula is endlessly inspiring. This colourway is inspired by the beautiful Daymer Bay on the north coast of Cornwall where the river Camel completes its journey to the sea.

I spent a lot of time here when my twins were very young with a wonderful, supportive group of like-minded parents so I have many happy memories embedded in the sand and rippling wavelets.

Using a blend of fine, 21 micron merino wool, sourced from non-mulesed flocks, Daymer Storm is a blend of blues with hints of duck egg and teal along with a lilacy pink. I find the bay waters to be much calmer and less foamy than those just around the corner at Polzeath, so there is no silk in this blend.

The Yarns

As with all my repeatable colourways, Daymer Storm is available as two different yarns, the first being a thick and thin yarn plied with blue metallic thread with lots of tiny greenish, blueish and purpleish glass beads. Each skein of beaded yarn begins life as 50g of fibre, and about 60cm of tiny beads threaded onto blue metallic thread. Daymer Storm beaded yarn is available here.

For the second style of yarn, using either 50g or 200g of my fibre blend, I take a commercially spun yarn, usually a boucle, and spin the fibre so it wraps around the core yarn. I then ply it with a metallic thread to create texture and little glints of sparkle. The skein length varies a little bit because I am not a machine and that is part of the point of handspun yarn. Daymer Storm Corespun yarn is available here.

For those who don’t have the time, inclination or skills to work with the yarn, Daymer Storm is available as a ready-made cowl. Perfect to wrap yourself in on chilly days when you don’t want bulky scarf ends tucked into your coat or jumper.

The 50g skeins are spun on my beautiful Ashford Traditional spinning wheel and the 200g skeins and cowls are spun on my Ashford Country Spinner 2. Keep an eye out for blog posts about equipment where I will talk about the wheels, their stories and what I like to use them for.