Mountain Haze
Jonathan and Denise >
A couple of months ago, when summer still lingered on by day, whilst Autumn advanced at night by degrees of cold and wet, we found ourselves in one of our oft-recurring conversations concerning the ever-changing colours of land and loch, sea and sky. We were on a long drive down north*, and as the main road through Uist follows a line between the homely crofting townships on the Atlantic side, and the majestic sweep of hill and glen on the other, without being inconvenienced by either (or, indeed, much in the way of road traffic) there’s always time and distance enough to observe, to reflect, and to talk.
* Here in the Outer Hebrides, South is Up and North is Down!
As so often happens on our long drives, the conversation was sporadic, each of us taking in something from the passing scene, digesting and analysing it, then offering up some observation or a proposal. On this journey, the to-and-fro of conversation concerned the colours – somehow both dreary and glorious – emanating from the higher slopes of the eastern hills, where eagles have their eeries and the red deer graze in peace. There’s the almost-indigo of field scabious ; There’s the pinks and purples of heather, both the bell and the ling ; the jade green of moss, in patches on the near-starved soils of the high and north-facing slopes ; the burnt orange of the carnivorous sundew, and the tall grasses and reeds, yellow gold in the low autumnal light. A haze of colour, bleeding from the mountainsides, smudged in the drifting mist and attenuated by the distance. And were we to put a name to this still-damp canvas … ?
Welcome to our new, limited-edition Uist Landscapes hand-spun merino wool yarn : Mountain Haze
To purchase, visit the Hebridean Woolshed. You can buy skeins of Mountain Haze yarn for your own projects, or if you want the Shetland Lace Scarf shown in progress here, you can buy it as a kit with yarn and pattern, or complete – hand-knitted by Denise.
For delivery by Christmas be sure to order by :
- 7 December – Australia and New Zealand
- 12 December – European Union, USA, Canada
- 19 December – United Kingdom
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What beautiful yarn – and I love the whole concept behind the namng of it.
I loved traveling that road with you. So much more peaceful and beautiful then the one I travel. Your wool makes me wish I could knit or still crochet. It’s just stunning!
Your post is almost poetic in its descriptions of your gorgeous landscape! The yarn is spectacular!
That is just stunning. You have me thinking about getting the needles out again. Just in time for winter!
Utterly beautiful!
The rolags are gorgeous!
J > It’s infuriatingly difficult photographing wool in its various forms!
Beautiful color combination and yarn! I can understand your love of the land and sky by your wonderful poetic description. You express it very well! I have been looking forward to having your posts brighten my dreary cold days eventually, so it was a lovely surprising bright spot in my day today.
Thank you, Denise and Jonathan! 🙂
J & D > It’s encouraging for us to have your appreciation, Sheila. Our blog-rate is somewhat reduced at present, due to reasons that will become apparent in a few weeks!
You’ve had a new grand baby to visit of course! But I always look forward to seeing all your posts.
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