Cormo 1.0 Spirit Trail Sapphire

You may know Jennifer Heverly from her yarns under the Spirit Trail Fiberworks label? Well, right from the start I knew I wanted her to work with Cormo 1.0. I was curious to see how her dye process - which involves pressing dye onto the yarn, rather than just submerging it in a vat and giving it a swirl - would impact the free-spirited crimp in our Cormo.  Compare this to the undyed skeins and you'll notice a distinct wobble in the plies, where the pressure brought out more fiber movement. I consider it a discreet enhanced surface texture. The Cormo has absorbed the dye beautifully, with a rich, full saturation. In Sapphire you have a robust coloring that shifts gently from a more understandable navy to a deeper, darker, more mystic inky blue I find completely irresistible. This wants to be a sweater.  A Note about Color: These are hand-dyed in the true sense of the word. Color is massaged into each skein by hand, and the hues can shift during steaming. Which is to say, there can be so