New York is abuzz as Fashion
Week rolls into town! These runway shows symbolize the beginning of the
spring!
The Spring 2013 colors and
styles are already well defined and are just now beginning to hit retail stores
across the country. We thought perhaps a report on the fashion colors for
Spring 2013 would help you – whether you are buying new clothes for yourself,
products for a farm store or dyeing yarns and spring accessory items like we
are.
It’s a good year to use those
natural alpaca colors – particularly the beiges and light fawns, as well as
silvers. You know, of course, that you can “create” your own silver by adding
10% black fibers to 90% white fibers. It is a perfect way to use what the
alpaca industry has called “contaminated” grey or black fibers. Here at
WoodsEdge we have been “creating” grey yarns since the late 70’s in sheep’s
wool, as there were few light silver grey fleeces!
I particularly like to add my
own signature to the beige or light fawn products by over dyeing with a pale
pink Linen
or soft Nectarine.
I feel these over-dyed colors are more feminine, more saleable, and look better
on more skin tones.
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Handspun handknit shawl made from medium silver grey alpaca overdyed with a hint of blue.
Vintage WoodsEdge circa 1990's. |
It is also definitely the
season to over dye light silver grey. We are excited to have four new grey
alpaca yarns to add to our repertoire this spring and look forward to over
dyeing the pale silver grey as well as the variegated silver grey and soft
brown tweed as soon as this arctic air mass dissipates. This is the perfect
natural color to over dye to achieve the dusky blues, Grayed Jades and muted lavenders
such as African
Violet. In fact, many of the blues shown this season could be over
dyed on pale silver. With blues being one of the easiest colors to wear by many
different skin tones, it is sure to be the color you will want to stock up on
if you are in retail.
The new bright colors on the
scene are Emerald
and Tender
Shoots (aka chartreuse), which look fabulous with Monaco Blue
or Dusk Blue.
Poppy Red
paired with white, navy or black continues to be a quintessential All American
favorite.
