Blue Heron Yarns Sock Plus — Iris & Blue Violet 4 oz / 420 yd, Fingering, Direct from the Dyer

Two saturated purples from Blue Heron Yarns Sock Plus that read as siblings rather than a contrast pair — Iris, the deep blue-violet with the slightest petal-pink shimmer when it catches the light; and Blue Violet, the cooler, more ultramarine cousin from the same dye family. Either one is a knockout solo; together they make a colour-block project sing.

Pick your colourway above. This is a single product with two variants; each variant is one skein — one Iris, one Blue Violet. Each skein is 4 oz / 420 yards per the printed Blue Heron band. When that variant sells, it’s gone — these came direct from the dyer at studio close.

About the yarn

• Maker: Blue Heron Yarns (Easton, Maryland)
• Line: Sock Plus (the studio’s workhorse sock base)
• Fibre: 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon — hand-painted
• Weight class: fingering / sock (~120 yd/oz)
• Per skein: 4 oz / 420 yd
• Recommended needles: US 1–4 / 2.25–3.5 mm (gauge 28 sts / 4 in)
• One-skein use: an adult pair of socks; doubles up beautifully for shawls on a US 5–6
• Care: hand-wash with a neutral soap (per band); machine-gentle / lay flat to dry tolerated
• Condition: new with band, direct from the dyer in the studio wind-down
• Colourways: Iris — deep blue-violet with petal-pink shimmer; Blue Violet — cool ultramarine purple
• Skeins available: 1 of each variant 

About Blue Heron Yarns. Blue Heron Yarns was founded on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1995 by Demian Savits and his mother Barbara Stone — three decades of small-batch, hand-painted yarn for knitters, crocheters, and weavers. The studio worked out of Easton, Maryland, and built a quiet cult following on the painterly, multi-tonal colourways that pool and blend like watercolour rather than fight you on the needle. Blue Heron has now closed. These skeins came direct from the dyer as the studio wound down — not destash, not a secondary market — the last of their Sock Plus base, full stop.

Quick reference: Color: Iris (deep blue-violet) and Blue Violet (cool ultramarine purple) · Yarn weight: Fingering · Thickness: Fingering · Fiber: 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon (hand-painted) · Skein weight: 100 g