Blue Heron Yarns
Blue Heron Yarns Sock Plus — Walnut 4 oz / 420 yd, Fingering, Direct from the Dyer
Stock
On the shelf
2 skeins of Walnut — walnut shell, oak gold, river silt, with a dark purple shadow. When it's gone, it's gone.
A painterly skein of Blue Heron Yarns Sock Plus in Walnut — the Eastern Shore studio’s warm earth colourway, brushed across walnut shell, oak gold, river silt, and a single dark purple shadow that only shows up when the skein moves under the light. On the needle it reads as a sophisticated brown rather than a flat one — the kind of skein that looks ordinary in the hank and quietly extraordinary in finished fabric.
This listing is for one full skein. We have two skeins of Walnut in stock; buy one or both. Each skein is 4 oz/420 yards per the printed Blue Heron band — when these two are gone, that’s the end of Walnut Sock Plus.
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
- Colourway: Walnut — walnut shell, oak gold, river silt, with a dark purple shadow tone
- Skeins available: 2
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: Walnut — walnut shell, oak gold, river silt, with a dark purple shadow · Yarn weight: Fingering · Thickness: Fingering · Fiber: 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon (hand-painted) · Skein weight: 100 g
What it is
- Fiber
- 80% Wool · 20% Blend
- Weight
- fingering
- Yardage
- 3.5 oz
- Needle
- 2.25–3.25 mm
- Dye method
- hand-dyed
Who made it
Blue Heron Yarns
How to keep it
- · Hand-wash cold, no agitation
- · Lay flat to dry
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