SKEIN Yarn Skeinyarn.com Superwash Merino Fingering Yarn, Namaste

SKEIN is an Australian indie dyer hand-painting yarn out of a Sydney studio since 2010, and Uptown Sock in *Namaste* is the jewel-tone rainbow side of her work — purples and blues chasing greens and golds along a single-ply 100% superwash merino base. New with the signature SKEIN hand-painted heart tag and printed band, original twist.

This listing is for 1 skein of SKEIN Yarn (Australia) Uptown Sock in color Namaste.

About the yarn:

Uptown Sock is SKEIN's single-ply 100% superwash merino sock base — 400 yards in a 100 g skein, spun fine enough for a fingering sock and round enough that the colourway reads in the knit fabric. Single-ply construction is what makes the hand-painted multis read the way they do: there's no second strand to break up the pooling, so *Namaste* knits up as long unbroken washes of jewel-tone purples into blues into greens into golds before the cycle starts again. Best worked at 7–8 sts/inch on a US 1–3 (2.25–3.25 mm); the gauge is forgiving, but a slightly tighter sock gives you the colour shifts at full saturation. SKEIN bases are superwash; machine wool cycle delicate, lay flat to dry.

• Fingering weight
• Composition: 100% superwash merino
• Weight: 100 g
• Yardage: 400 yds
• Needle: 2.25–3.25 mm
• Construction: single-ply superwash merino
• Care: Machine wash gentle (wool cycle), lay flat to dry

About SKEIN Yarn (Australia) Uptown Sock:

SKEIN Yarn is an Australian indie hand-dyer running out of Sydney since 2010 — skeinyarn.com is still her shop and Top Draw Socks, Uptown Sock, MC Lush, and the Slinky MCN base are all still in rotation in 2026. The studio is known for two things: the signature hand-painted heart tag that rides on every skein (each one inked by hand, no two exactly alike), and a deep bench of jewel-tone and garden-tone hand-painted colourways that read as bright but never garish.

Uptown Sock is the single-ply base in the catalogue — the one SKEIN reaches for when she wants the colour pooling to do the heavy lifting rather than be broken up by ply twist. Hand-painted in small kettle batches; each skein is its own pour.