Skein Yarns — Hand-Dyed Silky BFL Lace Skeins

Skein Yarns (skeinyarns.etsy.com) is a small US hand-dye studio working in long lace yardage — the kind of skein you wind once and live with for months. This listing is for three of their skeins from a single destash, mixed across two of their signature lace bases. Pick the colorway you want with the variant selector; each variant is a single skein.

Whitewash — Silky BFL Lace (875 yd / 100 g, 80% Bluefaced Leicester / 20% silk). Cream and pale peach with a silvery undertone — the BFL gives it a fine sheen and the silk pulls the hues toward porcelain instead of pure white. Beautiful on the needles under indoor light.

Grey/Purple — Silky BFL Lace (875 yd / 100 g, 80% BFL / 20% silk, base assumed from family match — the band was not retained, so the seller's inventory note is our source for the colorway name). A deep plum / aubergine that breaks toward charcoal and lilac in the skein. The same silky lace base as Whitewash; pair the two if you're planning a two-tone shawl.

Specs at a glance.

• Silky BFL Lace (Whitewash, Grey/Purple): 100 g / 875 yd / 800 m, 80% Bluefaced Leicester / 20% silk, hand-dyed, hand-wash only.
• Weight class: lace (2-ply).
• Suggested needles: US 1–4 (2.25–3.5 mm) for shawls held single; US 5–7 (3.75–4.5 mm) held double for a finer fingering.

Lovely for: a long single-skein shawl (each base gives you 800+ yards in a 100 g skein, which is generous for almost any shawl pattern), a delicate stole, a featherweight wrap held double, or a heritage-stitch scarf where the long colour runs of Sunlight will print clearly.

About Skein Yarns. Active US-based indie dyer on Etsy. The bands carry the studio URL plus the base and yardage; the colourways on these three are handwritten directly on the band.

Condition. New / unused. Sunlight and Whitewash retain their original Skein Yarns bands; the Grey/Purple skein has no band but is a clear visual and tactile match for the Silky BFL Lace base.

Destash, twice-owned. Original retail roughly $28–34 per Merino Lace skein and $32–38 per Silky BFL Lace skein.

Quick reference: Fiber: merino / silk blend · Skein weight: 100 g