Claire pours on purple dye stock onto yarn in a dye pan
Selection of hand-dyed pretty pastel pink yarn twisted into skeins

Hand dyed yarns

Sharing a love of all things crafty through hand dyed yarn for knitting and crochet

based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

SORRY NO SHIPPING - Fri 28th Aug - Sun 6th Sept

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Mermaid Hand Dyed Yarn Pre Order
from £22.00

***This is a pre order for full sized skeins of the colourway Mermaid***

You can choose which base you’d like this colourway on.

Orders will ship out around w/c 21st Sept.

Please note, colours may vary slightly from the photographs and depending upon your chosen base.

The bases:

  1. Mohair Silk Lace - 50 grams 420 metres 72% Kid Mohair / 28% Silk

  2. Suri Silk Lace - 50g 400m 74% Baby Suri Alpaca 26% Silk

  3. Merino Silk Lace - 100g 600m 70% Superwash Merino 30% Silk Single Ply

  4. Platinum Fingering - 100 grams 425 metres 75% Superwash Merino / 25% Nylon

  5. Merino Silk Fingering - 100 grams 400 metres 70% Superwash Merino / 30% Silk Single Ply

  6. Merino Cashmere Silk Fingering 100 grams 400m 70% Superwash Merino / 20% Silk / 10% Cashmere

  7. Alpaca Cashmere Silk Fingering - 100 grams 400m 70% Suri Alpaca / 20% Silk / 10% Cashmere - non superwash - Will appear paler than a superwash base with smudgier speckles

  8. Silk Baby Suri Fluff Fingering - Wiggle - 69% Silk / 21% Baby Suri Alpaca / 10% Polyamide 350m per 100g

  9. Platinum Double Knit - 100 grams 225 metres 75% Superwash Merino / 25% Nylon

  10. Falkland Double Knit - 100 grams 225 metres 100% Falkland Wool

  11. Sport - 100 grams 300m 100% Superwash Merino

  12. Aran - 100 grams 166 metres 100 % Superwash Merino

  13. Chunky - 100 grams 100 metres 100% Superwash Merino

  14. Sparkle Fingering - 100 grams 400 metres 70% Superwash Merino / 25% Nylon / 5% Silver Stellina

    All the yarn will been hand dyed by myself, Claire Bentley at Cookston Crafts in Aberdeenshire. It will be packaged in a box similar to the one pictured.

    This yarn will be dyed to give a variegated effect using various colours of professional acid dye.

    Yarn is washed, rinsed and line dried.

    The yarn has been rinsed until the water runs clear, however some bleeding MAY occur and handwashing in a lukewarm solution with wool detergent would be recommended. Do not soak or wring. Do not tumble dry.

    Made in a smoke free home with love and care

Wildflower Tee Kits
from £66.00

This kit will include all of the yarn required to knit the Wildflower Tee by Elenor Mortensen.

Pattern sold separately on Ravelry)

The kits are in stock and ready to ship immediately so you can cast on asap!

The bases:

Platinum - 75% Superwash Merino / 25% Nylon - 425m per 100g plied yarn

Merino - 100% Superwash Merino 400m per 100g

Alpaca Silk Cashmere - 70% Baby Alpaca / 20% Silk / 10% Cashmere

The colour options:

  1. Platinum - Pearl MC & Green OOAK CC

  2. Platinum - Aeonium MC & Deep Raspberry CC

  3. Platinum - Moon Cactus MC & Ostara CC

  4. Platinum - Ink Blot MC & 100% Merino Monet CC

  5. Alpaca Silk Cashmere - Jade MC & Echeveria CC

  6. Platinum - Garnet MC & German Empress CC

  7. Alpaca Silk Cashmere - Electric Blue MC & Lossie CC

  8. Platinum - Crema MC & Armeria CC

  9. Platinum - Armeria MC & Crema CC

  10. Platinum - Empress MC & Lilac CC

  11. Merino - Marin MC & Winter Sunsets CC

The kits are priced by size required -

Sizes 1 - 4 contain 2 x main colour MC and 1 x contrast colour CC (36.6 - to 44.5” finished bust measurement)

Sizes 5 - 9 contain 3 x main colour MC and 1 x contrast colour CC (49.6 - 63” finished bust measurement)

The pattern is designed to have 4-6” positive ease so for example if you are a 40” bust size you should opt for size 4 44.5”

Just email me to discuss if you’d like to mix up the colour choices, I’m happy to help. We can set up a zoom meeting or facetime so you can browse the yarn remotely to put your own kit together.

Honeysuckle - 'Wiggle' Silk Suri Fingering Weight Yarn
£30.00

Honeysuckle is a vibrant pink variegated colourway - Silk Suri & Polyamide.

It has has been hand dyed by myself, Claire Bentley at Cookston Crafts in Aberdeenshire. This yarn has been dyed to give a variegated effect using various colours of professional acid dye.

100 grams

Non Superwash

350 metres

69% Silk

21 % Suri Alpaca

10% Polyamide

These have been washed and line dried. Although I have tried to photograph this yarn in plenty natural light, the actual colour may vary slightly to the way the image is presented on your screen. The yarn has been rinsed until the water runs clear, however some bleeding MAY occur and handwashing in a lukewarm solution with wool detergent would be recommended. Do not soak or wring. Do not tumble dry. Made in a smoke free home with love and care x

Only 2 left in stock
Westknits Deco Dream Shawl Kit
from £110.00

This kit will include all of the yarn required to knit the Deco Dream Shawl by Stephen West of Westknits.

Pattern sold separately on Ravelry

The kits are all in stock and ready to ship. If they sell out, please pop your email address in the box to be notified when I restock them.

All of the yarn is Merino Nylon 425m per 100g with the exception of kits 3 & 4 which are Alpaca Cashmere Silk 400m per 100g

Each Kit will contain 4 × 100g fingering weight yarn and 1 × 50g laceweight yarn in either suri alpcaca silk or mohair silk

Just email me to discuss if you’d like to mix up the colour choices. I’d be happy to set up a facetime meeting so you can browse the yarn remotely to put your own kit together.

Shop by Yarn Weight

double knit hand dyed yarns in bright colours
chunky hand dyed yarn and a knitted sample
a pink skein of aran weight hand dyed yarn sits on top of an open skein of yarn
4 skeins of fingering weight skeins of yarn

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The external view of the stone workshop building with pansies in the foreground
the workshop steading with a sewing machine and crochet blanket
hand dyed yarn and a crochet granny square along side the words cookston crafts
claire winds a skein of yarn into a cake while wearing a pretty knitted sweater