I’m so very happy to bring you this collection that combines a beautiful, silky soft lace-weight yarn base with the wonderful heroines from Jane Austen’s inimitable novels.

I made eight different character colorways based on the personalities of the complex female characters in Austen’s novels, and each colorway can be used with every other colorway to make whatever amazing lace project you can think of. I dyed each yarn in multiple layers, which creates a rather amazing glow and richness that can only be achieved by layering dyes. This is a time-consuming process but so very worth it for the result.

I chose a slightly heavier lace-weight yarn for this because I personally find it less fiddly than super fine lace. The yarn is made of soft merino, silk, and sparkly stellina. The sparkle is definitely there but fairly subtle. This is not a superwash yarn, but honestly, any open lacework project would need to be washed by hand anyway, right?

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