From wool, comes yarn. From sheep, comes wool. From farms, come sheep. And it’s the farmers who keep it all running. Spencer Hill Naturally Dyed yarn is embarking on an effort to bring the yarn from those sheep, those farms, those farmers directly to you.

Liverpool Yarns, who brings us this amazing fingering-weight Shetland, is run by Erika Flory and Colleen Puckett. They put real backbone behind “shopping local” and “shopping small” in how they source their fiber and have it processed into a wide range of yarn in an eye-pleasing range of natural colors. You can also find Erika’s classic, sophisticated designs here on Ravelry.

I have used my palette of natural dyes on the natural “Gossamer” base here (this natural color is available here, too), but if you visit their website, you’ll find fingering, worsted, and chunky weights on several natural colors. And what better name for a fingering-weight base than “Charlotte,” the well-spoken spider from E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web”?