Gift Basket (Mug and Yarn)

Looking for a quick gift for the yarn lover in your life? We've got you! Two skeins of yarn in coordinating colors (both yarns will be the same base) and a yarn-themed mug. Trust us, you can't go wrong with this! They will love it! 

HaldeCraft HandDyed yarns started life in 2007 in a small yarn store in Gainesville, Florida (Hanks Yarn and Fiber) and was then called "Perhaps Today is a Good Day to Dye". It has continued online as HaldeCraft HandDyed since 2011, and is hand-dyed and lovingly re-skeined in a small home studio by someone who loves the fiber arts just as much as you do. If you are looking for photos of yarn colorways or finished objects and are on Ravelry, you can find my yarn in their database; just look for "HaldeCraft HandDyed".

All of my yarns are hand-dyed singly or in batches of two. As with all hand-dyes (not just my own) I recommend working from alternating balls on larger projects as even yarns dyed at the same time may not be perfectly matched.

This yarn was dyed in a smoke-free, but not pet-free studio; however, once dyed it is kept sealed in bags inside bins which studio dogs do not have access to.

Available in the following base yarns -

Base: Andre
Content: 80% Superwash Merino/20% Nylon
Yardage: 400 yards/100g
Weight: Sock
Gauge: 6-8 stitches/inch on a US 0-2

Base: Jemisin
Content: 84% Superwash Merino/16% Gold Stellina
Yardage: 200 yards/115g
Weight: Worsted
Gauge: 4-5 stitches/inch on a US 6-9

Base: Joy
Content: 100% Superwash Merino
Yardage: 328 yards/100g
Weight: Sport
Gauge: 5-6 stitches/inch on a US 3-5

Base: Lynn
Content: 100% Superwash Merino
Yardage: 231 yards/100g
Weight: DK
Gauge: 5-6 stitches/inch on a US 5-7

Base: Nagata
Content: 80% Superwash Merino/20% Multicolor Viscose Neps
Yardage: 425 yards/115g
Weight: Sock
Gauge: 6-8 stitches/inch on a US 0-2

Base: Tepper
Content: 100% Superwash Merino
Yardage: 218 yards/100g
Weight: Worsted
Gauge: 4.5-5 stitches/inch on a US 7-9

Base: Tiptree
Content: 100% Superwash Merino
Yardage: 400 yards/100g
Weight: Sock
Gauge: 6-8 stitches/inch on a US 0-2

Base: Yolen
Content: 70% Superwash Merino/20%/Cashmere/10% Nylon
Yardage: 407 yards/115g
Weight: Sock
Gauge: 6-8 stitches/inch on a US 0-2

Mugs will vary in size, shape, and color - but have no fear, pictures will be switched out as things sell and are replaced. Clicking on the base yarn name (below price, above "add to cart," to the right of the picture) will switch to a picture of the current offering.

Approximate Height: 3.5-4 inches
Approximate Width: 3 inches at lip of mug
Approximate Weight: 12-16 ounces
Will hold approximately: 10-16 ounces

These mugs were glazed with non-toxic food-safe glazes, and are dishwasher safe. And while I have been known to put my own ceramics in the microwave, I don't officially recommend it -- the rapid change in temperature can cause the glaze to cool more quickly than the ceramic, which retains heat, and so shrinks at a slower rate. This can occasionally call what is called "crazing" (oddly enough this is both a defect, when the piece is functional, and a desired effect, when the piece is decorative, like a vase). Crazing is when the glaze cools faster than the ceramic piece, making small cracks in the glaze. This can happen immediately or even years later, and personally I've seen it happen on many of the commercial mugs I own that I put in the microwave often.  

HaldeCraft ceramics begin life as slip-cast, hand-built, or wheel-thrown pieces and then are painted and glazed and put out into the world, all by the hands of one person. I learned ceramics like an old-school apprentice, at the feet of my grandmother who had a studio in the 1950s and 1960s, and many of the pieces I make incorporate now-vintage molds that she bought then. My pieces are unique, hand painted, and proudly made in my own home studio with confidence, mindfulness, and joy.