Say hello to our November 2026 Secret Stash Club colourway, Freeze Ray! Filled with flashing colours and chaos, this colourway is meant to be high volume and high contrast. Every inch of it invites you to pause and take it all in. Hand-dyed on a new-to-us yarn base, Firecracker Sock, cast on this wool blend with a sprinkling of shiny, multi-coloured stellina.
COLOUR WORTH PAUSING FOR
Recently, I was remembering a video I took of my kids when they were little… I think my daughter was not even a year old. I was flipping through my photos on my phone and devastated to find that the video, along with a year’s worth of baby videos, was missing off my phone. I checked my computer hard drives, checked the cloud storage… and it seems that all the photos from that year are missing.
In hunting for those missing photos, I stumbled on so many snapshots of moments that I wish I could hold onto. I frequently wish I could just stop time for a minute, so I could take a breath and remember it all.
This high-contrast colourway is meant to be all flashing colours and chaos. Every inch of it invites you to pause and take it in. Is it turquoise? Is it red sparkles or blue sparkles? Gold or purple? There’s so much to see, process, absorb, but also so much to enjoy. If I were a superhero, my power would be to stop time with my freeze ray.
Firecracker Sock is a completely new base yarn for us at the studio and gave us an opportunity to explore colour — especially since there was already colour IN the yarn base. This fingering-weight wool blend yarn features a light sprinkling of shiny, metallic stellina in red, silver, gold, and blue.
PROJECT IDEAS
Whenever we have a splashy hand-dyed colourway like this, we encourage more colour mixing and blending to prevent random pooling effects. You can see in the finished skeins that every skein looks different and the colour cycling will be irregular. So we add to the irregular appearance by doing things like winding the skein into a centre-pull ball and alternating between the inside and outside strands. Or, perhaps holding the two strands together and knitting/crocheting this yarn as a worsted-weight substitute.
If you want some splashy contrast, try combining it with a second skein of semi-solid yarn in a turquoise or plum colour. Or let the yarn shine in a fun one-skein project. There are plenty of ways of playing with a colourful skein like this. We have more ideas in our Knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarn course on the School of SweetGeorgia.
If you want to weave with this skein, it would make for a fabulous warp. Use a thin, solid weft to highlight the colour changes of this hand-dyed skein.
JOIN THE CLUB
One of the fundamental beliefs we have at SweetGeorgia is that the colours we surround ourselves with can transform our experience of life. Whether you knit, crochet, weave, or something else, join us at our SweetGeorgia + Co community. We’d love to hear your thoughts on our Freeze Ray colourway and see what you make with it.
Thank you for following along with us for our colourful Secret Stash Club adventure. We’ll see you next month!
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