55% BFL 45% Silk

800 meters per 100 gram skein

This is a delicious base mixing the best of BFL and Silk. BFL (Bluefaced Leicester) is a bred of sheep with gorgeous shiny long staple wool that still is softer then most long-wool sheep. Blended with silk it gives a fantastic lace weight yarn that would be perfect for a shawl or a lightweight summer cardigan.

Balder was the most beautiful of all the gods. He was one of Odin's sons with his wife Frigg. Balder started having nightmares that he was going to die. Odin summoned a dead volve, or sorceress, and she confirmed that Hel was preparing to welcome Balder to the realm of the dead. To try to avoid fate, Frigg went around to all things, making them swear an oath not to harm Balder, but she left out the mistletoe because it seemed too young to understand the meaning of an oath. And when it seemed that Balder could not be harmed by any weapon, the gods had an excellent new form of entertainment: Throwing any weapon they had at him.  But the trickster Loki, who always  seem to be at the bottom of every plot in Norse mythology, found out about the mistletoe and made himself an arrow out of it. Then he tricked Hod, the blind brother of Balder, into shooting the arrow at Balder. So Balder died and great sorrow came to the gods. After Ragnarok, the world’s ending, Balder is one of the gods that come back from the dead and start a new and brighter world.

This is a pale spring green, inspired by the colour of the plant mistletoe and other small woodland plants and new life in springtime.