SmayWorks Design — "Pretty Pink" Handspun Mixed-Media Art Yarn — 16 yards

A one-of-one handspun mixed-media art yarn from Cathy Smay of SmayWorks Design (Indiana, USA). The skein is built around a creamy blush pink palette and worked the way Cathy works — wool and silk plied with sari-silk ribbons, mohair locks, sequins, beads, and vintage buttons, finished with a glint of metallic thread. The hand-written hangtag is still attached and reads "Pretty Pink — Hand-dyed Handspun Art Yarn — 16 yds — $38".

About the spinner. SmayWorks Design is a small fibre-arts studio working in handspun yarn, mixed media, and "functional art." The yarns are spun-to-order in small batches and sold on Etsy; the hangtag carries Cathy's personal email and phone. When this skein is gone there is no second behind it.

Fibre & embellishments (off the spinner's own tag).

• Base: wool, merino/silk blend, merino/silk/flax blend, mulberry silk, silk laps, bamboo, angelina, firestar fibres
• Plied in: sari silk ribbons, mohair locks
• Spun in: sequins, beads, and vintage buttons
• Threaded with: metallic threads

Specs.

• Yardage: 16 yards per skein (per spinner's tag)
• Skein weight: 3.4 oz / ~96 g
• Weight class: super bulky, thick-and-thin
• Colourway: blush pink with copper sequins, pale pearls, and a rose-quartz-coloured bead
• Skeins available: 1 — one-of-one
• Care: hand-wash cool, lay flat to dry; treat the beads and sequins gently in storage

Lovely for: the statement panel in a colour-block cowl or scarf, the trim row on a hat brim, a single-skein weaving accent, or worked into a textile collage where the embellishments get to read. 16 super-bulky yards is enough to carry a feature row without committing the project to it.

Condition. Excellent. Skein is clean, hand-tied, and intact, with both the hand-written colour tag and the SmayWorks Design business-card tag still attached (visible in the close-ups). Stored in the cabinet between intake and listing.

Curator's Cabinet — handspun, mixed-media, one-of-one. The kind of skein that gets used as the visual anchor of a project and never replicated.