Up into the Cherry Tree

Hand Dyed Yarn Inspiration:

Up into the Cherry Tree is part of the 'Poetry Collection' of yarns. This skein was inspired by the poem "Foreign Lands" by Robert Louise Stevenson. During our gentle, homeschooling days, we would often take a quilt outside in the summer, sit in the shade of a tree and read poetry together. "Foreign Lands" was one of our favourite poems becuase it captured the dreamy, magical imaginations of a child who looks at ordinary things and sees something completly magical through the eye's of their imagination that we as adults often miss.

Foreign Lands by Robert Louise Stevenson

Up into the cherry tree

Who should climb but little me?

I held the trunk with both my hands

And looked abroad on foreign lands.

I saw the next door garden lie,

Adorned with flowers before my eye,

And many pleasant places more

That I had never seen before.

I saw the dimpling river pass

And be the sky's blue looking-glass;

The dusty roads go up and down

With people tramping into town.

If I could find a higher tree

Farther and farthter I should see,

To wher the grown-up river slips

Into the sea among the ships.

To where the roads on either hand

lead onward into fairy land,

Where all the children dine at five

And all the playthings come alive.

DK Yarn Details:

80% Superwash Merino

20% Nylon

High Twist for great stitch definiation

100g - 243m

Fingering Weight Yarn Details:

75% Superwash Merino

25% Nylon

100g - 425m

My yarn bases come from a local supplier that prides itself in sourcing its fibre from reliable suppliers with best practices with regard to animal husbandry and the environment, something that is very important to me.

I use acid dyes unless otherwise stated. Disclaimer: I wash all my yarn with wool wash which may aggravate skins that are sensitive to such products. Darker colours may run, bleed or transfer and although I take every precaution to ensure colour fastness I cannot be held responsible for any damage caused by colour transfer or bleeding in a wash.

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