Spring 26 Yarn Colors
“How do you pick your colors?” is one of the questions I get most often and it’s also one of the hardest to answer.
Color is emotional. It’s particular. It lives somewhere between instinct and memory. I tend to return to certain colors again and again, to the point where I sometimes forget how I even arrived at them in the first place. And it’s never just about a single color it’s about how colors sit next to each other, how they push and pull, soften or sharpen one another.
For Spring 26, like most seasons, I found myself settling into a warm palette. I rarely move toward cooler tones, and when I do, they tend to be the warmest version of themselves like cerulean paint sitting in a sunbeam.
One combination I come back to constantly is what I call non-Christmasy red and green NCRG. It’s a pairing I love, but one that requires care to avoid feeling too literal. This season, I explored a deeper, more nuanced version of that relationship something richer, more grounded, a little more grown into.
Some of the colors come directly from the objects I live with every day. The tint of my favorite sunglasses. The exact shade I wish my Carhartt jacket had been. Others are pulled from nature the perfect frond green, a soft spring petal, something fleeting that I try to hold onto just long enough to translate into yarn.
Together, they form a kind of portrait. Not just of a season, but of my daily life my routines, my surroundings, the things I’m drawn to without always realizing why.
Material plays a huge role in how color is experienced. A plastic surface can hold color in a way that feels glossy, fixed, almost untouched by time. Yarn is the opposite. It absorbs color. It softens it. It carries a kind of built-in nostalgia, a depth that feels lived-in even when it’s new.
All of our yarns this season are hand painted by artisans in Peru, and that process adds another layer of humanity to the palette. Each skein holds variation, subtle shifts, the mark of a hand rather than a machine. It’s part of what makes these colors feel alive.
SP26 Pima DEGEN DK will launch this week (April 17+18) at Nash Yarn Fest and will then be available online.
Welcome to the palette: Bone, Sundried, Palm, Berry, Desert, Thistle
