u/desertgr8pe

Does anyone recognize these? I found some treasures at a local creative reuse store. TIA!

The rainbow cakes are 50g each, superwash, fingering or maybe sport.

The grey and yellow I was sure would be Malabrigos Rios, but I couldn’t find any colorways that matched. They are 100g each, worsted, I’m assuming super wash. The grey one had “Swamp Creature” on the tag, and the yellow one said “Subtle Packers” (lol). None of these had proper yarn labels, just a little price tag from the store selling it.

I’m working on Cypress Textiles’ 2026 VVCAL using two skeins of Sultan Kings Cotton Gradient in Tanzanite. I’m planning to keep the gradient in the hexagon layout, but will need ideally another 100g of the darkest color for the border. I’d really rather not buy directly from Hobbii anymore (I’m avoiding private equity as much as I can, and their recent post about AI, and then terrible apology once they realized we all hate AI, gives me even less desire to purchase from them). But even if I would, the darkest blue doesn’t seem to be one of the colors they offer as Sultan solids.

So here’s where I’d like your opinions:

1. do you know a different fingering or light fingering 100% cotton yarn that comes in a very very dark blue?

2. should I just buy one more skein of tanzanite (ideally from someone’s Ravelry stash) and only use the darkest color? This is probably the simplest solution but this is a stashbusting project and I’d really rather not have leftover yarn!

3. can you think of another solution?

TIA!