I'm a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and it's Mardi Gras Season, y'all! 

In South Louisiana, from Epiphany (January 6th) through Mardi Gras (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday), you'll find a King Cake at any gathering and (in my family) on the breakfast table. If you aren't familiar with this delight, it's a filled, ring-shaped brioche dough (cinnamon filling is the most common, but cream cheese and fruit fillings are also a thing) that is glazed, and decorated with purple, green, and gold sugars. Each one contains a plastic baby Jesus, and if you get the baby in your slice of cake, you bring the next cake to whatever shindig is next! (It's South Louisiana- there's ALWAYS another shindig). 

It's a favorite treat and so, at my mother's request, I dyed yarn about it! 

Each sock set includes a full-sized skein of King Cake BFL Sock yarn with a coordinating Plastic Baby Jesus mini that is the exact unsettling "flesh tone" of the plastic baby Jesuses (Jesi?) of my childhood King Cakes. (I'm 100% sure our Lord and Savior was NOT this color).

(Mardi Gras Swag not included). 

Republica Unicornia's BFL Sock base is 75% Superwash British Blue Faced Leicester Wool and 25% Nylon, 4-ply, 464 yards/100g. The mini is 92 yards/20 grams. 

Bluefaced Leicester (BFL) is a British sheep breed that produces the most glorious wool: it's soft but a little sheepier than merino, which means it is less prone to pilling. It has a beautiful luster, takes dye wonderfully, and has good stitch definition. (I love it so much.)

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Everything you see here is made with love and some swearing in fabulous Atlanta, Georgia. Yarn is ethically-sourced (museling-free) and dyed with professional, colorfast, lightfast acid dyes. 

Due to the nature of hand-dyed yarn, I recommend that you alternate skeins in larger projects. There are often variations even within the same dyelot.

Some color bleeding is normal during the first couple of washes. I wash the bejebus out of my skeins, but some colors are just bleeders. 

Your handmade items are magical delicate flowers and should be treated as such. Handwash in cool water with a delicate detergent (I recommend Sock Soap from Tuft Woolens) and lay flat to dry. Machine wash at your own risk (I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your project during machine washing. Those things are violent.) 

Yarn is dyed in a pet-free studio. 

I do my best to make sure items are true to color in the photos, but monitors/eyeballs/etc. differ. Blues and greens are especially hard to capture (I'M LOOKING AT YOU, ELECTRIC MRS. PEACOCK.) 

If you have a problem with or a question about your purchase, please contact me directly. I'm a reasonable human being. 

Thank you for supporting Republica Unicornia!