Warm walnut and cocoa brown against creamy natural white, like fresh wood shavings curling off a well-worn bench. Just one shade of brown on white: simple, mellow, and honest, a colorway that stands on its own.

The Carpenter is one of five colorways we dyed in collaboration with The Arcadian Wild for their newest album, Make It Out Alive. Each one is named after a song from the record. This song was written by Isaac's bandmate Bailey as an ode to her dad and everything he did for their family. One line comes back again and again: "We owe it all to the Carpenter." It was the last colorway Isabel designed in this collection, and the one she cared most about getting right. It was also the only one Isaac matched correctly in our guessing game.

 Watch Isabel break down this colorway with Isaac Horn on our podcast.

Winter giving way to spring. Bright leaf greens and deep olive swirl over natural white, with flashes of slate and charcoal grey drifting through like the last of the winter fog. Lively, speckled, and full of contrast.

Spinnin' is a song about the cycle of the seasons and the way they pull us along: the trenches of winter, when it feels like the dark will last forever, and then the relief of spring when it doesn't. Isaac wrote it during a brutal Nashville ice storm. Isabel, who grew up through nine-month Wyoming winters, wanted the skein to move from bleak greys and whites into the greens of spring. 

Spinnin' is one of five colorways we dyed in collaboration with The Arcadian Wild for their newest album, Make It Out Alive. Each one is named after a song from the record. Watch Isabel break down Spinnin' with Isaac Horn on our podcast.

Autumn in the hills, wound into a skein. A rich ginger tonal overdyed with deep chocolate gives warm rust, burnt copper, and chestnut tones that shift from stitch to stitch, like bark and oak leaves along the ridgeline.

Edge of the Ozarks is Isaac's song about growing up in Arkansas: summers on his grandparents' farm, running through the woods, and every bit of trouble he and his siblings got into. It's Isabel's favorite song on the album. Listening to it, all she could see was the rich color of bark and wood. She started from Honeyed Ginger, the colorway she knit her own sweater in, and took it much darker. It came out perfect on the very first try, and she didn't change a thing. Isaac says it calls to mind the hook in the chorus, "there's treasure in these woods": there are flashes of gold hidden away in it, like a gem waiting to be found.

Edge of the Ozarks is one of five colorways we dyed in collaboration with The Arcadian Wild for their newest album, Make It Out Alive. Each one is named after a song from the record. Watch Isabel break down this colorway with Isaac Horn on our podcast.

Soft, dusty denim blue with streaks of plum and violet running through it. Make It Out Alive is quiet and a little wistful, like the sky just after a storm passes. The blue keeps it calm, and the purples bring it to life.

This was the hardest colorway in the collection to get right. The album cover is bright and jewel-toned, so Isabel started with a vibrant yellow tonal layered with saturated colors, and it was a mess. (If you bought a bulky SHY Labs skein from our backlog drop that looks like some kind of monster creation, you're holding one of those first attempts.) The song is about accepting that life will hurt you no matter what, and finding there's still so much beauty past the fear. After listening to it over and over, what she heard was waves of peace and contentment with sparks of hope running through. So she scrapped the bright version and dyed a muted denim tonal with purple streaks of hope.

Make It Out Alive is one of five colorways we dyed in collaboration with The Arcadian Wild for their newest album, Make It Out Alive. Each one is named after a song from the record. Watch Isabel break down this colorway with Isaac Horn on our podcast.