One more custom order down, I figured I'd share. I made two skeins for the customer in varying depths of shade and coverage of the skeins. She wanted baby green and yellow merino wool to knit longies out of. For those who don't know what longies are, they're pants-style diaper covers to use over prefolds in cloth diapering, and very absorbent. Merino, especially holds a great deal of moisture without feeling wet, and is soft as well as warm.

I wanted to give her exactly the skein she pictured, so after several trial skeins I came up with these (ignore the sock yarn next to them, that was not finished at the time and is now overdyed with deep turquoise):

The one on the far left is actually more dyed than it looks, the bulk of the plain field just happened to be in the front. The on the right was overdyed with a very pale mint green (similar to the wall color, actually) and the yellow and green on the skein is in stronger dilutions, but it is hard to tell. They are different and will work up differently, but once I reskeined the hanks they looked remarkably similar. This is what I sent to the customer for her to choose from. The one she does not pick will end up in my store, or she may buy them both - it's her choice but I wanted to give her some options so she is happy with her order in case one skein was not to her tastes.

The softer, more pale skein:

The stronger color scheme with the mint overdye:

I am quite happy with them, and I cannot wait to see a cute little newborn bum covered in the longies made from this!