Black Cat Fibers Essential DK — Hand Dyed Yarn

12 nerdy, whimsical, wildly colorful skeins — each hand dyed with love, chaos, and a sense of humor. From gothic gardens to space cows to unicorn battles, there's a colorway here for every flavor of wonderful.

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Black Cat Fibers produces small-batch hand dyed yarn with colorways named after the things that make life interesting — video games, gothic vibes, nebulae, cryptids, and that specific feeling of not needing anyone's approval. Each skein is a work of art. No two are perfectly alike, and that's the whole point.

These skeins are sold individually through Michi Made Boutique. Stock is limited — when a colorway is gone, it may be gone for good.

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Base: Essential DK

Weight: DK / Light Worsted

Fiber: Superwash Merino Wool

Yardage: ~231 yds / 100g / 4 oz

Dyer: Black Cat Fibers

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The Colorways

🐱 Goths in the Garden

PaletteSunflower yellowCharcoal brownSilver greyNeon green flash

Black clothes, sunflowers, and a complete refusal to be categorized. This is the colorway for the goth who secretly loves summer — or the cottagecore girlie with a dark side. Dramatic contrast with that shock of neon to keep things interesting.

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🐱 Shrinks & Trains

PaletteDeep purpleHot pinkCobalt blueDark oliveSilver grey

Complex, moody, and frankly therapeutic. A riot of purple, pink, and deep shadows that looks like a very productive session — followed by a train journey where you stare out the window and feel all your feelings.

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🐱 Space Cow

PaletteBlush pinkCream whiteDeep purpleHot magentaRainbow speckles

Somewhere in the universe there is a cow floating peacefully among the stars, and she is wearing this colorway. Soft and dreamy on the base with unexpected pops of deep purple and the tiniest rainbow speckles that reveal themselves slowly as you knit.

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🐱 Alexandrite

PaletteTealMagentaDeep purpleCream

Named for the gemstone that shifts from green to red depending on the light — and this yarn pulls off the same trick. Teal and magenta swirl through deep purple in a way that makes your project look different in every room you knit it in. Absolutely mesmerizing.

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🐱 Dragon Fruit

PaletteHot pinkDeep crimsonCream whiteBlack specklesLime green

Exactly as dramatic and exotic as it sounds. The hot pink bleeds into deep red while the cream sections are scattered with dark speckles like the inside of the fruit itself. A total showstopper — especially against the lime green undertone in the surrounding skeins.

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🐱 Dryad

PaletteVivid tealChartreuseDark brownBlackCool grey

For the tree spirit at heart — someone who listens to forest ambience playlists and genuinely considers talking to plants a social life. The teal and chartreuse shimmer against dark earthy tones like sunlight hitting a moss-covered rock. Deeply satisfying to knit.

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🐱 Enjoy the Silence

PaletteDeep purpleElectric tealCrimson redStorm greyCharcoal

Put on your headphones. Turn off your notifications. This is the colorway for those sacred hours when you knit alone and the world falls blissfully away. Deep, complex, and quietly dramatic — the kind of colorway that doesn't need to announce itself.

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🐱 Grave Rave

PaletteNeon limeChartreuseDark brownBlackAsh white

When the party doesn't stop just because the sun went down — or because everyone is technically dead. Neon greens glow against dark earthy tones in a colorway that is equal parts haunted and absolutely unhinged. Perfect for the goth who shows up to parties uninvited and ends up being the most fun person there.

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🐱 Helix Nebula

PaletteDeep blackBurnt orangeSteel blueCream white

Inspired by the real Helix Nebula — the Eye of God — a planetary nebula 650 light years away that looks exactly like this yarn. The deep black void, the burnt orange halo, the cool blue gas rings. For the space nerd, the astronomer, and anyone who has ever stared up at the night sky and felt gloriously small.

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🐱 I Don't Need Your Approval

PaletteHot pinkBright cyanCream white

Loud, proud, and completely unbothered. This colorway doesn't ask if the colors go together — it already knows they do. Hot pink and cyan white-knuckle it through the skein like they're running late and don't care. For the person who has heard "that's a lot of color" one too many times and has decided to lean in.

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🐱 Rainbow in the Dark

PaletteNeon magentaCyanYellowPurpleRed-orangeBlack base

Every color is brighter when it has something dark to shine against. This is a full neon rainbow living against a black base — vivid, electric, and impossible to ignore. A love letter to the era of glowing neon signs and late nights, and to the fact that rainbows are most spectacular when you least expect them.

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🐱 Unicorns VS Narwhals

PaletteTealLime greenHot pinkYellowRedCobalt blue

The eternal debate settled in fiber form: neither wins, everyone gets a skein. This is the most chaotically joyful colorway in the collection — a full-spectrum explosion where every color shows up and refuses to be the least important one. For the person who can't pick a favorite color. (Correct choice.)

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