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February 28, 2006
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
So here I am knitting along on Olympia, swatching my red socks [yeah I know I said after jays but did you really believe me?], and knitting a bit on the scarf. Busy knitting. Tomorrow Project Spectrum begins with the Colors Red & Pink. Last month, after signing up for Project Spectrum, I took all my WW and heavier yarns upstairs and arranged them in cubbies. This is some sorta desperate attempt to eat into my stash. I figure if it takes a cubby's worth of Aran weight yarn to knit a sweater in oh 4-6 weeks VS a piddly 100gm hank of laceweight for a shawl that takes oh 4-6 months then knitting the Aran weight would mean that room would appear more quickly. Makes sense eh. Anyway this laughable ploy, and I know you are laughing at me, will last a NY Minute. Maybe less considering that the item I am swatching is socks in fingering weight yarn. I did however take a picture of the 2 cubbies housing Reds and Pinks. Which brings us to today's title~ you know how you can read a zillion color theory books and just not get it? Or maybe it's just me. Put two reds together; one true red or maybe a wee bit blue red and the other a very dark blue red bordering on purple and the true red sucks all the red out of the dark red and voila: red and purple. Don't believe me? Proof:
The contents of these two cubbies are: 20 balls of Jaeger Shetland Aran in Burgandy[that's the seemingly purple stuff]& 20 balls of a novelty called Toscana[oooh it feels sooooooo soft] for sweaters, 3 balls of Kid Classic for a scarf[the much maligned Cluster Stitched Daisy scarf], Morehouse 3-ply Merino for mittens, Finullgarn for the socks, and various oddballs of red and pink yarns~ up to 4 of any particular one~ destined for who knows what. I think that's it.
yarny days and knitterly evenings
Posted by Elka at February 28, 2006 09:07 PM
Comments
oooh Elka- your stash looks yummy! I am still in the purple phase, perhaps red could be next. No, I look horrible in red, but it looks very tempting.
Posted by: Lorraine The Knitting Hammy at March 1, 2006 09:24 AM