Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Some time back in June I was having a bit of a dilemma, four skeins of amazing yarn, and issues winding them into balls. For some reason it seems sacrilegious to unwind beautiful hanks of yarn and further taint them with knitting that I don't feel 100% about. The biggest thing holding me back from starting a project with my Terra was being unsure how to combine the colors. I had a pale pink that was almost white, a red-gold, a red-purple, and a dark lavender. My first thought was to pair the pink and red together, and the two purples together, but the results proved less than adequate. The pink and red reminded me of a melted candy cane, and the purples didn't match up well at all. I hated frogging the yarn too, not because it didn't frog well...but because I felt bad about it.
I ended up putting the yarn away for a few months, I mean, it's not like I don't have a million more patterns to knit up. So, after forgetting about the Terra completely, I asked my husband for yarn money, to which he wisely answered: "Shop your stash." Duh, I have way to much yarn to begin with. This is how the Terra was rediscovered. Now, at this point, I had picked up an issue of the Fall Knitscene, and in the back of my mind, I remembered a mitten pattern. I realized that it would allow me to use up two skeins of Terra, which is great!
I spent a few hours casting on and trying different color combinations until I finally saw something I liked. The red-gold and the red-purple looked amazing together, while being subtle at the same time. Which left me with the pink and lavender colors to pair together.
I'll have more pics of the finished project soon...when I find my camera again.
4 comments:
That's a gorgeous colour. And hooray I'm able to leave a comment!
Those colors look great together. I can also relate to being stressed by finding the RIGHT project for awesome yarn. It's great when the yarn finally tells you what it wants to be!
Wow! I love your blog! Your writing style is very readable and fun. Your posts are interesting and kicky. You are definately going in my "Read Daily" column.
Now, back to your subject. The mittens are wonderful. And your husband's "shop your stash" comment is what mine should say more often! LOL Can't wait to see the final pics.
Hey Bev, Thank you so much! The mittens are becoming a labor of love though. However, I'm proud the husbeast can use some self control for me when it comes to yarn. The way we budget our money is kind of fun too, we have a pamper Blake fund, and a pamper Natalie fund - which he said was currently being saved for a bunch of Rowan felted tweed.
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