Sometimes making choices is easy. Like choosing between knitting or crochet, pineapples or kiwis, driving or knitting, etc. And sometimes it’s not. Like choosing colours.
Yarn Porn
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For this particular project, I wanted an overall cohesive look. But it gets difficult to achieve when you have to match both seven colours together with high contrast colourwork requirements! So I opted for the safe bet with pink-red-orange shades. Building a colour palette tips and tricks.
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Sometimes colours speak to me, and sometimes it does not. As right now. I choose colours which worked together “on paper” but actually did not once knitted. I trusted my choices every time and even almost started without swatching at all. Well, I’m glad I did and you should too when it’s about colourwork.
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I came back from Aix-en-Provence with great memories of this beautiful city, delicious smells and recipe ideas from Le Chat qui Tricote newly opened tea and yarn shop, new knitting…
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It took me almost a year to finish but this fingering Mermaid Tail handspun skeins are ready right on time for Christmas! It will be the perfect present for a dear friend of mine 🙂
A new Yarn Crash-Test with Petit Bout de Laine Sweet’Fingering. In a nutshell: Softness and roundness.