But unlike Smaug, I’m more than happy to share my treasure with others. In the past, I have given my yarn scraps away to sock yarn blanket and dolls’ clothes knitters. Now I’d like to knit some gifts with them.
I think it’s going to be a real challenge to make something beautiful with these small quantities of yarn. Well, maybe ‘beautiful’ is raising the bar too high. Let’s say something really nice. Gifts that won’t force the recipients to lie about how much they love them.
Will I be able to do that? And will I be able to step outside my colour comfort zone and use those bright green, orange, red and yellow mini skeins? I’m not sure, but I’ll give it a try.
I took the picture below, of a roundabout just outside our village, several days ago. Not my colours in knitting, but on a roundabout? Wow!
What a lovely post. I think you have a truly great sense of colour!
My two cents:
– I think you know very well what looks best on you and your blues and pinks look great on you. But I do want to mention the deep berry red shawl you knitted for someone else last year, Thús in Balayage, did look really good on you as well, in my opinion.
– Mini skeins are great for fingerless mittens, especially with stripes, or for full mittens in stranded colourwork, where you combine them with a neutral for the background.
– I just had a color analysis done (email me if you’d like to see the results) and the consultant said, you can use the colours you love but that don’t look good on you for other things, like in your interior. She’s a Winter type, and she used a lovely soft warm brownish Autumn pink she loved for her kitchen walls. I think I’ve seem some warm ochre in your interior on previous pictures?
Can’t wait to see your ‘mini projects’.
I’ll keep the deep berry colour in mind for future projects. Although I gave the Balayage shawl away, I did like it a lot. Stranded colourwork with a neutral background is a good idea, too, although I’m not sure about using self-striping sock yarn. The ochre on our walls was just a primer the plasterers put on before they started painting. Having said that, we do have one sunny yellow wall in our kitchen that I absolutely love. Thank you for your two cents!
Saved those odd bits for pop in more complicated (maybe Fair Isle?) projects…sometimes it’s the colors that we think don’t quite go that really please in the eye in the finished whole. Or…you could always just knit something up like a small blanket, working your way through your rainbow? Just a thought.
Great idea, a small pop of colour in a Fair Isle style project. And on the whole I’m not a big fan of those sock yarn blankets, but I do like some that do not place the colours at random, but have a form of rainbow. Thanks for your thoughts!