Okay, so the Mid-October Surprise sale continues, at least through Friday — all yarns are $24.50 each, with just $1-per-skein for shipping. All available yarns are shown on the Blog Reader Specials page.
But I was sitting here musing about some of the yarns and how they could be used together. What about a simple triangular shawl pattern, but using 2 different colorways, with 8- or 10-row bands of each color, BUT doing stockinette for one color, then reverse stockinette for the other color. It would result in a welted texture, rather than just a plain smooth stockinette all the way. You could do a 5-stitch garter stitch or seed stitch border along each side going across the top.
This is just one way to use different coordinating or contrasting colors.
So I pulled out some Twinsets that feel like they’d work together in such a scheme. First I got a picture of them all, and then made different pairings, shown down below.
Your color sense and inspiration is probably different from mine. I realize the sun and shadows wreak havoc on trying to judge individual pictures, and I would be more than happy to photograph whatever combination you’d like to see together. Just email me and let me know which yarns you’d like. I can’t control the sun or shadows but I can at least photograph combinations all in one light at the same time. 🙂
