{"id":344,"date":"2024-06-30T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:26:09","slug":"well-thats-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/well-thats-a-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That’s a Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Sunday!<\/p>\n

I started last night’s dye session with the idea I wanted to try a cool gray, a warm gray, and a French gray.\u00a0 These are colors in my big collection of Prismacolor color pencils, with (if I remember correctly) 5 gradients in each range, from 20% to 100% saturation in each.\u00a0 \u00a0I know that cool gray leans toward blues, warm gray leans toward reds, and French gray leans toward browns\/neutrals.<\/p>\n

Obviously I don’t have computerized color\/dye matching or a huge manufacturing plant; I could not hope to create the correct proportions for those gradient saturations in each range.\u00a0 But I could try mixing my base gray with “just a smidge” of a primary blue, a primary red, or brown.\u00a0 Apparently what I considered a smidge turned out to be quite overpowering so I ended up with a slightly grayed blue, slightly grayed red, and slightly grayed brown.\u00a0 \u00a0UGH!\u00a0 Not at all what I wanted.\u00a0 \u00a0Next time (if I grant myself another attempt) I will have to increase the gray by a factor of three or four, and reduce the add-in colors to barely a hint or suggestion.\u00a0 \u00a0 However, Twinset #498-499 is almost<\/em><\/strong> the French gray I was hoping for, even though it is still more brown than I’d like.<\/p>\n

Even with my disappointment in the grays, I think all of this week’s Twinsets came out pretty good overall.\u00a0 \u00a0Twinset #496-497 in particular reminds me of a partly cloudy sky over a meadow in full\u00a0 riotous bloom.\u00a0 Similar meadow colors appear in #506-507 and #512-513. Twinset #502-503 is a straight gray fade.<\/p>\n

All of these are on Phydlbitz Sock, and would normally be $27.50 on the Blog Reader Specials page, but for today and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday) you can claim any two or more, matching or not for $25.50 each skein.<\/p>\n

To claim the ones you want just\u00a0send me an email<\/strong><\/a> with your requests.\u00a0 I’ll mark your requests off the Available Yarns tally chart below and then send you a PayPal invoice.\u00a0 Even if you don’t have a PayPal account, they can process your credit or debit cards, and they collect your shipping information to expedite the shipping process. Upon payment I will prepare and print your shipping label right away, so that when the yarns are fully dried and reskeined, I can ship without delay.\u00a0 \u00a0 I expect this week’s collection to be ready to ship on or about Thursday<\/span><\/del> Friday<\/strong> of this week.\u00a0 (I forgot that Thursday will be a postal holiday.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Available Yarns<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 1 – <\/strong>496, 497<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>498<\/span><\/del>, 499, <\/strong><\/span>500, 501<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>502, 503<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>504<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>505<\/span><\/del>, <\/strong>506<\/span><\/del>, 507<\/strong><\/span>
\nRack 2 – 508, 509, <\/strong>510<\/span><\/del>, 511, <\/strong>512<\/span><\/del>, 513, 514, 515, <\/strong>516, 517<\/span><\/del>, 518, 519<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Sunday! I started last night’s dye session with the idea I wanted to try a cool gray, a warm gray, and a French gray.\u00a0 These are colors in my big collection of Prismacolor color pencils, with (if I remember correctly) 5 gradients in each range, from 20% to 100% saturation in each.\u00a0 \u00a0I know … Continue reading Well, That’s a Surprise!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-reader-specials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}