Good morning, and happy Friday to you. I thought I would do something a little different today. I found three patterns that each use three skeins of fingering-weight yarn, and I put together some colorway combos to go with them.
The Patterns
I chose one pattern each for knitting, crochet, and Tunisian crochet, and all of them call for two semi-solids and one variegated colorway. The links are to Ravelry, but you can probably find them elsewhere if you prefer.
For the knitting pattern, I chose Magical Thinking by Casapinka. She refuses to use the word poncho in her description, but I chose this pattern because I personally love ponchos, and her patterns are always so much fun. Ponchos are the ultimate practical and fun accessory–like a blanket you can legitimately wear in public.
The next pattern is a crochet pattern called Waroo by Deanne Ramsay. It’s a lovely shawl with a 3-skein option and a 4-skein option.
The last pattern is a Tunisian crochet pattern. I basically know nothing about Tunisian crochet, but this pattern looked so beautiful. It’s called Despite by Natalie @Detroit Knots. I love what she said about the name.
I should add that the colorway combos would work great for weaving as well with the two semi-solids as warp stripes and the variegated colorway as the weft.
The Yarn Combos
I took yarn I had in stock in Sock Perfection, Sparkly Merino Sock, Stained Glass Sock, and So Silky Sock, and I created color combinations using (mostly) two semi-solids and one variegated or speckled colorway that would look great with any of the three patterns above and many more as well.
Let’s start with the combos on Sock Perfection:
This next colorway combo is one where I went a little beyond two semi-solids, but Kristin Lavransdatter is sort of halfway between a tonal yarn and a true variegated yarn, so I thought it would work well.___
Let me show you the trios I can up with for Sparkly Merino Sock next:
For this set we have one semi-solid, one variegated, and one very subtle speckled colorway, so once again I fudged on the two semi-solids, but I think they would work nicely nonetheless.
The next trio is made from Contentment, Copper Roof, and Hope. I truly did not make Copper Roof and Hope to go together, but it sure looks like I did, doesn’t it?
Next I’d like to show you a few colorway combos that use Stained Glass Sock.
The last and most luxurious yarn base is So Silky Sock. Here are some trios on that base:
You may notice that I didn’t include Squiggle Sock, but I think it would be great to substitute in one skein for any of these with Squiggle Sock for that fantastic texture.
In Other News
In other news, I started dyeing up the Eight Days of Easter kits yesterday, and so far it is going really well. If you ordered one, I hope you really enjoy the kit.
Also, I am continuing to dye up the Ukraine colorways of Freedom Blue and Sunflower. So far together we have been able to donate just under $500 to the Ukraine Solidarity Fund through the sale of Sunflower. I have some in stock and more in the preorder section of my shop. You can find it all right here.
As you may have noticed from the colorway combos above, I dyed up a new batch of A Light in Dark Places this week on lots of different yarn bases. I dyed it on Wonderful Worsted and So Silky Sock for the first time. The 50% silk in So Silky Sock makes the yarn dye up with somewhat softer colors. Here that is:
As I mentioned before, this colorway was inspired by the light Galadriel gives Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. It seems to me that the world looks an awful lot like The Lord of the Rings just now.
On a personal note, it’s spring break for the kids, and we got to go ride an old train in East Texas yesterday. It was a lot of fun for all of us.
I hope you have a great week and find some time for the creativity and stress relief of the fiber arts.