I guess I'm learning that picking one's colors, before picking the yarn, very difficult. I've been surfing for hours trying to find a worsted, that really has a scarlet and a gold, and I think I want a bit of olive, but that's never hard to find. And I always mix yarns and often feel like I shouldn't so it was important to me to try to find this perfect merino for a blanket. But so far I've got a list of possibilities, but that's it!Like Liberty's wool, the gold is so dull. And Swan's Island Worsted, no gold at all, Dream in Color, is so highly variegated, and Crystal palace's merino 5 solid has something called crimson but would that pass for scarlet?
Knitting blog about the lore of the art, the forms of the fibers, the lure of the patterns, and about the challenges ahead.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Deaf and Blind Still ‘Coloring’ the World brilliantly
Graphic artist Alvin Lustig went blind years before his premature death, but memorized all the number of the Pantone color system so that he could still work the hues and shades in his mind’s eye.
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