You choose, I knit!
So my dear friends, it has come down to this. I cannot decide which colors I want for my Cherry Blossom Shawl. I am cheap - we all know that - so it will have to be one of KnitPick's color choices. I have narrowed down the color choices that seem doable for me below, and I will leave it up to you to make the choices.
Peppermint and Autumn are from their Alpaca Cloud collection, which is 100% baby alpaca. The bottom two - Sunset and Vineyard, from their Shadow collection, are 100% merino wool. Personally, I would have preferred a darker shade of Peppermint, but hey, that's just me.
A 5th option would be to purchase their Dye Your Own (in white), knit the cherry blossom shawl, then stick that whole shawl in a dye pot after I'm done knitting. That will be a new learning experience for me, since I have no clue in this whole dyeing arena. Unless someone is willing to do the dyeing for me after I'm done knitting, I will be forever indebted to you.
**Poll Closed. 82 votes total. Results: 35.37% Peppermint, 10.98% Autumn, 23.17% Sunset, 18.29% Vineyard, 12.2% Dye Your Own**
posted by winnie @ 3:57 PM
6 Comments:
Vineyard, just because.
i say to dye your own BEFORE knitting... i ordered some orchid shine from knitpicks and the color looks COMPLETELY different from the one displayed. that's just my take tho...
So are you planning to just use one of the colors or a multi-colored approach? In the picture it looks like the shawl is pink & reddish. Either way, any of the colors you chose would be lovely.
I voted for the Autumn, because a friend of mine got some of that Alpaca from KnitPicks, and it is divine! And I'm partial to brown, but the pink would probably be a bit darker than it looks.
And I agree, if you go with the dye your own, dye it before you knit it. It would be devastating to have it ruined or turn out in a color you don't like once it is knit.
i voted 'dye your own'. i think it would be an adventurous project to knit it in white, and then dye it! if it's white, and wool, you can kool-aid dye it. you could get some nice effects by "painting" the colors on, or letting the ends or center sit in the dyebath and soak up the color, making a long fade ..... just some ideas.
or, take a look around at other shawls. what do you like about their colors? how are they dyed?
i dyed a finished 'one skein wonder'. i liked how the color came out uneven, "unsolid". my friend prefers to dye the yarn first, then knit. i don't like how the yarn is sort of 'stripey' then.
we're all different!
good luck with your choice :)
I've bought their Dye Your Own yarn and used Kool-Aid. I liked how it turned out and it was more fun than difficult :) Though Kool-Aid may be a little too neon for a shawl...
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