What’s up with those colors?
I got the yarn for my argyle socks last week.
I placed another order for yarn for my argyle socks yesterday.
See, I ordered Knitpicks palette yarn, which seems nice. It looks nice. It feels nice. But the color samples they have posted on their website? …not so nice.
I planned a black sock, with blue and lighter blue boxes (not sure what they are called, argyles?) and white lines. The black is good. (“It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.” – Nigel Tufnel). I ordered Navy for the darker color. It’s so dark, I can barely tell the difference between it and the black. in fact, I knit a swatch,and switch colors halfway through. I had to hold it right under a florescent light to see where the color change was. The lighter blue, Marine Heather, is now going to be my darker blue. I have more yarn coming, as I don’t have a light blue.
At least now I know what size needle I need for gauge, and I have a shiny new wooden 3mm 32″ circular needle coming.
Hopefully I’ll get the new yarn next week before Thanksgiving, so I can work it at the relatives.
Kind of like showing off.
That’s not bad is it?