I'm looking for ideas of how best to use sample packs of lots of colors of one type of wool, in small quantities.
I rumaged through my stash and found the sample pack of the dyed Haltwhistle wool tops yesterday. There's 16 colors, slightly over 1 ounce each. I don't have a clue what to make with them, though! The colors aren't really designed to go together, though I'm able to make three nice groupings--deeps, a group of sea blues plus one purple, and a group of near-neutral, light, warm colors. I also tried arranging them by value, which was a fun exercise. I then took a picture, loaded it into the computer, changed it to grayscale, and found that I guessed pretty good--only one change was needed (but I left out the canary yellow altogether because it's so bright!). I keep thinking of spinning random amounts of each color in turn, then Navajo plying it, and then doing some sort of modular knitting, where the color changes would show to advantage, and spread out the differences of hue and value, but I'm not sure. For one thing, this wool needs LOTS of twist to hold together--the usual problem of commercial top, the crimp seems to be processed right out of it--but the wool isn't all that soft, and I always hesitate adding a lot of twist to wool that isn't very soft. And then I never did find any resources for knitting shapes other than squares and rectangles on the Internet in modular knitting. So, I need ideas! :) Holly To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
