You know how I always talk about colour? How I've clearly found my calling because I love being surrounded by colourful yarn all the time? And sometimes I'm minding my own business in my office when I look over at the drying racks and am completely enamored with the colour combo's that happened to fall into place? Well, Chris does it too. Another reason why I love that guy. The other day he stops in the office and admires the racks and says that he would love to own a striped sweater knit in those colours (I should have taken a picture because I have no idea what colours they were...) and then as I get up to come and admire the colours with him, he says to me: "never mind, you wouldn't get it, it's not a tonal rainbow."
What!? Is he trying to tell me that I only like colour pairings that make a perfect gradient rainbow!? That's totally banana's.
And then I started thinking... maybe he's right! Maybe I'm in a rut. I was laying out all of my Green Label aran weight yarn and getting it labeled and boxed up for the K-W Knitter's Fair next week when I noticed that I had lined them up in rainbow formation...
I had printed out my stickers to label all that yarn and, you guessed it, more rainbow formation...
And last night I started a new sweater. I love it, it's going to be amazing, I don't have a picture of it yet, but it's going to look like this hat, only in cardigan form and, yup, totally blue rainbow formation.
I think I'm going to make it a goal to knit something colourful that is not a tonal rainbow at some point. I seem to have a "thing".
First off, tonal rainbow as an organizational tool is VERY useful, so it makes sense to organize your labels and banding like that. You're a visual person, organizing by alphabetical color name would probably be jarring and confusing because you'd have to go through the color gradient in your mind in order to figure out which color was next.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's nice to have someone around with a different color theory norm than yours. It shakes things up a bit!
Good luck at the fair!
Tonal is good!!! I am a very visual person and think this way also - it's a good thing - I love it so much I am knitting my second ombre !!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the new sweater but I totally think you need to grab chris's thoughts on that coloured sweater he wants. He's great with the dyeing so maybe he has a fab sweater in his head just waiting to be put on paper.
ReplyDeleteOh, I never get tired of your shots with the big, beautiful piles of gorgeous yarn!! Love it, and I'm excited to see your new cardi!
ReplyDeletenothing wrong with having a 'thing'! but, conversely, sometimes it's really good to force yourself outside of your comfort zone. sometimes that's where you learn the most. but it's also nice knowing what to go back to for some comfort knitting!
ReplyDeleteLove the picture of all that yarn!!
ReplyDeleteAnd your cardigan is going to be beautiful!