Swatches
Here are some very quickly done swatches of the Kool-Aid yarn I dyed Saturday. I should probably knit a little more on each one, but I wanted to get them started and out there for your comments.
They don't look anything like I envisioned them to be, so that's kinda cool. The second swatch is the first skein I dyed, and I like it more than I thought I would.Have a great night!
posted by Paul @ 9:29 PM
28 Comments:
I'm still liking #1 bestest. #4 looks like it will turn into those reb white and blue sucks, er, socks I just finished. EXCELLANT for your first try!!
...and when you actually knit them into somehting it isn't going to be a little swatch, so I think that will change the look too. I noticed that just in changing from the mittens to the hat.
Most impressive balls...
:o)
I can't be serious for an entire post, are you new???
Oh, I was expecting a ball comment somewhere from those I love...
You know you would have been disappointed...of course...your balls can't compare to the bag shaving I read about earlier tonight...
The bar has been raised.
err..ummm..so to speak.
Bag shaving? What the hell were you reading earlier tonight? Bag shaving....
A knitting blog...I am prety sure..there weren't any photos so I am guessing here.
Oy.....
http://shutupandknit.typepad.com/knitgirl/
Even I couldn't make this up!
How funny is that! You truly amaze me with what you can find on the internet...
Cookie reads me..I read cookie...she is a hoot. That has to be a classic knitting blog..bag shaving...priceless...
Notice who responded first?
Good thing I checked in before bed. Sheesh, youse peoples over there!
Yeah, COOKIE was first on the bag shaving. I was just passing through, Like now.
OK, have a good night, you blogger chatters. lol
See, he just has a sixth sense when we are talking about him. Do you think he has tapped our e-mail accounts too? Night Dave...
Night Dave!
Yeah, he's probably tapped in, or else he's psychic and just knows when we're causin' trouble......
If you felt, you have to shave.
Just sayin'...
Love the yarn, Pauly. Can't wait to see how they knit up. Socks, right?
I love your balls... of yarn Paul geez. I especially like the first one, but then again I'm partial to pastels and lighter colors.
Hugs!
The yarn is excellent! Love the movement in them - especially the second one - maybe because it seems to have more colors in it - at least on my computer screen -.
The last one red/blue love the way it chunks...(new word...really like it...reminds me of some of the hair coloring I saw in Quebec City...) No, not the color - just the chunks of a particular color :) (although there were a few with strange looking colors on their heads...)
Great Balls!
The round yarn things are nice too. ;)
This place is corrupting me...
It's not this place. It's Ann. I used to be such a quiet guy. Then I started blogging. Then it all went in the toilet...... Now I'm a mess... LOL!
Blame the knitting faerie, honey. He's the one that got you into this mess. ;^)
Blinking innocently...me? I am a mild mannered mid-western BFE livin' knitter.
Me evil? I blame Dave for bringing us together..an innocent enough post to his blog--please visit this guy.
Little did he know that once the evil twins were united, all hell would break loose.
heh heh heh
Don't you just LOVE it?
The swatches are great. I especially like the pink and green; very springy.
Ann, think of me fondly when y'all take over the world.
What wonderful skeins!! And then you roll it up into a ball, and they are all mixed up! Start knitting, and there is a whole new configuration! Amazing!
But you know of course, that a small swatch like that means nothing. If it was larger, the whole thing would look drastically different. And if knit in the round, for socks or mittens, it's another whole different thing. And even more different is a sweater knit in the round! To get a particular pattern showing up, you have to know how the yarn is going to be used and for what, and to dye it accordingly. Oh, this makes my head hurt.. too much math!!
Thank you all for the kind words about the yarn. Some of it will be going to my dye buddy, but I'm just not sure which ones yet. I still have 2 more skeins to dye, so we'll see what I do with them...
Thanks again.
Hey Paul,
nice job on the dyeing! Although not particularly "my" colors, I really like the way the green/pink is knitting up.... yeah, that Dave's got him some competition now *grin*
The pink and green reminds me of watermelon. uuummmmmm melon.
Poor Ann, she always gets blamed for everything. *L*
Swatches look great! I kinda like the pink/green one too, reminds me of spring.
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