Green Memories

Not my most successful colorwork project; I think the colors turned out kind of boring. I tried to go with the original idea of choosing two main colors, a lighter and darker version of each (blue and purple in my case). Despite my wide selection of Wollmeise Pure colors, I had a hard time finding a combination of four that worked so that the dark version of one color works with the light version of the other, and that all four together would appear balanced. The light purple (Meilenstein) barely stands out from the grey (Maus jung) background, and the dark blue (Moses) appears more teal than I would have expected. It's weird how the context has so much effect on how a color looks. Wolke is a great color that works well with many; who would have known I'd like light blue so much. Well, I'm going to take this project as a lesson on colorwork. And I do like how the tubular cast-on and ribbing turned out.

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Color Craving

Knitting the 2013 Westknits Mystery Shawl really was an adventure, and without a doubt the weirdest shawl I've ever knit. It was fun, even though I don't think I will end up wearing this myself. In any case, I do give Stephen West maximum points for originality and creativity of design.

I used Wollmeise Pure in colorways Wolke, Zarte Knospe and Versuchskaninchen (the green is one of my favorite colors ever). In hindsight, seeing other people's color combinations, I think I would have enjoyed knitting this with neutral colors as A and B, like light and dark grey, and then something bright and saturated for color C, like orange. But I'm not unhappy with this finished item, either.

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