Color blending update

I got busy with swatching after the Shetland Wool Week workshop with Tracey Doxey.  A follow-up workshop is scheduled this weekend, and these are some images of the swatches and projects I completed since the first workshop to show at this next meeting.  

I finished the first hat, and it has now reached its recipient.  Just in time for our daytime temperatures to get back to 70 degrees!

I made a second swatch using another combination of neutral and botanically-inspired colors.

This did not get translated into a hat, yet.  I was not happy with the swatch, but when I showed it to the Camel Knitters they were all impressed.  Which of the three combos do you like best?

I opted instead to go back to my Lerwick Flower Park design and used some of the same neutrals and greens for that.  Both the swatch and the hat are made with Uradale wool from Shetland. 

There's a third swatch:

Which I used as inspiration for this hat:

Since I finished these items, I've been focused on using my Bee Croft acquisition of three skeins of DK weight in natural colors which are named after some of the sheep: Barnacle, Butterscotch, and Busby.

From top to bottom: Broken Acre in Barnacle, Old Shale in Butterscotch, and Vandyke Lace in Busby.  

It's a massive project that I hope will serve as a hap when it's done.  It's so big now that I can't conceal it under the computer camera and it won't fit into my school bag, so I've had to use other knitting for all those Zoom meetings!  Making lace in DK weight yarn is a bit unconventional, but I expect that it will look much better when it's blocked.  I only swatched the center pattern, and it looks great, so let's hope blocking does its magic on the other sections, too.

I hope that your knitting projects are going well and keeping you happy!