I've got my yarn picked out for Sharon Air. The skeins are sitting there, patiently in a row, wondering why I haven't made them into cakes yet.
This is more of the bamboo/wool blend yarn that Oogy and I enjoyed dyeing earlier this summer. The colors of these skeins are inspired by the wildflowers that grow along the highway in Vermont in mid-July. Cornflowers, Queen Anne's Lace, the dried out grass, and various bright yellow flowers, including Goldenrod and Black Eyed Susans. I used a dilute solution of "lavender" to make the cornflower blue, speckled-dyed with "sangria" to approximate the tiny reddish-purple center of Queen Anne's lace, "straw" for the dried-out grass, and a dilute solution of "golden yellow" for the yellow flowers.
I purposefully left out green, but I am feeling a bit uncertain about that now.
In the meantime, I am working on a center-out project, and I'm on the outer bands of it now. Each row is over 400 stitches and takes forever! The finished object will be nice, but I won't say much about it in case the recipient is looking...I'll just give a little peak of the center. I'm not a huge fan of using stitch markers, but they are essential for this project, and there are 23 of them.
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Those colors are amazing!!! I think it's OK to leave out the green for now - you can always plan to incorporate a leaf-shaped shawl pin or similar to accessorize with! Your new project is so pretty! I find my appreciation of stitch markers growing as I flit from project to project; their use varies from absolutely essential (as in marking a center stitch for increases) to prophylactic (such as the case for your project here) to a pleasant reminder (oh yeah - slip those last stitches WYIF!!!!).
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