Once my As If (ish) is finished, I’m going straight on to Light of the Valkyrie (Knitty link to free pattern) by Kim McBrien Evans (designer’s site, Indigo Dragonfly). It’s the first project I’ve bought myself yarn for this year.
I want to use up some stash to make the striking yoke – do go and have a look if you haven’t already – and I had a lovely old time digging out possible matching and complementary colours. Some of the matches are obvious – teal and purple are quite clearly in among the main yarn. But others were more surprising. There’s a khaki colour in there. There’s a bright green that defied matching. It looks like there’s a yellow, but actually it’s more avocado.
These are the yarns I’ve assembled.
Now, I have a great urge to magic knot these into a variegated yarn. The pattern suggests that you use something with colour repeats between 5 and 10 inches, so I could use that as a guide. I’d put them together in roughly the order shown above.
On the other hand it might be more sensible to change colours when it looks right, as I progress through the pattern. Then I’ll have total control over the colour change, but more ends to sew in… and I won’t get to try a new thing!
If you’ve made up a crazy/magic/scrappy ball of yarn before, I’d love to know what you thought of it. Worth doing?
I’ve added this post to the Unraveled Wednesday linkup, with thanks to Kat for hosting.
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