Would you believe . . .

These two skeins of yarn are a very vibrant deep royal purple of very nearly the same shade.


And just to make things interesting, I've placed the two purple skeins next to two blue skeins of yarn. The two blue skeins are very different shades. The leftover skein in the front is pretty much a true blue. The skein in the back has more green to it but it is a really deep vibrant color. Neither one is washed out like the colors in the photo.


And just to keep things interesting, I put the skeins on the end of my coffee table in a patch of sunshine coming through the window in my living room. The purple looks purplish, but all the colors are still washed out.


So then I thought I'd take these little fellows outside to see what shaded daylight would do for the colors. This snap is of them sitting on the hood of the Prodigal's car.


And this is of them sitting on the trunk of my car. Notice how my car doesn't look the green that it actually is.


And lastly, I brought them back in and sat them against a white wall just to see what would happen.


So there you have the saga of the yarn and the camera that can't capture color.

Someone know a good 12 step program?

I need one. I am a full-fledged stashaholic. Seven new additions received this week.


I can't get over how bad the pictures taken with my camera are. It distorts color like nobody's business.

As almost always, this yarn comes from kbrece at Kindred Spirits Yarn.

I have been working on it!

See . . . Five iterations of the lace pattern done.



And as a special treat . . . Horus pointedly ignoring me 'cause I won't let him play with my yarn or my needles.

More stash

The entire back row is superwash merino. The front left is fingering weight and the front right is lace weight. All the yarn is from my favorite supplier, kbrece at Kindred Spirits Yarn.

Just a quick note

The co-worker and her husband loved Abigaile's Afghan. The husband especially liked the colors because he was ready to overdose on pink.

I'm still working on the LSSK lace scarf but rather sporadically. I'm still very much in a reading mood and I seem to have settled on C. J. Cherryh for my author of choice at the moment.

And I've discovered a couple of shows on BBC America that I rather like. As a matter of fact, the first is about to start in about 6 minutes. That would be Waterloo Road. The other is Hex. I'm rather fonder of Waterloo Road than I am of Hex. I missed the very first episode of Hex so I'm a bit lost but that's never really stopped me before.

Anyway, off I go to plug myself into the TV.

LSSK Missy Lace KAL, an experiment

I joined a Yahoo! group the other day and they were just about to begin a knit along. Since I'd finished Abigaile's Afghan sooner than I thought I would, I decided to give the knit along a try. One of the group members designed the pattern and it is for a lace scarf or shawl. There are instructions for making both.

I dug through my stash and didn't have any lace weight yarn that would work with the pattern, so I decided to give it a try with some of the sock weight yarn. I'm using size US 9 needles.

Now, I'm not sure whether it's the camera or my monitor, but the yarn is not blue. It is very obviously purple with just the odd hint of blue here and there. Anyhoo . . . I'm about to start on row 10 of the main pattern.

Abigaile's Afghan, completed but not finished

Abigaile's Afghan, Day 3

One more 'intractable' skein

Acquired from Kreative Kitties Kustom Krafts on eBay.

Abigaile's Afghan, Day 2