Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Westknits Mystery Shawl KAL part 1

This is the most perfectly timed Mystery KAL evah!
I was trying to choose which Stephen West shawl to make For Me (Because I’m on a Clockwork that’ll be a gift. It has to stand back for a bit.) and this pops up just as I was unable to pick one of the many…

YAY! Stephen chose for me!

Then I went to KnitNation and actually got to say hello to Stephen West himself (Hi Stephen!) and I actually told him I was making this in teal, the swampcolored green and a solid grey… Then I got home and this RED just popped at me and wanted to be part of it. They’re all quite "stiff" sockyarns, but it’s just the wrap I need. But now I can’t decide which one to leave out!

The red is a Colinette Jitterbug, the “green” and grey from the Yarn Yard and the teal is a Socktopus.

Care to give me your input on what to do? I think I'll be swatching quite a bit for this...

4 comments:

Tricia said...

I would leave the green out - it's a murky colour and the others are sharper, clearer colours if you know what I mean, and I think they would look awesome together.

I met Stephen too, and he was very sweet!

Visa Lisa said...

Oh how differently we see colors... Or the photo doesn't show them right. I find the green Sparkling and in the exact same depth as the red. Right now I can't pry those two apart... But they really go together well all 4 of them.

miastick said...

Tack för kaltips, Lisa! I'm in!
Förstår färgvals-ångest. Jag hade nog skippat den röda eller den ljusblå...
Själv tror jag att jag ska köra med noro sock som randfärger. Möjligen wollmeise knallblå som bas, eller något annat... Får komma hem till stashen och välja.

Visa Lisa said...

Mia: YAY!
The pic may not show it but the red and the swamp green look made for each other! I might take away the teal first, only to trim the whole thing in it, becasue it's quite an awesome quartet this really...