Calling knitters! Advice wanted!

[pensnest]

I was recently introduced to Posh Yarns. They put fabulous new yarns on sale once a week, and reduce the prices on Mondays, then again on Tuesdays. Knitters, beware! Their stuff is fabulous! I visited on a Tuesday and Could Not Resist these two gorgeous confections of merino and silk.


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Yummmm!

Anyway, I've been looking at what I might do with them, and have come up with three possibilities. I'd like to show off the colours with something that involves short pieces of stocking or garter stitch, I'd like it to be reasonably interesting to do, and of course I'd like it to be a thing of beauty when completed.

This is Gloria Silk, very elegant, probably easy to knit once one gets into the swing. Might get a bit boring, maybe? And I'm not entirely sure how the colours would work. Hmm.

The second possibility is an Entrelac Scarf. I produced one years ago and gave it to, er, someone, and it might be a nice way of displaying the colours, in short little rows. It could look really stunning, in fact.

Not Seeing The Tree For The Leaves might be the best of all, it's hard to tell, but it does look like a lovely pattern. Would not be something I could take along to Knit & Natter, though!

My... inclination, right now, is that the reds and purples would look fabulous in the Tree For The Leaves design, and I might well went to use the orange/cream/lilac for an entrelac scarf of great splendour. Hard to be sure.

I do have a fabulous autumnal selection of yarns and a fabulously complicated pattern to put them into, but at the moment I don't want to get into quite that much intricacy.

Have you thoughts?

Comments

[turlough]

Absolutely stunning colourways, both of them!!

Hmmmm, I think I agree with you that Tree for the Leaves probably would work for the red & purple one. With the caveat that I would probably test first to check that it isn't so vareigated it hides the lovely lace pattern.

I think the orange & cream & lilac would look fantastic in the entrelac pattern, no ifs and buts!

[pensnest]

I have a fatal weakness for pretty skeins, and very often they turn out to have quite short colour changes. Doing a test of the Leaves sounds like a good idea - but I think I'm quite enthusiastic about the entrelac!

[chalcopyrite]

Ooh, the orange/cream/lilac would be beautiful in entrelac.

I feel like the Gloria pattern is too diffuse to really show off the colours? Tree for the Leaves would be very pretty for the red/purples, but yes, that's going to require attention. (I bet you'd get the hang of it, though ... it looks like the leaves are modular.)

[pensnest]

Yeah - the Gloria pattern looks very classy in black - and the thought of that much repetitive knitting in black gives me hives! I think it probably wouldn't show off the colours to best advantage.

[rikes]

Not a knitter but I love having opinions on all the things :P The colours are beautiful, and I am unsurprisingly partial to the red&purple. The leaf pattern is lovely, there's something about the shapes of the leaves and the delicate lace that really appeals to me.

[pensnest]

I agree about the leaf pattern - I like to show off the beauty of the yarn with a bit of stocking stitch, but it's good to have the interest that the lacy parts and leaf shaping provide.

[frausorge]

I have no practical advice, but those are lovely colors, and I have to think the red/purple yarn would look amazing in that Tree For The Leaves wrap.

[pensnest]

I hope it will! Maybe in, uh, a year or so, I shall post proof that it does.