A day, dedicated to colour
Beautiful sunshine today. Inspired by the "Show my your socks" contest (over now) and at all in Socktoberfest-mood, I did this today. No, not washing socks, I'm doing that once in a while. The picture, it's taking a picture of drying clothes.
But enough on socks. It was beach walking today.
Wouldn't this colour combination be great for yarn? Or anything else?
Talking about colours.. I have to go public, I need your help or more advice. I want to knit Eris, the cabled sweater/cardigan, you know.. And I already decided for a type of yarn but cannot make up my mind on which colour to choose.
Tell me what you think.
Problem is: I am usually very much into reds! But I fear I will be afraid to wear it, if it doesn't turn out perfect. I have the feeling browns and greys are more forgiving.
And the browns, chocolate and cinnamon - can there be better Christmas knitting!? On the other hand, I am not so much for earth tones, but I love to wear tweed. The only way I can see myself combining Eris is to jeans or to tweed trousers, skirt or dress. Wouldn't it be too much on brownish colours then? [sigh] Stylists, speak up please.
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I have to root for the red. Such a nice red, not so dark that you couldn't see the cables. Plus, it will make a great holiday sweater in that shade.
Count me in for the red as well. Although I am no stylist it is just the color that jumped out at me as being the best. And as for perfect..people will see the color not some small mistake :)
I am not a perfectionist either.
I enjoy your blog.
Wow, look at all those socks! And a great picture of them, so sunny and colorful.
I'm a red fan, too. Or maybe cinnamon. Not a big fan of the slate color, but that's just me. But if you like red best, you should definitly go with red!
I love the grey, but that's because I am not really a red girl. I think you should make what you love the most!
Your sock picture is beautiful. And I love the beach pictures.
I love the red--do you wear red a lot? I cannot wear grey at all and light colors wash me out so I would go for the red. The chocolate is good BUT like you said what are you going to wear it with? Your trousers have to be a color too, and if all your trousers are brown then will a brown Eris match?
LOVE THE SOCKS!
Look at your fabulous socks! I am inspired. And I also vote red--having had similar anxieties about Rogue, I'll say that a) it's easier to make it turn out well than you think, and b) a small mistake, even in red, won't be that noticeable. And think how cheery it will be against the snow!
Cinnamon, cinnamon!
first of all, that's my favorite spice. And it'd go great with all your red clothes and it'd show the cables very nicely. It's such a shame when you make all that effort knitting gorgeous cables and then they don't show well enough...
Red, no question about it! Eris is lovely - I'm making mine in gray, but that's just because I need a gray cardigan. May be I'll make the sweater later on, and then in some juicy colour!
How fun to see an Icelandic knit blog! Are there more of them? And do you know if there are any Icelandic Lopi web shops or web pages showing the news?
My hubby comes from Iceland, and loves lopi.
Take care
Helene
from Norway
Hi,
I am visiting for the first time! Allison sent me :o)
I think your socks are very impressive :o)
Love your photography and your writing style.
Nice to meet you.
Donna in Wisconsin
The sock picture would make a wonderful postcard! And I love the red! I think that if you're into a certain color it's because you look great in it and feel happy wearing it. It would also warm up darker/more neutral pants and skirts.
I love your sock photo! What fun to have so many pairs of hand knit socks.
I like the red too, of course by now you've already decided. I think 25 pairs of socks are quite alot,so don't go beating yourself up there. I've been knitting socks maybe 3.5 years and have only 6 pairs to show for it, although I did knit 2 more pair of socks for myself, but gave them to my mom, as well as knit her a pair of socks and knit my bf a pair of socks last summer and am making a pair of socks for dbf's son and a pair I knit for sockapalooza 2. So I've knit only 12 over almost 4 years, what's that 3 a year? I also go through sock knitting spurts, sometimes I knit more on socks and sometimes less. I like to keep socks on the needles because they are portable. As soon as I finish the pair of socks for the dbf's son, I will be making another pair of socks for me in black (with multicolor flecks), b/c I don't have any and I really would like some.
Just to pass it on, a friend of mine knit Mariah in the Barn Red. She thought, as well as all of us, that the yarn was more mauve-ey in person than on the site. It was still beautiful. Just a little on the pink side.
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