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An experiment in colour blending

22/8/2016

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Earlier this year I won two balls of Knit Picks Chroma Fingering in a design challenge. It isn't a yarn I've used before, and the colours are probably not what I would have chosen myself, but they go very well together. One is a dark grey and the other is a multi in shades of blue/green/grey. 
I do use a lot of fingering weight yarns, but I mostly use either superwash or tightly spun yarns because I'm mainly using them for socks or mittens which get a lot of wear, or for lace patterns which benefit from the definition of a tightly spun yarn. While the Chroma is very soft and squishy, it's also loosely spun and felts easily (excellent for spit-splicing, not so good for socks or anything else that's going to need frequent washing or get robust wear).
I decided to try holding the two yarns together to get something closer to a worsted weight and allow the colours to complement one another in a marled effect. So far so good...
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Check back in a few weeks to see what this is going to become!
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