Sock Yarn Crazy!

[flybystardancer]

I'm going sock yarn crazy! I keep wanting to buy more! And it doesn't help that Knitty published an article encouraging people to buy/use hand-painted yarns, including going to people who will custom-dye the yarn. It mentions Mama-E being a very good person to go to for custom dyes. Now I've got several ideas for custom-dyed sock yarn in my head! So I'm going to detail them out here so I can wait until I've got time and money to buy them and still have my ideas!

1. Self-striping, school colors. Primarily maroon, but with some white, and then a little bit of charcoal grey to accent them. Leave actual proportions up to dyer.

2. Self-striping, Avatar cycle colors. Roughly equal amounts of each color. Yellow for air (shade of Aang's clothes); blue for water (shade of Katara's dress); green for earth (shade Toph uses, noticing a pattern?); red for fire (shade used on Fire Nation uniforms). Stripes in the order of the Avatar Cycle.

3. Self-striping, Autobot/Decepticon colors. The red and purple shades used in the insignias. Large, roughly equal stripes. Maybe thin black stripes between the two.

...And that's all I have. So far...

Comments

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

There are such sexy yarn out there... dangit, I need to leard to knit!

[ravenclaw-devi.livejournal.com]

*yarns, even

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

I think you really should give it another chance. For one thing, there's a ton of really good websites and really helpful yarn store owners who would gladly help you out. I think I still have a quick how-to that I did up for my cousin when she wanted to learn to knit that I could send to you.

*snugs*