Another diversion

I recently got a knitpicks catalogue (does anyone know how to make them stop sending dead trees at me?) and, I have to admit, I usually find their stuff oddly unappealing. Don't know why. Just do.

But this time, they've been bitten (like me) properly by the fair isle bug and there is a whole sweater sitting there. And it's not terribly, terribly ugly. It's not to my taste, I'll admit, but it will be to plenty of people's.

It reminded me that I still haven't told the story of my first attempt (last spring) to get a good combination of yarn, online, through WEBS (and therefore of valley yarn). I'll do the telling properly some other time, but I thought I'd say that I did learn that I don't want to try to figure out colours online. That's a mug's game. I can order colours that someone else has chosen and shown look well together. I can order colours that are different and therefore have a reasonable chance of playing nicely together. I cannot expect to find success through ordering close colours and hoping that they will flow. No chance. A lesson well learned, I think.