Yarn me up, Scotty!

What colours did I decide on? As I've said, I chose the colours based on what was available at the shop in the brand I was interested in that might make the effects I wanted while going reasonably well with the other colours. I didn't sit up and think, "I'd really go for a green and pink sweater". That's what I'm getting, though....

That's what the green looks like. There are two pictures because there are two shades of green. However, they are very close. That's what I wanted. I wanted colours that would flow seamlessly from one to another. In the SOMD (that's sweater of my dreams, you know), many, many colours flow seamlessly one to another. In the SOTRTIMLYS (that's the sweater of the reality that is my local yarn store), we have two greens. And we're grateful for them.

The darker green is called Fir Green and the lighter one is called Sage. Those aren't crazy names. That's a little bit of foreshadowing for you.

The pinks are very good at blending, especially in natural light (which is how I photographed them). There are three of them, which pleases me because I wanted to be able to try different numbers of rows of each and three is the bare minimum to enable such experimentation.

The three pinks have names mostly buried in fantasy. The middle one is called Red Granite, which I grant you isn't as fantastic as all that. Granite is pink, and so is this yarn. And maybe they in the business of calling rocks things call pink granite red granite. I don't know. I just know that if I were, say, mail-ordering this yarn and it was called Red Granite, I might be a little surprised when a definitely pink yarn came in the box. That's the lesson.

The darkest pink is called Red BWO. Don't know what the BWO is about, but it's not red, either. Maybe the BWO means "but without orange". Doesn't make sense, but neither does calling pink yarns red.

The palest of the pinks is called Copper. Sure, very clean, very new copper is a different colour than your average penny. It's not the colour of this yarn, though. In the eighties, this yarn would have been called "dusty rose" without shame. Maybe even "puce". But today, it's called copper and no-one is suing anyone for false advertising.

These two colourways, I think, end up stealing the show on the sweater. There are other colours involved, but to me, it looks like a pink and green sweater. I don't mind.