One thing that I really haven't learned is what colour the thing will appear to be overall. Which colours will absolutely catch the eye? I know that there is some colour theory and I was trying to work through the nice book by Margaret Radcliffe "The Essential Guide to Colour Knitting Techniques", but somehow the reality of a combination of colours is a surprise. There isn't actually all that much in the way of blue-grey and orange in the swatch I made with palette yarn. But, to me, it looks like there is an awful lot. And there is some quite nice straw colour going on, which gets turned into a not-nice orange when it's put near the orange-y ones or the red. The blue was a huge surprise. I think it was called "wallaby". On screen, it looked like a nice transition from green to grey. In reality it is horrible in combination with either. Even the red, which I like very well, gets muddied and dragged down by the combination with the straws and oranges.
The photograph doesn't quite communicate what colour(s) the swatch appears to be. Somehow it isn't a combination of the colours I got. They are changed dramatically by their neighbours, and not just by their next-door neighbours. The flavour of the whole neighbourhood is important.
That was a learning experience, too.
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