Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Kathleen Cubley — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:24:07 GMT

The Lift and Separate Sweater is actually an eggplant color, it just doesn't show up in the photo very well. You're right again Stephanie--I do love it! XO

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Kathleen Cubley — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:21:43 GMT

Here's the link to Kathryn's website: www.kathrynalexander.net.

If the sweater you're looking for isn't on the site, email Kathryn at kathalex12@gmail.com.

Hope this helps!

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Sojustask — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:49:48 GMT

Ah Martha, so true about secondaries, but olive and burnt orange look great together. A royal blue looks good on just about every season. Navy's you gotta watch and lighter shades of blue will wash her out or make her look jaundice.

Kathleen, do try knitting a sweater in an eggplant color sometime, I think you will love the results and it will become one of your favorites. Knitpicks carries a good shade of eggplant. The Lift and Separate sweater would be awesome in eggplant. The Banstead Pullover would look great in that color too.

Namaste'

Stephanie/TX

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

MarthaD@6 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:32:19 GMT

The last time I checked all my art books (I taught art for 9 years) the compliment of orange was blue, and the compliment of green was red. Secondary colors always have a primary color as a compliment.

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Kathleen Cubley — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:50:02 GMT

Mamahips: Hi! The wrap sweater is "Lift and Separate" from the book Big Girl Knits.

SoJustAsk: You're right! I'll choose a brick red and make sure it's not close to my face. I like your color suggestions. Thanks.

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

mamahips — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:34:51 GMT

I love your "dull, dreary & drab" but gorgeous wrap cardigan!! (bottom right) Can you please tell me what pattern this is?

Many thanks in anticipation :)

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Sojustask — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:27:32 GMT

Kathleen,

You said: "I was also really inspired by Laura's lesson on how variegated yarn reacts with solid-colored yarn and nicely adds dimension to a sweater in a striping pattern. I can see a colorful sweater in my future! I'm thinking some sort of red variegated with gray and maybe a blue solid. What do you think?"

My friend, you are an Autumn, yet the colors you just chose belong in a winter's palatte. A better choice would be a rich olive with a dash of burnt orange,

or deep red with an orange undertone. Or if olive doesn't thrill you, try a rich russett. Instead of blue, consider an eggplant instead. Your eyes will POP! Your best colors will have a warm feel. You can do gray as long as it has a yellow and not a blue undertone.

Just a suggestion.

Stephanie/TX

re: Bring Color Into Your Knitting!

Carole@5 — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:23:17 GMT

I really like what Laura Bryant had to say about using color. How does it happen that she is wearing what looks like either a black or dark navy sweater without so much as a scarf for accent?