Color Play

Here's a new weaving in progress:


At first, I designed it in red, dark grey, light grey and black:


But I thought it might be too stark and cold a series of colors, so I took some yarns to the SSK, and asked for advice. These are the colors they liked:



Much warmer, eh? A problem though is there are three colors of the same value, and the design needs two light values, and two darks. I thought I could strand yarns together to get the correct values:



The red would be stranded with orange, the gold with a really pale gold, the green with a brown, and the light brown by itself. I think this would have worked, but we'll never know.

I just couldn't pull that particular color trigger, and went to my previous cold (albeit somewhat warmed up) palette. In the sample you see, the red is stranded with orange (a bit warmer) and the medium grey is stranded with lavender (a bit more color), the black is stranded with dark blue, which is probably only noticeable in person. I'm a fan of a few surprises when you see something in real life, as opposed to photos, so that's OK.

But now the women at the SSK are just going to slap me: I so disregarded their advice. Will they ever be willing to weigh in again? Time will tell. Meanwhile, I weave on.