Colour Play

It is back to school for the kids and this grandma misses them.  It is getting harder to have them here for more than an overnite but I would miss it if I could no longer play with them as much.  I am the luckiest grandma in the world. Ah well.  Back to my usual.

I spent a good deal of time knitting on the yellow.  I will be splitting for sleeves at the end of this round so my head is full of all the numbers I need for sleeves and fronts and back.

I am so glad to be knitting this brilliant yellow.  It really is the perfect thing even if my sons think my love of strong yellow makes me look like a bumble bee. Working with it and wearing it does make me feel like a queen so I am good.

I was also feeling a bit unsettled after the kids left.  It seemed like a good time to play with markers.

It is time to sort out just how I want the colour order to be for the Flea sweater.  I have linked to the designers pattern page.  She has several variations of the sweater and I fond it a great help to look at all the many ways knitters have played with colour.  I love them all.  I bought the man's sweater pattern because I might knit one for Keith. I don't need the pattern for my sweater.  I will use the basic design from Anne Budd's Knitter's Handy Books but the colour advice it gives is vital.  

This is my first proposed line up of colours.

I might shift the pink and green to the space where the purple and grey are but I am not sure.  I am going to 'colour swatch' so I can see how I like the layout as the colours shift their small bit and flow down the sweater.

I do not need another fingering weight sweater on my needles.  I already have two ongoing.  I know that responsible me feels I ought to finish one or the other of them before tackling the Flea but irresponsible me is fighting it.  Since it is my knitting, and no one else's, who knows where this will go.  I will be happy either way.