It's fitting that Jared Flood announced his new yarn, Loft, the day after Halloween, because the man obviously never sleeps. Have you seen how much he's accomplished? Do you think he's cloned himself like Calvin did with his Duplicator?

And I'm trying to be so good, rationing my yarn purchases. I do not need more yarn. I do not need more yarn. But I have a weakness for fingering weight yarn in plump wool (thus my current obsession with Quince & Co Tern). 

So, I'm holding off temptation by living vicariously through little digital colour images of Loft. I posted a new article on Color Theory, Part II of a series. This one is about some basic color relationships. And Loft is a perfect way to illustrate a few of them. 

I noticed that the Knitting Daily email included some talk about colorwork because of their new emag ColorKnits, so I've been playing around with some palettes in the chartmaker. You can now save a chart as a copy, which is awesome, thank you Charles. So after you work very very hard on that Fair Isle chart or whatever, save it. Then open it again, give it a new name, and click Save as copy. Then change your colors for a brand new chart. 

I also decided to write a few little articles on color theory (hey, why waste that fine arts' education, right?). Check out the first one, Color Theory Basics: Part I.

Here are a few of the fair isle charts I was playing with. A new palette changes everything:

Call me a wet blanket, but I love the climate of the Pacific Northwest in the fall. Forecast calls for: mist, frost and a little rain. The colours (or colors, for most of you) are shimmering greys, greens, mauves, blues, and when the leaves start to turn, it's pretty fantastic.