I love this. I love being able to look at all the colors. My eye tends to linger on the various greens...the greens are my favorites, I suppose it is a good thing that I look so well in green. But there are lots of other lovely colors there. All that possibility. All those wonderful things you could make.
I do have a couple sweater's worth of this stuff in my stash. Some in a bright yellow, brighter even than the one they call Daffodil. And some in a brick red sort of color they called Pottery Red. I've made a sweater or two out of it - it's a nice yarn. Not a luxury yarn but a pretty good workhorse. (It pills a bit more than I consider totally desirable but you can't have everything.)
But the colors. (And the color names! I love the color names.) A big reason why I knit (and why I make quilts) is that I LOVE working with the different colors. I love being able to pull out a sunny yellow in the depths of winter, or make something out of a perfect autumn-maple-leaf red (or a lovely-cold-winter-evening-sky-blue) in the middle of summer when it's hot and humid.
Color makes me happy. Planning projects makes me happy.
I did order some of it...because they have the right colors for this (or at least right, if my monitor is showing them close to true). That's going to be a part of my brother's Christmas gift.
Yes, as the designer says, it has "no functional purpose" (though I could see it working as a sort of talismanic sofa pillow), but I do think he will enjoy it.
(it was that or a knit Dalek. And the Dalek looks like a lot more of a pain to make.)
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It's nice to know I'm not the only person who enjoys just standing in front of the wall o' Jamieson's at the local yarn shop and just soak up all the colors.
I've got a couple yards of summer buttercup yellow fabric that I hang up in January, just pin it to the wall. I bought it one January for no apparent reason except that I enjoyed looking at it so much. I think I got into quilting because of the colors and knitting because of the texture.
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