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The Sekrit Baby Blanket is almost done, and I'm really liking how it's turning out. The colors, as I said somewhere in a comment to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wordplay before, are:
Tahki (Stacy Charles) "Lovely", in #55 orange
Kollage Yarns "Corntastic", in fire opal
Corntastic, in tigers-eye
Corntastic, in citrine
Corntastic, in pearl
Both the yellow and the cream are less pink than they appear on my screen, at least -- see how rosy the background is behind them in these shots? Conversely, the "fire opal" is quite pink, very salmony, but it blends nicely with the oranges on either side and seems to be a good intermediate shade.
(The folks at Kollage Yarns will apparently not make a color unless they can describe it with a jewel or otherwise [semi] precious-stone name. And yet note the absence of sapphire, emerald, onyx, lapis, and other potentially Very Useful colors. Alas.)
I chose this color scheme because it is sunny and cheerful-looking and I don't believe babies and their accoutrements need to be color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys, etc. In fact, I'm not merely neutral on such color-coding, but actually edging toward opposed -- not all the way opposed, because I don't think there's anything wrong with putting pink stuff on a girl and blue stuff on a boy (especially as they get old enough to be choosing these things themselves), just so this is not to the exclusion of putting blue stuff on the girl and pink stuff on the boy if that's what comes to hand. I mean, really.
Anyway, though, this couple have chosen not to learn what variety of baby they're having until it's here, so the pressure to choose a gender-coded color palette was off. Whew! But if at some point in the future I wanted to make a similar thing in a different color scheme, look what colors are available to me! (This is all based on what I can find in these two brands and with some mid-level googlesearching for similar-weight smooth and durable and ideally machine-washable natural fibers -- cottons, soys, bamboos. I'm trying to see if I can work up a five-color palette in greens, one in purples, one in blues, and what the hell, one in pinks/reds.)
I'm actually the happiest with the greens, I think. Without, of course, knowing anything about that "sublime soy" brand -- like the weight, for example -- or whether it's machine washable (the same page says yes in one place and no in another). And not having had an opportunity to hold those five colors up against one another in the same light and see if they blend as well as I think they would.
The purples, argh. I adore that amethyst color, but I don't like the leap from the ruby to the jasper; I'd rather have a bluer purple in there to make the transition smoother. But I can't find one, alas. The Debbie Bliss Cotton DK color card has good bluey purples at #31 and #37, but it's dark and light, there's no middle ground. Grar. Trying to find something somewhere with a word like "grape" in its name. Should I ever find myself making this blanket in purples, I'll let you know what I end up with.
Here is that color card, by the way:
The blue and the pink, also, hmm. I quite like the blues, although see above re: same light, blending, etc., and also a) I'd like to start with a deeper, more like royal blue (see above re: lapis), and b) I'd like to finish with a super-pale blue rather than white. w/r/t the pinks, I'm kind of generally apprehensive about the deep end of the spectrum (or I would be if I were actually doing this), and again, rather have a super-pale pink rather than white at the end. A better option might be to start with CT garnet, switch to TSC hot pink, switch to Debbie Bliss Cotton DK #44, switch to TSC light pink, switch to white, and abandon the CT coral altogether. Again, if this ever becomes non-hypothetical, I'll let you know. :-)
[eta: Note to self -- the Kollage "Hope" yarns in DK weight appear to be approx. the same weight as the Corntastic line, and to come in different colors. (Alas, it seems "Cornucopia" is about twice as heavy.)]
The Sekrit Baby Blanket is almost done, and I'm really liking how it's turning out. The colors, as I said somewhere in a comment to
wordplay before, are: Tahki (Stacy Charles) "Lovely", in #55 orange Kollage Yarns "Corntastic", in fire opal Corntastic, in tigers-eye Corntastic, in citrine Corntastic, in pearlBoth the yellow and the cream are less pink than they appear on my screen, at least -- see how rosy the background is behind them in these shots? Conversely, the "fire opal" is quite pink, very salmony, but it blends nicely with the oranges on either side and seems to be a good intermediate shade.
(The folks at Kollage Yarns will apparently not make a color unless they can describe it with a jewel or otherwise [semi] precious-stone name. And yet note the absence of sapphire, emerald, onyx, lapis, and other potentially Very Useful colors. Alas.)
I chose this color scheme because it is sunny and cheerful-looking and I don't believe babies and their accoutrements need to be color-coded pink for girls and blue for boys, etc. In fact, I'm not merely neutral on such color-coding, but actually edging toward opposed -- not all the way opposed, because I don't think there's anything wrong with putting pink stuff on a girl and blue stuff on a boy (especially as they get old enough to be choosing these things themselves), just so this is not to the exclusion of putting blue stuff on the girl and pink stuff on the boy if that's what comes to hand. I mean, really.
Anyway, though, this couple have chosen not to learn what variety of baby they're having until it's here, so the pressure to choose a gender-coded color palette was off. Whew! But if at some point in the future I wanted to make a similar thing in a different color scheme, look what colors are available to me! (This is all based on what I can find in these two brands and with some mid-level googlesearching for similar-weight smooth and durable and ideally machine-washable natural fibers -- cottons, soys, bamboos. I'm trying to see if I can work up a five-color palette in greens, one in purples, one in blues, and what the hell, one in pinks/reds.)
| greens | purples | blues | pinks |
 sublime soy "nettle" |
 CT amethyst |
 TSC turquoise 58 |
 CT coral |
 TSC grass green 38 |
 CT ruby |
 CT turquoise |
 TSC hot pink 53 |
 CT peridot |
 CT jasper |
 CT topaz |
 CT rose quartz |
 sublime soy "cucumber" |
 TSC lavender 52 |
 TSC light blue 06 |
 TSC light pink 08 |
 TSC mint green 05 |
 sirdar snuggly "little lilac" |
 TSC white 01 |
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I'm actually the happiest with the greens, I think. Without, of course, knowing anything about that "sublime soy" brand -- like the weight, for example -- or whether it's machine washable (the same page says yes in one place and no in another). And not having had an opportunity to hold those five colors up against one another in the same light and see if they blend as well as I think they would.
The purples, argh. I adore that amethyst color, but I don't like the leap from the ruby to the jasper; I'd rather have a bluer purple in there to make the transition smoother. But I can't find one, alas. The Debbie Bliss Cotton DK color card has good bluey purples at #31 and #37, but it's dark and light, there's no middle ground. Grar. Trying to find something somewhere with a word like "grape" in its name. Should I ever find myself making this blanket in purples, I'll let you know what I end up with.
Here is that color card, by the way:
The blue and the pink, also, hmm. I quite like the blues, although see above re: same light, blending, etc., and also a) I'd like to start with a deeper, more like royal blue (see above re: lapis), and b) I'd like to finish with a super-pale blue rather than white. w/r/t the pinks, I'm kind of generally apprehensive about the deep end of the spectrum (or I would be if I were actually doing this), and again, rather have a super-pale pink rather than white at the end. A better option might be to start with CT garnet, switch to TSC hot pink, switch to Debbie Bliss Cotton DK #44, switch to TSC light pink, switch to white, and abandon the CT coral altogether. Again, if this ever becomes non-hypothetical, I'll let you know. :-)
[eta: Note to self -- the Kollage "Hope" yarns in DK weight appear to be approx. the same weight as the Corntastic line, and to come in different colors. (Alas, it seems "Cornucopia" is about twice as heavy.)]
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