I'm not going to get to knit with any of it for ages and ages but who cares? When I do finally get time to work on my clever vest, I'll have all the right yarn for it. Though it turns out that I was able to find such a fabulous variegated match for the semi-solid yarn I was hoarding for said vest that it can be a cardi, and the variegated yarn I thought might be a hat got matched up with a plummy solid and can now be the vest in its place.
Never mind all that, what you really want are pictures, right?
This is what I was working with - the Torte colourway from Twisted Fiber Art:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuiUarhzof1Iqk4LT_Omq9awSnrPmEwoTpvaKcThUkfFRqEJbzXJhRJzDy1BO0dlTpMbaopkIQU7V86BdpoaFmKFk6_tlOt2QvEaoislP3OsFvhtehXFV6R8YlpRlmeGEsI8-o9eHItMk/s320/torte.jpg)
and this is what I got to match it, from The Black Lamb:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfQqrDup_q4_ttCXMhakWquM5HmwniZJY0LLRTGc3dKlvVVxyzPU4zYFDKdIgOjMlqrwH_KmH7w_UsOlhDAFPosRno8HDbS3Hncoar9rUBKnWFUT9L2mGpD9zlPEDpNHmegEhqrlXGSVk/s320/torte+twins.jpg)
The colours don't show as perfectly here as in person but trust me, the brown patches at the bottom of the skeins is as close a match as you could dream of for the Torte. And it's soooo soft! along with everything else I found at The Black Lamb. Of which there was quite a lot, but more on that another day.
This is the Valkyrie colourway from Twisted Fiber Art I've been longing to pair with something solid:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz9PFeGcP_oY8PKHcHmWN6fVTwxXKT_Nbn-WTGdpC3mDMfxia5i0nmSgYVExPLRcLadE0TNitiiHSGpwd9HJLe6lYh92i3IYn_VxM_WgGhiOkrxDU1Z1lyJBSi1437f4ZDGz4BZ250ZFI/s320/duchess+valkyrie.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYXm2s1yppLg71STrGa21Ny0ws1XT5dfUWgIIVBzuE0lCMkqEpHLEg79UqL9UV7o5ZR2KY1gRFY8O3jZOXe4IF7LlIdFgtDB1aTEAPLOA11KQ52SptY1mffmyqVnROBumJFCdJr4AUBTI/s320/elitespun+purple.jpg)
Again, not showing up so well but a perfect match. I was planning to go to another big yarn fest next weekend but now I don't have to, and I suspect it would be rather more sensible financially if I did not.
In other news, I bought two sizes of, um, sock-friendly dpns. And a drop spindle. Heaven help me.
1 comment:
I loves me some Twisted. Good job with the matching!
Oh, and I was so dazzled by the Twisted that I nearly missed the last paragraph. Sock needles AND a drop spindle!!!!!! You're in trouble now, girlfriend.
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