Click on the 2 pictures and you'll get nice large ones that you can really see. The colors look pretty accurate to me here, but the darker ones are hard to see anyway.
I ordered 2 shades of Rustic (lower left group in top photo). Midnight Tweed, 5th from the bottom, which doesn't show well at all, for a Christmas gift sweater. I ordered Agate, 15th from the bottom, for a Norah Gaughan Ram's Horn Jacket for me. It's in her Knitting Nature book. I also ordered some of the Cotton yarn (right side of top photo) in Latte, 7th from the bottom, for a Norah Gaughan shell from the same book.
I've begun swatching for the Christmas sweater with some of the Rustic I have left from my cardigan, as it's the same yarn in a different color, and for once in my life, I'm using the suggested needle sizes (US 1 & 4) and getting the specified gauge. Here's a link to the pattern I'm planning on using, which is pictured below. There are directions for both adult and children's sizes.
3 comments:
Hi Liana,
Your knitting is beautiful (as is your sewing). My mother lives about an hour and a half away from Bendigo, so we are lucky enough to have lots of hand-knits in their yarn! (My mum is the avid knitter - I'm a sewer). The cotton is terrific - great for summer cardigans, and the wools are excellent (particularly those which are washable). So nice of you to share information about them so widely - I bet that they'd be chuffed!
Liana, thank you for posting the color cards from Bendigo. They have beautiful heathered colors. For a start, I will be ordering the color cards. :)
This sweater will be gorgeous. The colors you chose are perfectly rich. I haven't ventured into the outer-realms of yarn yet--just trying to get used to working with it at all. I think I'll order the cards, too. Thank you for sharing them! It's too bad they don't have a website.
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