Project Spectrum 5: The Basics

A Gray Day becomes A Dark & Stormy Night

I have some yarn in shades of blue for Margene in case she wants to start Knitting the Weather, or something, next month… or sometime. I wanted to add some shades of gray before sending it, though, since both Utah and Wisconsin have their share of gray winter days.

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This fit in nicely with the Project Spectrum/November:Neutral dyeing.

I made gray; but, because I still underestimate the potency of black in the dye pot, as established yesterday, what I intended as representation of A Gray Day turned into A Dark & Stormy Night.

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This is the yarn I declared my love for yesterday. The yarn that I would marry.

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Did you do that? It always makes me laugh and think of my sisters, especially Sharon — she seemed to do it most.

Me: I love *that* — which could be anything, or maybe not even a thing… the more ridiculous whatever it is, the better.

Sharon: Do you want to marry it?

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Yes, I damn freakin' do!

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What is it about this yarn?? I guess with the absence of color, it's all about shade and value, texture and sheen, complexity and layering. My boring, neutral, black/gray yarn… It just takes my breath away!

I'll be soon heading back to make A Gray Day.


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9 thoughts on “A Gray Day becomes A Dark & Stormy Night

  1. It could be today’s sky! It’s so blustery and freaking off and on gray and, while I could leave this weather behind, your yarn is to.dye.for! With yarn that gorgeous I may just wish for gray skies all year (not really)…amost.

  2. Given you take stunning B&W photos, I’m not at all surprised by your choice of yarn ‘to marry’. ;^)

  3. The depth of different shades of grey are appealing. That should be knit into something very warm.

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