{"id":8429,"date":"2016-02-27T07:23:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hillsyarn.wpengine.com\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2016-02-27T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T13:27:17","slug":"a-new-kind-of-color-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/shop-talk\/a-new-kind-of-color-card\/","title":{"rendered":"A new kind of color card."},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, you likely know how we feel about Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift<\/a>: how perfectly suited it is for colorwork knitting, the vast selection of colors, and my fondness for knitting sweaters with it, in spite of–nay, because of!–its rustic texture.<\/p>\n

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I’ve loved watching our one\u00a0little basket of Shetland Spindrift grow into three over the years, as more and more knitters work with this classic yarn and ask for more and more colors. We are only too happy to oblige!<\/p>\n

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Anne recently ordered a set of Shetland Spindrift mini-skeins, one in each available color. We’re not selling these mini-skeins; rather, they’ll live here at the shop and\u00a0function as a kind of interactive color card.<\/p>\n

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We\u00a0can’t keep all 200+ colors in stock, so we keep the Jamieson’s color card on hand to give you a sense of all that’s available for special order.<\/p>\n

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While the regular color card is a thing of beauty, and very useful indeed, one gets a better sense of any given color when one can see more of it. You may love that heathered green when you see just a little sliver of it, but find that en masse, it’s just a little too yellow for you. The mini-skeins are small, but they’re still bigger than the snippets on the color card, so when you’re picking out a color that we don’t have in stock, ask for the mini-skeins and get a bigger picture before you place your order.<\/p>\n

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The other nice thing about the mini-skeins is that you can move them around, line up the five colors you need for your colorwork tam<\/a> or striped vest and see how they look together.<\/p>\n

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Here’s an example from Kate Davies’ Colours of Shetland<\/em>, a book I often flip through, daydreaming about sweaters like this “Ursula Cardigan.” First I pulled a set of mini-skeins that resemble what’s shown in the pattern, just to see how they relate to one another. From there, I began playing with alternate colorways, making\u00a0a couple\u00a0with a gradient-like trio of\u00a0contrast colors, and many more that my camera didn’t capture.<\/p>\n

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This is a very fun game to play, indeed. Next time you’re planning a colorful project in Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift, let us pull out the mini-skeins so you can play, too!<\/p>\n

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By now, you likely know how we feel about Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift: how perfectly suited it is for colorwork knitting, the vast selection of colors, and my fondness for knitting sweaters with it, in spite of–nay, because of!–its rustic texture. I’ve loved watching our one\u00a0little basket of Shetland Spindrift grow into three over the years, … [more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[310,56,59,309,223,100],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsboroughyarn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}