Ruby Slippers

No not those ruby slippers ... these.

No beads though.

I found it impossible to find bulky weight feltable yarn in a good range of interesting tertiary colours in Sydney that I could lay my hands on.
And I'm never again buying yarn online without first eyeballing a good actual sample of it in my hands first.
Nope I think as with all materials -unless you are very familiar with it already- you just need to hold it, handle it, look at various colours/gauges/textures together, and under different lights, in order to be completely satisfied.

So after extensive pondering of the Jo Sharp sample cards (the strands are now so ratty I think I need a new set already) I'm going double stranded in Classic DK , which comes in a broad range of interesting muted tertiarys.

In this case- Ebony, Mulberry and Ruby.




Oh, and thanks to those of you who checked out my life outside knitting the other day and left such kind comments. Turns out the url I linked to was an object that I didn't design! how embarrasing! so I thought I'd post a couple of images here of my 'baby' the Golden Falcon and other objects I designed for the Science segment.