WIP... Swatching for my Shetland Wool Week sweater & stuck on colours?
I've been planning my first fair isle knit where I have to pick colours (instead of knitting from a kit) and I'm stumped because I like all my swatches and don't know which I should go for 😭
A - "the light one" has the best tone contrast between the colour sections (quite proud of this colour selection). I like the bottom half of my swatch where I made the predominant colour natural Shetland sheep wool. I tend to lean toward greens/blues so this feels like a good fit.
B - "moody/retro" when I stitchfiddled these colours, this combo spoke to me the most and also matched the vibe I was going for. But swatching, I feel like I'm forcing the colours to play nicely together. I switched the foreground colours in the bottom half of my swatch to make it more plummy.
C - "purple/green sea" is giving me the moodiness I want, but also somehow feels like I'm knitting up a mermaid tone? This definitely feels like the prettiest swatch as I was knitting it... I didn't plan a beautiful gradient but somehow got one.
Pattern is Keava by Alice Starmore, all yarn is Jamieson's Spindrift.