Category: intarsia

A Geek Plans Her Color Work Knits

Have you ever designed an intarsia or fair isle design, ordered your yarn online and discovered that the colors were either a) hideous, b) didn’t match, c) too girly for the man in your life, or d) all of the above? If you have, let me say welcome to the world of the online LYS. If you haven’t, either you don’t order online or you are incredibly lucky.

Let’s go ahead and establish that I am not a lucky knitter. In fact, I would describe myself as the person who experiences the worst that the knitting world can offer (frequently all at the same time). Yes, I have ordered what I thought was a lovely pale pink yarn only to discover that the delicate pink was best described as pepto-bismol

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