WildFlowers and Warmth

I like in-between season colors, like the ones used in this project.

Not quite pastel, but not quite dark....I love almost every single colorway in Wool Clasica, a slightly soft single ply yarn by Manos del Uruguay.

This is by far, my most favorite effeminate color way done by any yarn company, it's called "Wildflowers".

I'm not the greatest photographer, and this yarn is definitely something you need to see for yourself, in natural light. I don't care what type of camera or night time/indoor setup you have, but if this yarn was spun and dyed in the rustic South American sunlight, do the yarn some justice and not only take pictures of it, but work/knit/crochet with it on a sunny, bright day.



Two pictures above, done with a slightly different backdrop, and during different times of day...Personally, I like both of them. The left one brings out the Wildflowers yarn, and the right one brings out the contrast in the Lilac Manos...

Working with what is available spans all sorts of creativity. I wanted lace, but didnt have any awesome laceweight yarn. I wanted color, but I'm getting awfully tired of commercially dyed variegated yarns, I wanted something not too heavy, but I only had an Aran-Bulky weight yarn in my stash. So, I came up with this scarf that is almost a shawlette.

And now I have tons of tiny left overs. Enough leftovers and two skeins of Cornflower by Manos, to make this:



It's a brimmed tam pattern I'm working on. This is the first rough draft. I need to try and come up with one in a more easily accessible yarn as well. The hat will have embellishments at the trim, center crown, and random free-form whipstitch type designs using the scraps from the wildflowers shawl. I'm hoping to eventually publish the pattern as a free one through this site and Ravelry.

And now....What to do with this?



Obvious answer: Mitts or Gloves. I have one skein of Rosin and one skein of Camel left, and I don't think they would make very great mitts for someone that uses their hands all day....But I need to make them, and soon, cus last year's gloves are all beat up, and its 18 degrees tonight.