Mood:  a-ok

I try to watch trends a bit now that I'm dyeing more.  Not because I give a darn about what I wear.  But it takes me a long time to get from design to yarn to finished item and I don't always want to be years behind the trends.  I watched a Quilting Arts show on PBS while babysitting and the guest talked about being on a national color advisory board that is 3 years out.  She showed how colors had evolved over the last few years.  Very interesting.  Pokey asked her if there were any quick hints for us regular people since she is sworn to secrecy about any details.  She said greens and currently purple. 

I taught a knitting class at Wild Purls this weekend to people younger than me.  I found it very interesting the colors they picked out.  Most were some version of pink (and not because it was October either).  One in particular color I loved was pink with a bit of lilac.  I saw the same color in ads this weekend.

I cut a bunch of ads out of the last couple papers and tried to create color boards from the garments shown on younger woman.  Interesting and time consuming.  I plan to use them today to come up with at least one new color way for sock blanks I'm dyeing for Wild Purls.  Daryl in Great Falls showed me a great way she uses to create color ways.  I hope we can have her to Billings to teach the class.  It intrigued me for sure.  I've decided to limit myself to the color ways from this series of design boards for the new color ways and explore it  a couple of ways.  

I learned so much designing colorways for MAWS 2010 Signature Yarns and Roving that I feel I must focus on other colorways more intensely rather than flitting here and there.  Very hard for me since I'm a natural dabbler.  I hope to have some new colorway from this process soon.

I subscribe to Knitting Daily's newsletter.  In today's they were discussing Cheryl Oberle's jacket book.  For each section of the book they had the title and a related quote from a biggie--all of this spoke to me as I'm designing today.  So here are the quotes thanks to Knitting Daily.

Section 1: Explore the Sophistication of Simplicity.