blue/purple yarn rant

[frogsrock]

i love blue and purple but i hate shopping for yarn in those colors

 

most of them look dirty, its so annoying!!

 

my favorite purple yarn is pound of love, lavender

 

i've found a few nice ones but most just are icky (its not dye lots, ive looked at a few different dye lots next to each other)

 

anyone else notice this?

[Lawless]

I too love blue & purple!!!..

 

the teals and the magenta's and the frosted varieties of both!..

 

I'm also developing an "urge" to crochet something in a frosty chocolate / caramel colour... though I've hated chocolate (the colour) since the 70's when everything was chocolate, orange & green..

 

 

hmmm...

definitely getting old methinks... my likes /dislikes are blurring ... ? alzheimers?.. maybe...

[kelly g]

I have found this with yellows as well. They are either too bright for me or very dull in color. I combined a soft yellow with butterscotch color and together they are beautiful. I used a softer skein of yarn for one color to make it easier and less bulky.

[darski]

I'm seeing blues that are sort of run of the mill (if such can be said of anything blue) and I am lucky if I see a purple/lavender/mauve that isn't furry.

 

I have been dreaming of making a lavender afghan (Prairie Star, I hear you calling) but I don't think I could find the colours if I went out today to do so.

 

About the yellow. I have a TLC yarn that is really a beautiful yellow - it really is like knitting sunshine. Last week I bought a skein of a different yellow and it has this little itsy-bitsy hint of a green cast to it....it's just there and the colour is not as loving as my sunshine. Just thought it was odd is all. I hope yellows are not going bad.

[mudpie]

I will add to your rant. Purple is one of the most difficult to "coordinate". I was given a lovely purple/blue marle. There wasn't a huge amount of it so I wanted to pair it with another purple. I searched high and low and bid on several auctions on ebay. I ended up with some lovely yarns, but they were all a bit too red, or too blue. I ended up making socks because I never did find just the right purple to pair it with. But they ARE lovely socks.

[perigrine]

It happens in Australia too. I can't find a decent blue or purple in any of the cheaper stuff. Pure wool sometimes comes in something that I like, but to but enough to make evan a small lapghan, it would cost a fortune. One mauve/lavender is too 'blue'..another is too 'pink' and the royal purple is too, um..bright (but works well if you can find matching 'brights)

 

Yellow? I just don't bother. Its all either baby pale yellow or that funny yellow that can look orange (daffodil?). Nothing in between.

[craftconnie1]

for me its pink; too bright or too peachy I can't seem to find a baby pink pastel.

[clocke]

I'm laughing because I went to the store to get some blue yarn for a baby 'ghan and all the blues there looked so weird that I scrapped the idea and did a 'ghan in a completely different color scheme. Glad to know it wasn't just my mind playing tricks.