In all of my books, and in all of my classes, and in all of my class handouts, I stress choosing highly contrasting colors for Fair Isle. In order to make sure that your yarns have enough contrast to make the colorwork worthwhile, I suggest scanning your yarns and then turning the scan into b/w in order to check the contrast. Like so.
See? You can easily tell the difference between the light and dark colors.
And therefore, there were no nasty surprises when the items were knit.
You'd think I'd remember that, given that it's my own advice, right? Advice, I might add, that I was paid to write, and am paid to teach.
You might also think that I would take these yarns, which look highly contrasting to the naked eye, and scan them before casting on, right?
If I had done that, I might have noticed that there was really very little contrast between those colors.
And I would have had plenty of warning
for this...
I should have listened to myself. Sigh.
(and yes, I will take these examples of What Not To Do to all of my classes. It'll be an excellent object lesson).
