Vivid colors are the biggest reason I continue to knit. They are also probably the only reason I enjoy selling knitted items at craft shows.

Best Use of Vivid Colors

Early on in my knitting, I wasn’t very good at designing knitted items that incorporated colors successfully.  After a lot of trial and error, I finally chanced upon ways that worked.  And allowed me to use the splendid colors I so enjoyed.

Many of my most successful designs have mixed wildly vibrant colors. I really only have two rules for mixing crazy colors:

1. Use a stitch pattern or design that breaks up pooling and striping of multi-color yarns.
2. Try to keep the value and saturation constant in your most colorful yarns, except when introducing either a “kicker” color or a duller, background/blending color.

I have also found that there are some colors that seem to blend with most of the lively colors I use.  Green/Gray Antique Gold seem to be good background/blending colors in a design.

My current knitting project uses all the successful rules of blending vivid colors.  Great stitch pattern the gently blends the colors without making them muddy.  Good solid vivid colors with a brighter kicker color of light blue and a blending color of yellowish/gold.

Here are some of the other project I find use color well.

Current Knitting

I did re-pick up and make some progress on Fox Paws.

Part of the “progress” I made since picking this up again was to rip back three rows and even with that back-pedaling, I was able to finish another repeat.

I also started another version of Sports shorts by Stephen West.

This one will be more like Splongs instead of Sports.  The legs will be full-length…maybe. So far, I’ve just made it up to the short-row section to make room for the ass.