Fall Colours

Recently I read this quip on Facebook: "I love fall; it's my favourite week of the year."  😉

Around these parts this year, one might even say, "my favourite day of the year" -- it's been that cold and snowy!

And now we're on the edge of October -- thirty-one days of guessing what the weather will be like, trying to get those last-minute preparations for winter finished (I'm calling my car dealership for a put-on-the-snow-tires appointment), and at the same time, in the throes of planning Thanksgiving, all the while being reminded that "the Holiday Season" (the triple play of Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanza) will be upon us before we know it.

It's time to STOP.

Take a minute to pause, breathe, look out the window or -- better yet -- take a walk in the beauty around us, to really see and appreciate the colours of the changing seasons (assuming, of course, Gentle Readers, that you live in a place where seasons really do change...with apologies to those of you who don't live in such places).

Fields near Mirror, Alberta

From the walk around Cranna Lake, Lacombe, Alberta

View from the writer's back yard, Mirror, Alberta

Ahhhhhh....

Now I ask you, where can you find such colours year 'round?

In yarn, that's where!

Say what?!

It so happens that when yarn is created -- particularly when it contains some natural fibres such as wool or alpaca or cotton -- it can be dyed to recreate the amazing colours and textures of a particular season of the year.

Not only is this the time of year when a knitter or crocheter's mind turns to thoughts of winter nesting and the creation of gifts for the up-coming season, but it's also the time of year that many seek to work in colours evoking the golds, reds, browns and blues of autumn.

These shades and tints are a bit dustier, deeper, more muted that those found in the fresh colours of  the new growth of spring; the rich, deep colours of summer; or the crisp clear neutrals and blues of winter.

It's autumn.

This week for our Super Special we offer you those muted, textured autumnal colours in a yarn aptly named for the season...

Berroco Colora

30% Wool

70% Acrylic

50 Grams = 140 metres (153 yards)

Regular Price: $12.00

75% Off!

Sale Price: $3.00

Gauge/Tension: (DK verging on worsted weight)

14-21 stitches to 4"

on a 4.00 mm (US 6) knitting needle

or 5 mm (US "H") crochet hook

What to make?  Here are a few suggestions: hats, toques, scarves, sweaters...you get the idea!  This yarn is versatile!  Even with its texture it has decent stitch definition for cables -- to whit, THIS HAT!  (And it took a bit less than one ball!)

What's not to like?

So...make this fall 'colour-fall' and drop by The Shop for some Colora this week because...when it's gone, it's gone!

*Written by Margaret, who is thankful she lives in a land of autumn colours...sometimes reflected in her knitting!