The yarn in the picture is called ‘Cherry Bonbon,’ which is perfect because it looks so yummy! It is hand-dyed Cordé, by Judi & Co. This company has beautiful hand-dyed yarns in amazing textures. They carry sparkly ribbons, fringed ribbons, a hand-dyed rayon raffia, sequin yarns, and more. They’re all beautiful.
I crocheted with Cordé for my big secret project, which is almost, almost, almost finished. Hurray! I’ve been working on it so much and so long, that I forgot what life was like BP (Before Project).
A decade or so ago, few fashionable people would mix greenish blues and yellowish greens. Three decades ago, I painted a picture in art class with green, blue, and purple high-rises. Hey, all those colors were based on blue, weren’t they? My high school art teacher said, “Normally I wouldn’t recommend using the warm purple with the cool blues and greens…but it seems to work.” As my Mom has said, I was ahead of my time, because nowadays, you find blues, purples, and greens combined all over the place.
The variegated cotton in the photo (Plymouth Yarns Fantasy Naturale color number 9480) combines teal and peacock, both greenish blues, with yellow green and a little tan to rest the eyes. They are colors whose time has come. My eyes love to feast on this yarn, while it waits its turn to be crocheted.
And speaking of great colors, how about our wisteria?! This is my dream front door, surrounded by blooming vines. Someday, oh someday, we will have a big arbor covered with blooming vines in the spring and shading leaves in the summer. Someday.
