Finally!

In news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, LizardGumbo purred:

Congrats on the finish. Interesting story behind it, too.

LizardGumbo ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I am happy you have been able to finish it. I think it is lovely and do appreciate the work put into it lol

My husband hated to be asked about clothes or needlework. He was smart enough to listen to other people making comments on the needlework and remember to apply that the next time. It was quite clear he didn't know what he was looking at, or talking about lol

Remember, above all, there is not much satisfaction in completing something YOU don't care for.

Elizabeth

Funny enough, I did actually think about doing a version in greens and blues (and possibly one in purples), but decided I'd leave that up to the creativity of the stitcher, if she were so inclined.

I hang out on a Mirabilia board where they have all sorts of fabulous color conversions posted for Mirabilia's patterns as well as Lavender & Lace's. I think it's a neat idea, really, and some of those ladies are truly talented in their own right with the things they think up to do to the patterns.

Elizabeth

You forced me to go to Hobby Lobby to think about this.

Generally, I like silver with blue/white and copper with green, probably silver with purple, but I'd rather see opalescent white.

With a light green/dark blue fading combination, I'm thinking snow white with opalescent blending filament.

Well, the trick to that one is you do the whole thing in 1 "shade" of Waterlilies, then you flip the pattern upside down and backward, then stitch it again in the second "shade" of Waterlilies, starting on the fabric where you did originally with the first color. (Yes, I know, I'm a mistress of clarity here.)

Forms an interlocking pattern, sorta kinda. It's a quick stitch. I hope to be done in a week or 2, so I can show instead of tell.

I can see that! They all sound great.

Nah, that would be black and 1 shade of gray!!!! LOL

Joan

Had a sales person tell me quite seriously that black comes in three tones: red, blue, and brown.

Of course, the jacket I already had was red black and the pants I wanted to buy were brown black. *sigh*

Elizabeth

Thank goodness I'm colour blind and don't have to worry too much about the nuances of colour. My wife insists on going with me if I go shopping for clothes - and I was in trouble in the RAF when I once went on parade wearing a red tie instead of a black one.

I don't know whether it's official that black comes in three shades. But I do know for sure that if you try to match up two shades of black, at two different times, it's extremely difficult and quite often impossible.

Try to put a different dye lot of black knitting yarn in the middle of the back of a sweater and you'll see in a minute what I mean, so the salesgirl was on target. It isn't always obvious until you put them together under a good light.

Lucille

I know that in printing, there's definitely more than one black. The preferred one is "rich black", which is additive to include all the colors, if I understand correctly. It's recommended to use "rich black" so that all the blacks match, especially if combining multiple files on a printed page. (For example, advertising from multiple sources, when placed on the same page.)

sue (I don't actually know much...just enough to be dangerous)

-- Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen The Magazine of Folk and World Music

What's the point of that? At least one of them will change again after you run them through the washer and dryer.

I wasn't saying you should deliberately put a different color into the center of something. I was trying to point out that the difference will be obvious if you should do that by accident. As me how I know that ??? lol

I know that black almost always loses some dye when it's washed or dry cleaned and I always dry cleaned or washed both pieces together.

Lucille

Lucille wrote: As me how I know that ???

The same way that I know white isn't white.

The yarn all looked the same under the fluorescent lights in the store. After I'd been knitting for a while, I took it out into daylight and ... ack! ... some was white and some was cream.

I believe you! one reason I rarely wear black tops, they never match the black jeans.

Cheryl