I designed the My Beading Heart Scarf for 2 strands of laceweight yarn, which I originally sampled in Lorna’s Laces Helen’s Lace Purple Club. The idea of my design was to allow closely-toned multi-colored laceweight yarn to mix visually into less distracting, yet ever-interesting color patterns. The idea of the beads was to complement and lend a more structured design element to the otherwise random images produced by the variegated colors of the yarn. Sort of like the ying and yang of design, don’t you think?
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All along though, I had in mind to raid my stash of Jaggerspun Zephyr wool/silk to try out combinations of closely-toned solid colors, too, for subtle yet interesting color play that cannot be achieved by a single solid color alone. For the scarf pictured here, I chose Plum and Mulberry. The beads I chose to enhance the overall effect were Miyuki #2440 Transparent Gray Iris beads. . |
I have lots of other yarn color combos picked out and matching beads, but just not enough time to knit all I want to. So let me know what you try and share pics if you can!