KF's camaïeu enlightenment

Buffy, this might be one answer to the camaïeu puzzle. Kaffe Fassett's instructions for Persian Poppy patterns (Glorious Knits) says to make "magic ball" colorways, where you tie short random lengths of yarn together in a not-so-random fashion:

     The only rule I use is to go from one colour to the nearest value to it, working, say, from darkest grey to medium to light, and on to sky blue or whatever. Sometimes you might like great jumps in contrast so experiment with many different colors and textures.


The Jug Coat background squares will be constructed (somewhat) this way. I am pretty sure that the squares will look much better from a distance where the eye can blend the colors. I might find them a little disconserting from my close-up viewpoint. But here KF has encouraging words:

     Even the most brilliant and professional garments can look like 'nothing on earth' while they are growing, and many would-be designers crumble at the half-way stage...Colours can be too bright or too dull...It can all be very harrowing! So we all need the courage to soldier on....


I'll hold that thought as I cast on.