Playing With Yarn

Fresh Earth

Welcome to Perfect Palette! This is an open-ended series in which I scribble down a color combination that I’m currently madly in love with – a new combo every week.

Fresh Earth is a palette that combines full-of-life brights with two down to earth shades for an unexpected effect. Go ahead and cover up those two left-hand yarn balls. You could imagine just about any brights – some pinks would look lovely. I’m envisioning a magenta and a purple! But instead, you have a shift downward into the sophisticated and serious with the clay and sand, shoving this palette into the Fall category for me. Indeed I have a blanket planned for this Fall in a very similar palette! Stay tuned ❤️

Fresh Earth in Catona – Rust, Antique Mauve, Saffron, Primrose, Green-Yellow, Jade

Fresh Earth in Cotton 8 – 671, 659, 722, 656, 669, 723

I found “Fresh Earth” palette around the web!

@thejungalow on the Instagrams ❤️


Unexpected color palettes at HGTV


Spicy fabric at fabric.com

Sneak peek at my new blanket design “Callie” ❤️


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Welcome to Perfect Palette! This is an open-ended series in which I scribble down a color combination that I’m currently madly in love with – a new combo every week.

Okay you guys, believe it or not, I did not just gather a bunch of mind-blowingly beautiful yarn colors to stare at them, mouth agape. I mean I am doing that. But the reason I’ve curated this lovely group of yarns is for a Hexagon Month pattern!

More on that later.. for now, here is this week’s Perfect Palette:


Fire meets ice – well, sugar really. Fire meets sugar in this this electrifyingly sweet palette. It’s like if you have one foot in summer and one foot in fall – perfect for today, the first day of Autumn!

The yarns pictured are Scheepjes | Catona* and Sweet Treat*.

[Related: Full review of Sweet Treat, including pics of alllllll the rainbowlicious colors!]

I’ve already made some headway on this pattern and the little motifs are coming out so cute. I should clarify.. some are cute. Others are fire-hot! Try this palette if you’re looking for a project that will energize you as you work.


I’ll be combining these two amazing cotton yarns held together in similar but varying shades to create a heathered look. The pattern will be (shocker!) hexagons! Tiny flowers with a fun continuous granny stitch join for your learning pleasure. And it’s going to be a freebie! A little gift for all the love y’all have shown me on my new YouTube channel – if you visit, be sure to subscribe. There are more videos for y’all every week ❤️

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