There is a lovely rainbow jumper in Simply Knitting 181, knitted with blocks. I decided to knit it for my daughter, omitting the blocks which I didn't think were necessary. I thought the rainbow stripes were in soft shades: red, orange and yellow in spring shades, with a clear turquoise and soft lavender.
Hah! It's not turquoise at all but emerald green and the lavender is dark purple. How can they get the colours so WRONG in a magazine? One could accuse the lighting of altering the shades but the colours on the wool website were exactly the same: much lighter than they actually are in real life.
I just honestly could not be bothered to send the wool back, although I should have done as it isn't very nice to knit with. It's fuzzy and the stitches split and tear. I'm seriously going to be hating it by the time I'm done. The yarn, in case you want to avoid it, is King Cole's Riot DK and the shade that is so hopelessly wrong is called Chameleon.
This is what it looks like as a (short) scarf:
I've also started knitting the jersey but fear I may only finish it next winter as I'm mighty bored. I've also noticed, to my despair, that the ribbed edge is curling and nothing I do will flatten it. I foresee a very annoying jersey that my daughter may not want to wear (the wool is quite scratchy and she's a delicate flower, like me!)
On the Simply Knitting Facebook page is an image of the jersey as it appears in their magazine. You can see straight away that the colours are different. There is NO yellow in the image above (taken in harsh February daylight) and the green and turquoise are miles apart. Yet this is the shade called Chameleon, exactly as I bought it.
Why not buy your wool from a shop where you can see the colours, you might ask.
To which I would answer: I live in central London. WHAT shop??
