Seasons of Colour

Does everyone go through this? Each season there is a color or small group of colors that kind of sets you afire, that makes you feel just right somehow, so that you want to wear nothing but.

It's not quite like having a favorite color, because the palette rotates quite a lot. For example, I tend to wear groups of colors seasonally - bright, hot colors in summer and cool darker ones in winter. But every so often a season will come in which there's one color that just sticks in my mind.

This fall it's deep dove grey. Stainless steel, Old Navy is calling it. At American Apparel, it's Asphalt. I could wear it every single day. Unfortunately I don't own enough of it to wear it every single day, so I am alternating it with plum and black and a particular shade of blue.

I'm enjoying those, too, but if I had to pick one, there'd be no contest.

It's all I want to knit, it's all I want to put on in the morning. In yarn form, one can have the variations spun right in, so that you knit yourself a garment with your whole season's palette.

I've been making myself knit some other colors, primarily as gifts for other people, but I feel like I'm chomping at some sort of bit to get at that Tortuga you see in the top edge of the photo. Grrrrrrrreeeeyyyyyy.