Color Scheme in Yarn Time

In the travel of life I go in search of the yarn for each project I am working on.  I find that the decision to choose the color to make the project comes from all around me.  At this point, I have taken to choosing the types of yarns that can be easily found.  The colors tend to be the ones I like.  As I knit, the pleasure of what I am handling is important. 

The hard part in the project is seeing how the colors will go together and bring out the meaning behind the color choices.  I find that the search for a particular color takes time and energy.  Once I have chosen the color scheme of the project, the real work of finding that color in the type of yarn that I am working it.  Than it becomes the time to search yarn stores for that color.  It is often a search for a needle in a hay stack.  Alot of my time is spent on this task.  It gets me out in the world of yarn shops and other such stores.  I find that I am not alone in the adventure of looking for a particular type of yarn for a particular project.

Thoes knitters that have chosen what they are going to make and than reach out into the universe of knitting shops or sections of knitting material wander the shops till they find what they are looking for.  The body language is the same in all of them.  They take little notice of the world at large as their thought processes are aimed at the job at hand.  I'm sure that I am no different than the rest.  It is with a glancing eye that I notice the other customers of the yarn.  It is only recently that I have taken to noticing the other people that buy yarn.  Each of them had brought with them something that would indicate what color yarn they were looking for.  As I looked at what other buyers were carrying I took notice that they were doing what I was doing.  As I look for a particular color I bring with me into the store an example of the color of what I am looking for.

As I search around the aisles, like the rest I tend to move slowly.  Time tends to disappear as I wander along checking for that paarticular color that I am looking for.  Once I have what I want I make my way out again.  I have been known to get lost in such an adventure for four hours and more.  It often becomes an adventure that brings me such pleasure.  And as I move foward to new projects, I find that I do it often and tend to travel further to find what I am looking for.