This week I looked at the palette I was knitting with and knew it would make a fun set of ink swatches. My regrets are that I don’t have the perfect butter yellow, or that light almost pea green.
But I muddled through and selected:
- Robert Oster Green Olive
- J. Herbin Vert Olive
- PenBBS #219 – Watermelon Green
- Colorverse Alpha Centauri
What other inks should I include?
Never mind the inks, what are you knitting? And what’s the yarn?
I’m working on pieces for a chicken footstool for The City Girl Farm. It’s handspun by one of the other artists. (https://thecitygirlfarm.com/)
I only have two yellow inks, DeAtramentis Pearlescent Amber Yellow Gold is a great buttery yellow, without the leaning toward orange. Kyo No Oto Yama buki iro is a shading ink that straddles yellow, green, and brown to my eyes. Not recommended to represent butter then.
How about Taccia Uguisi for that dark olive green? And J Herbin Ambre de Birmanie for that butter yellow plus Robert Oster Yellow Sunset for the more golden tones.