Fair Isle Knitting -- Color shading

Now for some shading.  These are colors from Brown Sheep's Cotton Fine line of fingering/DK yarns, a bit heavier than 2-ply Shetland from Jamieson & Smith but much cheaper and one way to practice.
1. Reds: Pinkaboo, Tea Rose and Provincial Rose, plus Cotton Ball for a background
2.  Greens: Peridot, Wild Sage and Dusty Sage, with either Cotton Ball or Milk Chocolate for a background
3.  Purples: Prosperous Plum, Sugar Plum, and Alpine Lilac with either Cotton Ball or Slate Charcoal for a background
4.  Blues: Wolverine Blue, Robin Egg Blue, and New Age Teal with Cotton Ball or Merlot
5.  Yellows:  Banana, Buttercream, and Sunflower Gold with Cotton Ball or Cavern
6.  Oranges: Wild Orange, Milk Chocolate, and Buttercream with Cotton Ball.

There are two ways you can arrange the colors:  Outside rows and middle in either the darkest or lightest color, then rows numbered 2 below in the medium color, and the rows numbered 3 in the third color. 
Buy one skein of each color plus two skeins of the background and work samples of each.  Then work samples using other arrangements.  You'll see how each produces different effects.

1			X	X	X	X
2		X	X			X	X
3	X	X					X	X
X	X			X	X			X	X
3	X	X					X	X
2		X	X			X	X
1			X	X	X	X

Next week I'll give a motif to use in a scarf.
The scarf will also demonstrate something called "steeking" and how to use it.
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