On a side note, something I have been pondering of late.

I am discovering that I truly have more of a love for tone on tone skeins as opposed to contrasting, loud colorways. I have a real affinity for shades that have a united hue, like a skein with five shades of pink, as opposed to a skein with pink, purple, orange, and green. I am a bit more variegated with my roving, but I am thinking of adopting semisolids and single-color-multi-shaded yarn as my signature, and I'll leave the contrasting work to other dyers.

So many handpainted yarns look beautiful in the skein but clash or go muddy when worked up, and I really think I am leaning strongly towards yarns that a bit more harmonious. I love beautiful yarns but I like to show off my stitches more than the colors, and stronger colorways can compete with many stitch patterns and make them look busy or lost, and I really want my handpainted yarn to highlight the work more than dominate it. So I am contemplating making an executive decision and keeping the things out of my dyepot beautifully colored, but more subtle tonal work and see how that works out in terms of sales.

Anyone have any thoughts up or down with that? I know what I think of my own work, but I am not the one buying it :)