Summer yarn sales are everywhere right now. It is time to move the merchandise from the summer line to the fall and winter yarns. And therein is the problem: The yarn industry is looking further down the road than you are. Now it is time to learn how to see down that same road.
Lest this sounds like a completely foreign language, consider any fashion show that you may have seen. Whether it is in a high-end restaurant or it is just a short part of an "Oprah" show, there is a thread of consistency. Designers are presenting fashions in the colors that will be popular and trendy for the year ahead. In other words, the "hip" colors for Spring/Summer 2005 have already been determined. This isn't just a wild guess. These colors are carefully planned out. Yarn manufacturers know a hand knitted garment takes some time so they are easily a full year ahead of what is on the market. (As a side note, if you want to decorate your living room, check out yarn colors - they are the best prediction of the colors that will be timely.)
So a yarn sale is a true buyer beware. You may go into a yarn store and find a wonderful skein of yarn. It could be a lovely silk/cotton blend in an acceptable color to you. It could have been a skein that once sold for $15-20.00 each marked down to $3.00 a skein. For the basic colors of white, black or another standard, this is great - but of course, those aren't the skeins on sale. It is the colors that are on sale.
A sweater takes a long time to make. In the busy schedule of today's women (and men for that matter) the commitment to make a sweater or even a sleeveless shell is a big commitment. We just don't have enough time to spare. But what if that color is one that is so "last year's" that you don't ever want to wear it.
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