The daffodil image and more details of this competition
are here. These experiments are obviously just for fun. I had two ideas. The first was the one I thought would be most successful, but I've decided I don't like it. The green is a mix of spearmint with primary green (it looks more blue in the photograph than it really is), and the reddish-brown is a mix of natural brown with nutmeg. I'm not fond of the barber-pole effect, particularly with such contrasting colours.
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For the second idea mixes the same mix of green with yellow. The green overpowered the yellow, and it needed much more yellow than I expected. A thick single is plied this with a very thin thread of the reddish brown. I like the look of plied thick/thin, and I like the variegated look of the yellow/green. Much happier with this and I tried knitting and weaving samples.
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