Becca's Blog

Fall '08 Knitty

Wow, there's a ton of patterns in there, and a lot of them are intriguing. L'illo is adorable, and I think Camden is cute, and the cover sweater is pretty cool. Oh, and the Op-art baby blankies are bad-ass--that is some cool design and construction. But the lesson I take from this issue is that I should never again shut down or slam my own design ideas as too goofy or weird. Clearly they are not.

Awesome time-wasting toy for the color-obsessed.

One of my colleagues tipped me off to a new interactive color picker from Adobe, called Kuler. This Flash-based tool (you need Flash 9) lets you experiment with different color combinations based on classic rules, and look at (and vote on) palettes that other users have uploaded. I'll probably work with it a little bit when I finalize the colors for the yoke of my lopi-esque pullover.