Okay, so IF I decided to buy another skein from Brooks Farm . . . I can’t decide which color combination I like best.

I have this yarn–a worsted weight wool/mohair blend, which is just luscious! It’s their “Duet” in the “Santa Fe” colorway.

I want to blend it with a different “Primero” yarn–a fingering weight kid-mohair that’s got the most unbelievably soft, smooth texture . . . I still can’t believe it’s mohair. The color I bought is beautiful, but it’s basically exactly the same shads as the “Santa Fe,” just different proportion of brown-to-blue. So, I want to mix in a little extra color. But I can’t make up my mind

There’s the “Cloudloft,” which looks like it’s got the same shade of blue duplicated, but also has some purples and greens to add to the mix. Overall, it’s a cooler color theme than the Santa Fe, but since the blue would overlap, it would probably blend really nicely.

Or,

  There’s the “Coral Honeysuckle” a blend of coral pink and yellow. It doesn’t have any of the same colors as the Duet, but they’re both warm colors and would probably coordinate well, as well as being a little unexpected.

So, I’m stumped. Which one to choose? Since the “Duet” is the heavier weight yarn, its color will dominate when I knit both together, so I think that the “Primero” will come across more as an accent than an equal-partner, color-wise.

Any opinions/votes would be appreciated. This yarn is too beautiful to ruin with a bad color combination. (Not to mention too expensive to ruin!)

Our voting will be as follows:

* Use the Duet Santa Fe on its own

* Use the Duet Santa Fe with the Copper River originally purchased

* Use the Duet Santa Fe with the Cloudloft

* Use the Duet Santa Fe with the Coral Honeysuckle

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