No wonder my knitting looks crazy with the colours. zero swatch,  100% yolo haha.

Excellent content.  I look forward to the next video in this series.

Thankyou so much very helpful and you are a beautiful knitter

This is so interesting Mel. Thanks for these videos

Great video! Thank you so much for sharing.

I’m LOVING this series and I don’t even knit color work.

Your channel has always been such an inspiration for me, and watching your videos has inspired me to start knitting sweaters; I actually started my first color work sweater in September because of you! But I still have so much to learn and this series is really inspiring so far, I’m really looking forward to seeing more of these videos!

My goal for 2023 is to knit a Fair Isle vest. This series of videos is so timely and helpful for me. Thank you for such great content. I have my eye on the Academic Vest too and now I'm excited to swatch!! Just have to choose my colours first and order the yarn.

Very interesting!  Enjoyed all 3 of your videos in this series.  I watched them backwards

Thankyou Mel a wonderful informative video so helpful

This is really great! Very informative. And I personally love the way your yell turned out. For me the biggest challenge is the cash value of collecting enough yarn to create the colorwork I want. Your colorwork stash video addressed this issue nicely too. It really takes time to develop all of these things.

Another great episode, thankyou

Colorwork is such a journey. I could so relate to your Yell process - thinking you nailed it only to have one color take over. It still looks beautiful though - with color there really is no right answer, only what works for you. Radcliffe does a nice job explaining hue, value and saturation, the foundation for color theory, and this has helped me improve with my color choices. The SWW hats are a great opportunity to practice color combinations - usually 3-5 colors and a small project. I think I have 1 winner and two bombs over the years. Thanks for doing this series.

Great timing, I just purchased the Academy Vest by Skeindeer and I need 5 colours. Thanks Mel 🙏🏽

love your no-nonsense but very user-friendly videos! i also like lots of color but have lots to learn abt combining them. i often use that 'trick' where you take a pic of the yarns you want to use together, then edit the pic to show in grayscale, so you can tell if there's enough contrast. i'll try to apply your color-dominance idea next time; i'm almost done with a Sea Glass, total color craziness, but it's made me less hesitant to use more than 3-4 colors in a project.  looking forward to more of this color series 🙂, and i hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving!

Thank you to share your experence. I actually really liked your yell cardigan. The bottom part seemed too difficult for me to knit so I ended up doing a sweater only with the top motive and really love it. Main colour is middle Grey and motives are Light yellow which make a soft look. I love Marie wallin's patterns but rarely use all motives on one sweater, they are too much.

To save a lot of swatching (and hence a fair bit of wool on a limited budget) I use a vector drawing program and as close as I can get digitally to the colours of the yarn range I'm going to be using to work out my Fair Isle designs, colours and motifs. It's a great way of endlessly swapping out colours and shades until you arrive at exactly what you're looking for. And then I swatch to check how well the translation into wool works. I love Marie Wallin's design ideas, but am not so keen on some of her colour, motif and construction choices so often swap them out or tweak the construction.

Excellent! I'm not much of a colorwork knitter but just ordered Shetland Trader 3 and a cone of black J&S for Vair (for some reason, I have a craving for both lace and color - perfect project, right?) Thanks for sharing your wisdom and lessons learned.

Ah this was so helpful, thank you. I've been putting off (aka considering not) swatching for my Bressay and just winging the colorwork and now I fully accept that I should swatch. 🙃I have seen some knitters use a drawing app to draw the motif in the colors as an approximation, but maybe that would miss some important subtleties? Thoughts on that?

What do you suggest for a pullover seamless first time sweater knitter who wants to colorwork yoke. I have done colorwork socks