My third Inka hat (also known as an Inca hat, a Peruvian hat, an earflap hat, or a chulla) is coming along nicely. I should be done in a day or two. I meant to make this one in all natural and neutral colours, but I couldn’t resist playing with splashes of colour. Every time I make this hat, I learn more about colour and how it all works together. I learn from the combinations I love, and also from the combinations I don’t love. I’ve learned that a combination can look fabulous until you put another combination adjacent to it, and suddenly it affects the first combination in an odd way – the balance is thrown off somehow. I’m not sure I understand how it all works, but I am intrigued by the phenomenon.
By the way, that’s my knitting needle case (I love that thing), and in the background you can see my stock pot. That’s because I’m just a little bit off-balance myself. I went to a meeting tonight, and then at 9:20 pm I went out and bought a fresh turkey, which I’m now cooking. The turkey will be cooked at about 1:30 in the morning and I have to be up at 6:00 to get ready for work. I’m doing all this because I want some turkey soup.
Great colours! Again….. a masterpiece