If Scotsmen were stubborn about anything — and, in fact, they tended to be stubborn about quite number of things, truth be known — it was the virtues of oatmeal ‘parritch’ for breakfast.
Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.
— Claire, Dragonfly In Amber
‘Every fairy tale needs a good Old Fashioned Villain.’
It seems simple, just black, right? But look deeper, there’s some grey, a bit of cream, even some sharp red hues that move toward a cerise. That’s because an Old Fashioned Villain isn’t as simple as one might think. Perfect for your favorite Consulting Knitter.
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Straighten Your Knocker brings all of the rich, masculine colors of the portal into Sherlock’s world together into one beautiful colorway.
Deep browns, bronze yellows, black and a hint of scarlet; all wrapped up in a rich palette that would please any gift recipient who only wants “brown” (while also satisfying the knitting partner who wants a bit more excitement!)
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Brienne hails from Tarth, the “Sapphire Isle,” and this color represents the rich greens of the island and the blue of the surrounding seas.
“To prevent Brienne of Tarth from being raped, Ser Jaime Lannister misleads the Brave Companions into believing that Tarth is known as the Sapphire Isle because of an abundance of gemstones. In actuality, the name comes from the color of its waters.” — A Wiki Of Ice And Fire
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Everybody into the pool? I have to struggle to keep all of my colorways from being different shades of blue, I love the color so much! What I particularly love about THIS blue colorway, Bristol South Pool, is that it’s so changeable. Nice blue, nice aqua, and they all swim nicely with NO HORSEPLAY.
This color ALSO nicely doubles as Loch Ness, one of our Caledonian Colors from our No Spoilers collection!
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Lyanna’s abduction by Rhaegar Targaryn (who had earlier rebuffed his wife, Elia Martell, at a tournament at Harrenhal to present a blue winter rose laurel to Lyanna) sets the stage for the entire saga of A Song of Ice And Fire, and may provide the plot point upon which the drama concludes (rumors abound online…)
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Perhaps the most beautiful, at least to me, of our Night palette, Night Music is a symphony of Blue, violet, green and sharp yellow with just a touch of magenta. Running through this color, as through all our Night colors, is the inevitable trail of black.
Night makes every color more mysterious.
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In the books the Targeryens are a family known for their silver-blonde hair and purple eyes.
This color actually will resonate more with the readers of the books than the HBO viewers, but it allows us to have a beautiful purple color (without resorting to the particular shade of Joffrey’s face at the “Purple Wedding”)
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Dynastic marriages aren’t love matches, they’re contracts. When Robb Stark broke his contract with Walder Frey of the Twin Towers and marries Talisa, the stage is set for a massacre. By the time the check comes, everyone has either been killed, or has killed someone. Good times.
But is the Red Wedding solely the work of the Freys?
“The Lannisters send their regards.” ―Roose Bolton
“Explain to me why is it more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.“―Tywin Lannister
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Glenn Rhee is a faded red (for his ubiquitous baseball cap) and a deep black (for his beautiful hair) mixed in a dependably repeating color, it will either stripe or pool, depending on how it’s worked up.
Glen is a color you can use for backup, an interesting base, something that will blend in right up until the moment you need him (to kill a Walker, or to provide an interesting counterpoint to a lighter color.)
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Mary’s Maids is a celebration of purple (sorry, Lilac) in subtle, semi-solid beauty! This colorway would work beautifully with any other color in the 221B series – or with many of our Semi Precious colors.
This is a subtle, ladylike colorway, nothing too extravagant. Charming, likable, not unlike Mary herself.
But there’s some depth there, too,
“So my sister was alone in the house, except for two or three of the women servants, and they all rushed upstairs to hide their heads under the bedclothes when they saw the red coats. Thought the soldiers were sent by the devil.
“And I’ll no just say they were wrong.”
— Jamie, Outlander
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The first in our “Night” colors, vibrant shades of peacock, emerald, gold and scarlet are married with a repeating black, then over dyed in a very light orange for a surreal colorway.
Night makes every color more mysterious.
(Currently available for purchase at only at the ModeKnit Yarn booth at fiber shows across the US)
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One of the constants of A Song of Ice And Fire is the sheer wealth of the Lannister family. Clever and powerful, House Lannister’s words are “Hear Me Roar!” but unofficially their motto is “A Lannister always pays his debts.” They have the means and will power to pay any debt in full.
The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered — Tyrion Lannister
The rich, reddish brown colors of the buckeye nut make it a gorgeous harbinger of Fall. The yarn color is created by underdyeing pinks, yellows and orange, then allowing the yarn to set and dry completely. After that it’s overdyed with a rich brown, allowing hints of the warmer tones to come through.
The FLOW version of our popular Mandarin Duck, it’s a festival of reds, oranges, mid range blues all joined with a through line of lovely golden yellow.