First pass
I took three small balls and started making a magic ball. I started with pink, then a pink, white and lavender ombre yarn, and then a darker lavender color. While I wait to find the next matching color it sits on my ball winder, because I don’t have anything I need to wind yet. It may bet to a certain size and then languish, but I think this time around I will make sure the first colors of each of the mystery balls that I make will be a solid color, so if I need to cheat a little to make the colors flow into one another I can use black or another neutral to make the colors of the balls flow together. I may look and see what else I have or wait until I complete the afghan I’m working on in purples to be completed and see what I have left over. I might just raid the yarn bowl to see what inspiration strikes.
Raiding the bowl
The raid of the yarn bowl turned out to be a bust. There’s nothing that will coordinate with any of the colors that I have on the outside of the ball so far. I use up scraps of black and other neutrals.
This one has turned out to be small because I don’t have anything that will coordinate with the shades or plum yet. It seems as though this one will be the splash of color for a large granny square until I find more to add to it.
Another try…
The ball may not be as small as originally thought… I kept searching for the right transition color and found it. Just a small transition color that bridged the purple ombre with more after it.
Now it is really taking shape and looking great.
I also discovered that I could put all of the shades of brown, blues and grays together to make accent mystery balls.
That one little section bridged the gap and had made the little mystery ball that could, grow, grow, grow.
