KnitPicks Spruce Hand Kettle Dyed Not Accurate
I ordered the Spruce colourway of the new kettle dyed (hand dyed) Wool of the Andes yarns from Knitpicks. Neither the Grasshopper nor the Spruce were true to the screen, which is somewhat to be expected, but the Spruce is virtually solid, not kettle dyed, and uniform instead of multiple teals and greens. The resulting colourway is not anything like the photos.
In this I've adjusted the photo to match the Grasshopper as closely as possible, the thumbs and the group shot are from Knitpicks' site. You can see that the Grasshopper looks right, albeit a little yellow or a little greener depending on the light, but when you correct for the Grasshopper light colour, the Spruce is wildly out of whack. Since the photo of them is ONE PHOTO, I can conclude that the Spruce I received is substantially different when compared to the Spruce in the thumbnail view or the group photo (and they are, in fact, substantially different when compared to each other).
I'm going to keep the yarn, not send it back, but this is more of a general warning that the Spruce is really not as depicted. I did contact Knitpicks about it and they were characteristically willing to listen and try to understand the problem.
KnitPicks Spruce Hand Kettle Dyed Not Accurate
I ordered the Spruce colourway of the new kettle dyed (hand dyed) Wool of the Andes yarns from Knitpicks. Neither the Grasshopper nor the Spruce were true to the screen, which is somewhat to be expected, but the Spruce is virtually solid, not kettle dyed, and uniform instead of multiple teals and greens. The resulting colourway is not anything like the photos.
In this I've adjusted the photo to match the Grasshopper as closely as possible, the thumbs and the group shot are from Knitpicks' site. You can see that the Grasshopper looks right, albeit a little yellow or a little greener depending on the light, but when you correct for the Grasshopper light colour, the Spruce is wildly out of whack. Since the photo of them is ONE PHOTO, I can conclude that the Spruce I received is substantially different when compared to the Spruce in the thumbnail view or the group photo (and they are, in fact, substantially different when compared to each other).
I'm going to keep the yarn, not send it back, but this is more of a general warning that the Spruce is really not as depicted. I did contact Knitpicks about it and they were characteristically willing to listen and try to understand the problem.