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Looking to create a project in COLOR? Get tips and tricks from Zontee and Michelle on picking the right palette for your decor, your gift recipient, or your own skin tone and hair color!

Tools and resources discussed include:

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• Design-Seeds.com
  
• Color Schemer
  
• How to Determine Your “Season” Color Palette
  
• The Very Easy Guide to Fair Isle Patterns by Lynne Watterson
  
• Color Knitting the Easy Way and Mastering Color Knitting by Melissa Leapman
  
• Wild Color by Jenny Dean
  
• The Alchemy of Knitting by Gina Wilde
  

We also talk about some of our listeners’ favorite books from the previous episode. Click here to see the show notes and comments from that episode!

Congratulations to the winners of our book giveaway–Angie, SBFH, and Charlene are each getting one of the books from our friends at SMPCraft! Check your email for more information about how to get your prizes. Tune in next episode for another chance to win!

Then on Stash This: Ideas for Your Crafting Life, we talk about loom knitting resources. Click here for a blog post from the Lion Brand Notebook with many of the resources we discuss. Check your local library and/or bookstore for books by Denise Layman, Isela Phelps, Kathy Norris, Anne Bipes, and Pat and Kim Novak.

Join us in two weeks when we talk about Mother’s Day gift ideas–have you ever given or received an awesome handmade Mother’s Day gift? Tell us about it! Leave a message on the blog or email us at yarncraft [at] lionbrand [dot] com! You can also call in and leave a message at 774-452-YARN–that’s 774-452-9276. 

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Theme music is “Boy with a Coin” by Iron and Wine, from the PodSafe Music Network.

00:11 Intro & welcome

01:03 Listeners’ favorite books

06:04 Listener call

06:51 Picking color palettes

26:36 Stash This: Ideas for Your Crafting Life

35:34 Contest winner announcement

36:16 Thanks to our listeners