Season 12 Pattern Yarn Photos Season 15 Pattern Yarn Photos Season 16 Pattern Yarn Photos Season 18 Pattern Yarn Photos   · Chris meets the      Original Scarf!   · Promotion Scarf   · Past Updates	Color Lesson I created this page in an attempt to explain the best way to choose colors for your scarf. Although I have given several yarn choices with specific colors, I realize that these yarns are expensive and/or hard to come by. Hopefully, after reading this page you can go to your yarn shop and pick out the best possible colors in whatever yarn brand is available to you. When picking colors there are several things you should keep in mind, such as the fact that it is important how the colors work together, not individually. For example, you could pick up a light tan color and think that it's perfect, but when you put it next to the other colors, it looks wrong. This is why I always pick out the colors and line them up next to each other to see how they look as a group. (this also results in constant exchanging of yarn at the store!) The colors on the original scarf were very balanced, shade-wise. There were two dark colors, (purple and gray) two light colors, (tan and yellow) and three medium colors. (brown, green and red) Also, bare in mind that certain colors are more important to get right than others. This list begins with the most important colors to the least important colors: Green - I believe this to be the most important color, partly because there is so much of it in the scarf and partly because it is not a very common color. (at least it's hard to find in yarn) It is a medium shade khaki green, almost brown. This is not a primary, vivid green! It also should not be too dark. Brown - This color is also very important. It is very similar to the green color. (The color brown is between green and red, but this color is closer to green.) If the brown looks too different from the green, the scarf won't look right. In my opinion, if you can't get the brown and green to be very similar, the scarf will look better if you just use one or the other. (ie: use the brown in place of green) It also should not be too dark. Tan - This is not an off-white! Mixed in with the other colors it can appear almost white, but it is indeed a light tan or beige color. This color should be about the same brightness as the yellow. Gray - This is not blue!!! This is a common mistake I see in a lot of scarves out there. By it's nature, gray can look very much like blue, especially when mixed in with the other colors on the scarf, but this color is actually absent of color. It should be quite dark, but not as dark as the purple. Yellow - The yellow should be a somewhat dull, orangy yellow that is not too dark. (It should not be darker than the tan.) You have a bit more flexibility with the yellow. Red - Another somewhat flexible color, it should be a somewhat dull red, not too dark or light. It should be more orangy than pinkish, but still red. Purple - Probably the easiest color, it should be dark and about half-way between red and blue hues. If you stick to dark, you can't go wrong. This should be the darkest color in the scarf. Also remember that the colors shouldn't be very vivid or bright. This is probably the most common problem I see and is one that I always try to avoid. Tom's original scarf was fairly subdued. (I'm sure that was deliberate by the BBC wardrobe department!) After all, you don't want to be seen a mile away! Well, that's all I can think of for now. I hope this helps!