those kneewarmers look really fun! um, color-wise. (random aside: I was in my hometown/my mother's town recently & ran into my childhood bus driver. very fond of him, really. also it was funny because nobody I grew up with recognizes me, but was all "come on, I watched you grow up since you were 5, getting a foot taller and chopping off all your hair isn't going to change whether I can recognize you!" man earned himself a hug with that one haha. what an interesting point though. he sees tons of kids, but he sees them over so many years. those of us who rode the bus most of our lives (10 years before I moved away) he recognizes even 8 years later. that's very nice. I like that. bus drivers have always had my respect - like hell I'd turn my back on that many kids! - but d'awww, I just love him.)
ahem. re sweater: love the color thing. my (second-)favorite scarf (because my new favorite was just delivered to me yesterday, a rainbow made by theoretical_cat exactly to my choosing hooray; pictures later if TC consents) is one that I made when I was just learning to knit. I was all, oh, I love this dark blue and I love this light blue and I just wish I could find a variegated-in-the-style-I-like* of these two colors and then I realized that I could just hold the two together and roll with it. delightful. (also, very warm.) anyway, so I am predisposed towards liking that sort of coloring trick, but also those colors look really good together, to my eyes. (I don't have a clue what the sweater will look like at the end, not one of my skills, but I like the colors!)
*while all types of variegation have their place, of course, I typically prefer the kind where (this is so hard to explain) (actually i have a starting point! haha) it looks all along like two (or more!) colors held together rather than Color A changes into Color B changes into Color C changes into Color A. (and I would also like to take this opportunity to be sort of baffled that there are variegations where colors just abruptly change rather than melting smoothly into one another. Why is that a thing people want? idgi. (I don't doubt that people like it. (I've seen it in scarf-yarn a lot recently.) I just don't see why.))
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ahem. re sweater: love the color thing. my (second-)favorite scarf (because my new favorite was just delivered to me yesterday, a rainbow made by
*while all types of variegation have their place, of course, I typically prefer the kind where (this is so hard to explain) (actually i have a starting point! haha) it looks all along like two (or more!) colors held together rather than Color A changes into Color B changes into Color C changes into Color A. (and I would also like to take this opportunity to be sort of baffled that there are variegations where colors just abruptly change rather than melting smoothly into one another. Why is that a thing people want? idgi. (I don't doubt that people like it. (I've seen it in scarf-yarn a lot recently.) I just don't see why.))