I really find that yarn that is heathered, or variegated or anything like that moves the work along. It's almost embarrassing to admit that I can be entertained by little flecks of colour in wool. I wonder where the next fleck will land, what colour it will be? Will it land on the right side? Will it be near other flecks? Will this stretch of blue go past the red from the last row? I hope the yellow goes over there.... Gripping really. I'd be actually embarrassed to admit that I care this much, instead of almost embarrassed, except I know that you care too.

I do! It's almost comical, really. I'm always drawn to variegated yarns. I obviously adore the self-patterning sock yarns, and find it hard to imagine knitting a whole sock in just one color. Why bother?? Although I have been thinking that it might be fun to make sock monkey socks, if only I could find the right color of sock monkey brown . . .

And yes, even a heathery tone will attract me enough to make a difference, and we all remember the Elann Araucania debacle, in which I was forced to spend a veritable fortune on that handpainted yarn because I loved the different variations in color. Most of it is still in the basement in Rubbermaid tubs because it's not really worsted weight, thus a little too thin to make anything that I had purchased it for, but it is lovely.

Anyway, yes, I understand. Show me a page of color choices where all of them are just solid colors, and I'll mostly go "eh." Unless there's a really pretty dusty rose or seafoam green, both of which are calling to me currently, but show me a selection of variegated colors, and I'll want them all. It just makes knitting, for me, so much more interesting.