Knitting with Sara

Since moving into my new place, I have been trying to find something to hang over my bed. I looked at a lot of artwork online, but didn't see anything I liked in the very specific colors that I wanted. So what do I do when I can't buy something I want? I make it! Specifically, I knit it, of course. I actually looked into doing something macrame before deciding on knitting. The biggest deciding factor for these wall hangings was the fact that I already had the dowel rods. This made deciding the yarn weight pretty easy. I had to use yarn that would look decent on 4.5mm needles because my dowel rods were about 4mm thick. Narrowing down the yarn weight helped a lot, but there were still many yarn possibilities. I was looking for very specific colors. I spent a lot of time looking at yarn online but was too nervous to buy it in case the color was off. I deciding to check out the yarn store around the corner from where I work, so I could look at the yarn colors in person. Would you b