Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

I've gotten very little knitting accomplished in 2018. I did, however, do some spinning. Mountain Colors Summertime + Ruby Red (above) Mountain Colors Ruby Red + Ruby Red (below) I have a vision for a little red riding hood costume for Dragon*Con. I think it would be great to make the whole cape out of handspun. Ideally, I'd like the entire outfit to be handwoven, hand-knitted, crocheted, sprang-ed, and the like. I've been buying and spinning red. I don't have a plan. My thought is just to make a big pile of red yarn using my default spinning technique, then figure out what goes where. I also have some fleeces with locks, as I think an edging of locks on the cape would be dramatic. I decided to spin some of the red Mountain Colors Bluefaced Leicester in my stash. Let me just pause right now and say, I adore Mountain Colors . Their colorways are rich, saturated, and vibrant. I had three bumps of Ruby River . Is there a better basic red out there? My original plan...