I recently posed this question on our Facebook page, and want to ask here, too. My reason for asking is sevenfold:
1. I am avoiding painting my dining room for the 19th time, and would rather sit here by the fire creating polls on my laptop than get up and do it.
2. I am a naturally curious person. I like to know things. Knowing things is sometimes more fun than doing things, like painting my dining room.
3. I know which colors I like, but it's important to me to make other people happy with my yarn, so this is useful information. If you all say that you hate all colors and just want to be subversive, for example, I will know to just close up shop, drink a skim mocha, and cry myself to sleep each night for the next seven weeks.
4. I am finalizing selections for my new colorway collection, and this could help me if I'm waffling between two selections. If I know that 80% of you prefer jewel tones and not neutrals, that could be a deciding factor.
5. It's useful to the yarn shops I work with. Some of the owners heavily favor one palette (hey, we all do it), and it's sometimes nice to be able to say, "Well, when I surveyed my readers, they said they really like bright colors, much moreso than earth tones," (or vice versa).
6. Some of you don't use Facebook, or aren't a fan of our Facebook page, and I want your opinion to count, too.
7. You can anonymously leave comments here on the blog, whereas everyone can see who you are on Facebook. Some people feel more comfortable behind the veil of anonymity.
So, here's the question. Pick an answer. If you're having trouble deciding, go with your first instinct, not the answer you came up after doing some hard math using data from the Excel spreadsheet you use to store all your stash info.
And feel free to tell me why you picked the answer you did in the comments section. The more info you give me, the better chance I'll have at knocking this collection out of the park. (Oh, and if you answered on Facebook, feel free to answer here as well.)