Greens and browns

• Posted by Kamicha on April 19th, 2008 filed in Project Spectrum

This Chevron Sweater has involved more frogging than knitting - at least it feels like that! The beige yarn is a bit unbalanced and it did not knit up nicely to chevron pattern. So I frogged and tried to make directional M1:s to improve the look. Marginal improvement. Another setback was with colours. When the jade green stripe was ready, I decided that the intensity and lightness of those two first greens were too similar. So what next: some frogging and yarn shopping. Unfortunately the new green I ordered was almost identical shade to the original, so no improvement in here, either. Luckily I like the combination more now, that lime green stripe saves the combo.

I knit the sleeve now, flat because I did not have a circular short enough. And why did not I think this: the unbalanced yarn looks so much better knitted back and forth! Not perfect, but significantly better. Should I frog the body piece or what :-D.

Another slowly progressing knit is the cashmere sweater for my husband. And now I have lost my faith to the math I made when calculating the shrinkage of the yarn (Colourmart oiled cashmere). My original swatch is lost. Should probably knit a new one and calculate again.

Relatively fast is my latest design, a summer top from oddballs of cotton; mercerized and unmercerized; white, beige and couple of shades of brown with hint of rose. I knit up separate sections with different stitch patterns, pick up stitches, crochet the pieces together. This is so much fun and I really wait to see the result. Should resemble distantly this, the middle piece has two folds on top, creating the A-line.