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WHEEeeeeee! Twice in the same week!

Check it out: More Blog Reader Specials. Be sure to EMAIL with the name of the one(s) you want. Please note that pricing is different across the various types of yarns, but all are discounted from the regular prices. Regular shipping rates, based on weight, will be added to your invoice.

To start, there was one from the last bunch that was unable to be claimed as planned, so here is

12Oct09-Lace #06 - an extra Doberman (4 oz. approx 920 yards; 75% superwash wool/25% nylon) $22.50 SOLD

And all the new ones!

Fingering 6-Feb-#1 - (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 700 yards) $15.95  Fresher than tomorrow’s salad. SOLD

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Fingering 6-Feb-#2 - (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 700 yards) $15.95  Greens, blue greens, overstreaked with yellow slashes. SOLD

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Fingering 6-Feb-#3 - (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 700 yards) $15.95    Reds SOLD

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SOCK - 6Feb - S#11 - (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 4 oz, approx 460 yards) $22.95 SOLD

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SOCK - 6Feb - S#12- (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 4 oz, approx 460 yards) $22.95 (muted, decisive) SOLD

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SOCK - 6Feb - S#13- (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 4 oz, approx 460 yards) $22.95 (greens and that funny faded green of wilting celery tops) SOLD

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SOCK - 6Feb - S#14 - (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 4 oz, approx 460 yards) $22.95  Hot… very hot. SOLD

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Sport 6-Feb-#Sport1 - (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 420 yards) $15.95 - Deep Aquatic? SOLD

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Sport 6-Feb-#Sport2 - (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 420 yards) $15.95 - Lighter Aquatic? SOLD

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Sport 6-Feb-#Sport3 (100% wool; 4 oz.; approx. 420 yards) $15.95 (muted jeweltones) SOLD

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BIG SOCK - 6Feb - S#211- (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 8 oz, approx 920 yards) $44.95  YIKES!

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BIG SOCK - 6Feb - S#212- (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 8 oz, approx 920 yards) $44.95  Richly Reds. SOLD

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BIG SOCK - 6Feb - S#213- (75% superwash wool/25% nylon, 8 oz, approx 920 yards) $44.95  Colors lifted from a dollar bill. SOLD

Taking a break from skeining and packing everyone’s orders for shipping this afternoon/tomorrow morning.

Father’s Day is in June.  What can you knit for Dad with one or two skeins?   Yeah, yeah … everyone knows about socks.   But what about a necktie?   Or a felted coin bowl?   or  a cap with a pocket?    I’m thinking up a suitable Fathers Day contest to be announced in the next week or so, giving everyone time to think about a project with enough time to implement it.   Why not a Mothers Day project?   Because I suspect LOTS of people are already doing Mothers Day promotional efforts. 

Meanwhile, I’m also thinking up some ways for a special sale on SuperBowl Sunday — either free shipping on orders over $50 placed after the opening kick-off and before the final whistle, or some other such thing.   Since we already know the Saints are going to win <*fingers crossed*>, it would be silly to have a promotion based on which team wins. 

But I’ll think up something and post the details tomorrow.  Meanwhile, back to wrapping and packing.   I’ve heard a rumor that all those Superwash yarns ordered recently were shipped this week, so I should have them tomorrow or Monday, and the Etisoppo Footie pattern will be going out with the shipping announcements.

Back to work I go….

I think that was the first time an entire collection of Blog Reader Specials was taken entirely.    Very COOL!   And Thank You, everybody.   Everything ordered from that collection will be shipped tomorrow morning (or as soon as payments clear)

The dye jobs that were done yesterday are hanging  to dry, which leaves the extras that were soaking are available for me to dye today as experiments and play time.  Wooo-hooo!

The weather is totally sucky — gray and rainy, expecting to continue until after mid-day tomorrow.  Bummer, huh?

I  started the day thinking I had a handful of skeins to post. Turns out there are 25 items below (if I counted correctly). They all have to leave here this week. After you select the ones you want, please do tell your friends to pick from the rest!

NOTE:  This posting supercedes all prior postings and offereings for Blog Reader Specials, which are made obsolete by reference.

Instead of marking them as SOLD, and inadvertently confusing people, I’m deleting those that are claimed and sold.  Okay… you spoke, I listened; pictures are restored down below. 

As per the regular fine print and details (please click and read to be sure you are doing it right) these are each offered at $22.50 apiece. As always, these are all one of a kind — some experiments, some mistakes, some just plain extras. Email requests only, please; and all payments through PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account — they will accept your credit card just fine.

Please note that many of these were posted previously. When writing to claim the ones you want, be sure to include both the DATE and the ITEM NAME and NUMBER for each item. If you are outside the U.S., please indicate your country so that I can add appropriate postage charges.

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SOLD

24Nov09-Lace #921 -

12Oct09-Lace #08 - pale salmon and turquoise.

12Oct09-Lace #02 - Blues

12Oct09-Lace #04 - medium and light blues.

12Oct09-Lace #06 - an extra Doberman

24Nov09-Lace #923 -

09Jan10 - Lace 01 - a leftover Rubicunda overdyed with a variety of leftover dyes.

09Jan10 - Lace 03 - an early test for Hadrian’s Wall

09Jan10 - Lace 05 - a leftover Rubicunda overdyed with periwinkle.

09Jan10 - Lace 06 - A test skein of Bronze Patina (this is not the final colorway)

01Feb10 - Lace 01 - An extra version of Lake Berry

01Feb10 - Lace 02 - Mostly tans and grays

01Feb10 - Lace 03 - Deep browns, grays

01Feb10 - Lace 04 -a Dirty Mechanic variant.

01Feb10 - Lace 05 - more deep browns, tans, grays

01Feb10 - Lace 06 - a medium browns, tans, grays.

01Feb10 - Lace 07 - A blush

01Feb10 - Lace 08 - A Turquoise Fade extra

SOCKS

09Jan10 - Sock 05 - A test skein of Bronze Patina (this is not the final colorway)

01Feb10 - Sock 01 - So dark a brown it looks nearly black. But it really is brown!

01Feb10 - Sock 02 - Blush (a Watermelon turned too far toward blue, but slightly deeper than #6 below)

01Feb10 - Sock 03 - intended to be a Burnt Apricot, but there was a blob of Midnight Green that landed in the lightest portion of the hank; it is barely noticeable, but will be mildly visible while knitting.

01Feb10 - Sock 04 - An early test for Hadrian’s Wall.

01Feb10 - Sock 05 - a Dirty Mechanic variant.

01Feb10 - Sock 06 - Blush! (a Watermelon turned too far toward blue, but slightly paler than #2, above)

First, off….    DD2’s Footies are done and blocking!

and I’m nearly done writing up the instructions for making these.   I will write up *exactly* how I did these, but also make a set of principles, by which anyone can imitate these in any size with any yarn.

Tomorrow I will be showing off a new bunch of Blog Reader Specials.   Some are leftovers from previous bunches, plus there are some new ones, and some for which claim was made but never paid so those will be reposted.

Also, while digging in the workroom, I found three of those big half-pound sock hanks.   I thought I’d sold them all long ago, but I guess not.   I’m thinking I will dye them up for shawl works, perhaps for contest or drawings or something.

Into the evening I go.

First Preview Sale of the Year!

My intention is to announce this only to my own Knitivity lists and groups, but you are welcome to share a link to this page with any of your own friends who might be interested.

Patina was inspired by this image of a bronze statue:

And here are the sample swatches: I did about 30 rows of each in regular stockinette stitch (below, in each picture) and then about 30-ish rows in a 1×1 Slip Stitch (above, in each picture). The Dura-Lace doesn’t show well, but I’m including them anyway, so you can get a rough idea of the color distribution when knitting. The reason for the 1×1 slip stitch is to show how to more readily mix the colors and break up the horizontal striping effects. (I am really REALLY enjoying the 1×1 slip-stitch — on the LK-150 the machine tensions just enough so that the fabric is not bunchy or tight - even for hand-knitting, I would strongly recommend it for knitting variegated yarns, although you’d want to go up 1 or 2 needle sizes to ensure a better fabric.)

Patina - a foundation of a light silvergray solution, with tinges of brown, chestnut, Knitivity Steel Blue, and teal; dyed in the watercolor technique.

Patina in SOCKS

Patina in Dura-Lace

Easter Parade - a foundation of undyed yarn with narrow stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple across the hank — all in light solutions, 50% or less, sequenced twice along the span of the hank.

Easter Parade in SOCK

Easter Parade in Dura-Lace

And now, for Preview Pricing for blog readers, the pricing here is $2.00 off the regular price.   They will be added to the the regular Socks-Lace page on Saturday, if there are sufficient initial requests for these colorways.  Orders for these yarns will be tallied and sent to the mill on Friday, so they should all be dyed within 2-3 weeks.

(shown on Dura-Lace, above, SOCKS, below)
(shown on Dura-Lace, above, SOCKS, below)

I am still dyeing into the evening, but I took some time to reskein the goodies as my sausage and rice boiled for supper.  I’ll have to knit up swatches tomorrow evening.

Sooo….  whattaya think?

Here’s the Patina, lace above, sock below

And here’s Easter Parade, lace above, sock below.

Okay, this will have to be quick — I have a LOT to do today.

First up, I finished the first footie of the 2nd pair.  This pair is going to DD2.   It only took 2-3 days to finish, working sporadically in my free (HAHAHA) time.   Considering most socks take me several weeks to finish, this should indicate just how quickly you can make worsted weight footies!

And here are the Patina and Easter Parade samples, fresh from the conditioning cycle, drying on the rack:

Both of them will look a lot better when they’ve been reskeined and you can see how the colors mixy-mix all together.

There is a SOCK and a Dura-Lace in each colorway.   I’m thinking after reskeining for presentation, I will run them both up on the knitting machine and post a swatch as well as the skeins.

Thoughts???

Wow… these things worked up faster than I expected!   Wooo-hoooo!

And I present to you…

The Knitivity Etisoppo Footies!

There are a few technical issues to overcome, which will be addressed by doing the 2nd pair with slightly different techniques for toes and heels, but essentially they will be the same.   DD2 picked out her colors yesterday when she took pictures of The Sweater, so I have hers done in another week or two.

The biggest issue with this first pair is that I did them on 2 circulars, and you can see a bit of the hump made by doing so.    It’s my own fault, of course:  in order to avoid ladders, I made a point to snug the last and first stitches more than I might have.   I have to learn to relax more, I suppose.   I am hoping that a good wash and blocking on the blockers will help ease it out.

Anyway… I’m tickled that this first pair is done.

As I mentioned previously, I’m not entirely sure I want to write this one up, or remake it with different yarn and a smaller sized needle.

But my daughter was available to take some pictures today, so you can at least see that it IS finished and wearable as it is, whether perfect or not.

It will suffice for what it is, but I want a slightly better product for writing it up.

These things are moving along quickly.

The other one is started with dark and I’ve begun the stripes of light.

The next time I do these, the end-of-round will be at the center of the bottom, rather than at the side, but the mate for this one will be done in a manner identical to this one, in the Etisoppo tradition.

Very quickly, I started with a Turkish cast-on with 12 wraps, increased to 26 stitch on each of 2 circulars (52 stitches total), with 66 rounds from the end of toe to start of heel.  The heel is a standard short-row version, followed by 10 rounds of the stripe pattern, then 10 rounds of K2P2.  I ended with a contrasting crocheted semi-stretchy bind-off, which adds just a bit of frilliness but not overly foo-foo.  Neither of my daughters is particularly foofie, but they are both feminine, and I think (I hope…?) they’ll enjoy wearing their new Footies.

These are being done in Down Home Superwash Solid worsted weight, on size 3 needles.   It created a very firm fabric, which I wouldn’t want to wear as a standard sock, but these are intended to be worn around the house to keep the feet warm during the winter months.

If you are interested, I will write up a fuller explanation of this as a regular pattern, including my crocheted bind-off.   Just leave a note below (click the Talk to Me link below this post) or write an email to express interest in my Superwash Footie pattern.

And now….. it’s bedtime.

Last night I had a brainstorm — raise funds for Haiti by creating a colorway (based on the blue and red of the Haitian national flag), and contributing a portion of each skein’s sale to Doctors Without Borders.   ($5 for each sock or lace sold).

And then I slept on it (fitfully).

This would not only involve a lot of dyeing (time delay), but also as much as I desperately neeeeeeed to increase my income, I am unwilling to build my income even a little on the backs of people hurting far more than I am.

So I’m only going to ask that for those of you who are able, contribute $5.00 (or more) to Doctors Without Borders or find some other genuine humanitarian aid program.    The news is already reporting that charity scams are  begging money for Haiti, while only a portion (if any) is actually headed to the point of need.

I personally like to channel my resources through proven secular humanitarian programs, but I am aware that some religious charities are also working for recovery in Haiti.   This isn’t a time to quibble over such things.   Look into your own heart, find out who is doing what, and contribute your resources to whatever assistance you can honestly feel good about.    I would only ask that you check out the credentials of whatever Haiti-helping program is working, and make sure your money will go directly to help those in need, rather than advertising or administrative costs or diverted elsewhere.

And that’s all I’m going to say on it for the moment.

Okay, so this is what I was talking about yesterday.    I’m making Footies for my daughters.   Normally, in colorwork, the instructions say to bring up the new color underneath the previous color, so as not to leave a hole.   But in the case, where the colors change every round, I was doing that and creating a tiny lines of humps up the inside of the footie.

But after a mistake, I discovered I didn’t need to be doing that.    So I ripped out back to the toe and started over.  I simply started knitting with the dark purple.  When I came around to the end-of-round, there was the light purple waiting.   Basically, I am doing with 2 colors what some people (like EZ and Meg) when both are knitting on the same project like a sweater in the round and having 2 balls of yarn working into the project simultaneously — both are working directly on the stitches below, like normal knitting.  In my case I’m stacking a round of light, then a round of dark, alternating.   No need to twist the yarns.

Except at that one spot where the dark purple started, you cannot readily find the end-of-round position, nor can you feel it on the inside.

It is hard to see in this picture, but the last light purple stitch immediately before I started the dark is slightly elongated as I begin the round of light purple after the first round of dark; this is because it fills the gap created by inserting another round of a different color in between the 2 rounds of lighter purple.   Barely noticable.

I hope that makes sense.  I’m not going to rip it back again just to photograph the detail of introducing the 2nd color.    The second Footie will start with a dark purple toe, and will have the lighter purple introduced after the toe.   If you really really need a picture, I’ll try to remember to take a picture.  Or maybe I’ll just draw a picture to help visualize what’s happening.

Normally when doing stripes in circular knitting, you’re supposed to bring up the new color from under the previous color, making sure to make a half-twist to avoid holes.

I was many inches into the foot of the footie, changing color every round, between light and dark purple.   And on the side of the footie where the end-of-round color changes were happening I felt a firm little line on the inside where those little end-of-round changes were happening.

But somewhere I screwed up and missed a half-round.  And then I was just making a double-helix spiral.  Well, duuhhh!

So I ripped back to the end-of-toe shaping and started over.   How wonderful!   No need to twist colors to avoid holes.   No futzing for the end-of-round color-change jogs.

Awesome!  

Up to my eyeballs in dye jobs.

And knitting footies for my daughters with Down Home Solids in Superwash Wool (knitted on size 3 for a firm foot-worthy fabric).

And waiting for DD2 to come and photo me in my new sweater so I can package the pattern/instructions.

Meanwhile…..

In the last week I’ve gotten catalogs from a couple of yarn suppliers (not from my regular mill).   These catalogs have delicious bundles of color, and lots of drool-worthy projects.

I’m finding myself musing over the yarns readily available to me from my own mill, and wondering what sort of projects I could develop.  Certainly I wouldn’t let other things detract (too much) from my primary task of dyeing some of the most wonderful colorways currently on the market.   But I have access to solid colors dyed at the mill on the same yarns as my base yarns.   And these yarns are excellent for just about anything that can be knitted or crocheted.  So why not come up with some cool knits and crochets using the lines of yarns that I can access?

Hmmmm….

Okay…. so The Sweater is done.   I’m writing it up, and waiting for DD2 to swing by and take some pictures of it (with me inside) so I can publish the project instructions for sale.

Now that The Sweater is out of the way, I am working on the footies for my daughters.  I started last night, trying a vertical stripe technique that I’d seen on other people’s socks.   Didn’t like it, and tossed it away.  I’m starting over tonight in a different manner.

Meanwhile, yesterday’s Blog Reader Specials are going quickly, and I’ve got LOTS of yarns to be dyeing this week and weekend.

As I was tallying the orders against current in-house stock, I realized with horror that I have just barely enough to fill all orders, without even a single leftover on which to re-attempt the Bronze Patina or the new Easter Parade.   I mean — I have to have at least one of each colorway ready to show, right?    <*sigh*>    So I had to order still more yarn.  Yikes.

Anyway, it’s going to be a busy-busy week.   PLUS, I have two phone consultations tomorrow.   Wheee!

Onward into the night.

Here’s another bundle of Blog Reader Specials!

As per the regular fine print and details (please click and read to be sure you are doing it right) these are each offered at $22.50 apiece, or bundled at prices indicated, first come first served. There are only ONE of each available, and many of these are NOT a regular colorway, except as noted. Be sure to give your location when you email to claim your favorites, so I can calculate appropriate shipping.

Dura-Lace (75% washable wool/25% nylon) is approx. 920 yards; SOCKS (75% washable wool/25% nylon) is approx 460 yards; Fingering (100% wool) is approx 700 yards.

Each item is numbered for easy reference. The numbers and brief description is ABOVE the picture. Pictures are below the numbes and descriptions.

Fingering - Miss Teek!

A pair of Fingering, combined total approximately 1400 yards. These were dyed together in a single bundle with the same dyes, but seemed to pick up the dyes differently. Even so they are compatible, and recommended for use as a large shawl alternating skeins every 2-3 rows to ensure blending. Normally $17.95 apiece, you can have the pair for $32.00, just email me and ask for the Miss Teek Fingering bundle. SOLD

Lace - Cherry Berry Bundle

This pair of Dura-Lace (combined yardage approx 1840 yards) were supposed to be Watermelon but didn’t look quite right, so they are now Cherry-Berry. SOLD

Laceweight singles:

The collection:

09Jan10 - Lace 01 - a leftover Rubicunda overdyed with a variety of leftover dyes.   SOLD

09Jan10 - Lace 02 - a lovely gemtone lace. SOLD

09Jan10 - Lace 03 - an early test for Hadrian’s Wall

09Jan10 - Lace 04 - vibrant blues and greens (can you picture this with your jeans and sneakers?) SOLD

09Jan10 - Lace 05 - a leftover Rubicunda overdyed with periwinkle. SOLD

09Jan10 - Lace 06 - A test skein of Bronze Patina (this is not the final colorway) SOLD

Socks singles

The collection:

09Jan10 - Sock 01 - A blend of mostly black, periwinkle, and salmon. SOLD

09Jan10 - Sock 02 - was supposed to be Stonewashed Jeans, but I grabbed the Steel blue instead of the Navy! Oops! SOLD

09Jan10 - Sock 03 - just a brillianly gaudy as the picture shows! You know you want it. SOLD

09Jan10 - Sock 04 - a dark forest camo probably describes it best, but actually just a jumble of leftover colors. SOLD

09Jan10 - Sock 05 - A test skein of Bronze Patina (this is not the final colorway)

I will also have some leftover Worsted and Superwash Worsted later in the week.

Okay, so I had to mount it onto a l-o-n-g size 6 needle (you can see it hanging draped around my neck), but I’ve begun the collar.   Check it out:

There’s a lot that could be said about it, of course, but just getting this far with it tickles me quite a lot.

There are dozens of ends to trim, and a a few to actually weave, so it feels a bit funny and lumpy in places, but generally it feels light and loose.  I’m not sure I enjoy the looseness of a totally seamless sweater.

I also don’t know that I really like having skinny horizontal stripes.   It REALLY widens my figure, huh?   If I ever (ever!) do a similar sweater, it will be either bias-knit garter stitch, or perhaps vertical stripes.

And doing vertical stripes, of course, I would do a provisional cast on down the center-front, shape around the first sleeve, then the back, the other sleeve and around the other front.  It would require seaming, of course, but it could be done just the same.   And then, either graft the two fronts, OR use them as a base for a button band.

Lots of ideas running in my head.

But for now… I have to finish the neck and then deal with the loose ends.  And then I’ll have someone take some real pictures with a better camera.  This was taken with my little desktop camera, which takes HORRIBLE pictures.

The rest of my yarns should be arriving today.   Because there’s a hard freeze warning, with freezing temps between tonight and Saturday morning, I’m not sure I want to be dyeing during a freeze or wait until Saturday evening to start the actual dyeing.  Not that temperatures affect the dyeing itself — but if the pipes burst and I lose water in the middle of the process, it will be horrible.

I am grateful our freeze will be relatively minimal, compared to much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, and my heart goes out to those in far worse circumstances.    I’ll be back this evening with Blog Reader Specials… I hope … or tomorrow at the latest.

would probably still have thorns.

(okay, just a minor thorn, involving delayed shipping this time.)

Okay, so FIRST the good news — the mill just called.  Y’member I got them stirred up to create Dura-Lace for me?   And y’member that I have an exclusive on it, at least for a year?     Welllll….   the owner is taking a sample of it to TNNA this weekend, showing it off, and preparing to release it in their line-up for June (if I’m not mistaken).   That means the rest of the world will have access to the yarn I instigated!   Wooo-hoooo!     It also means other dyers will have it available (if they work with the same mill).

Granted, nearly everyone buying it from the mill or through other dyers won’t realize I (and you, and all my preliminary test-knitters) had much to do with it.  But we will know.   :-)      (and we will contain our gloating to the confines of these pages… right?)

As long as I had the mill on the phone, I inquired about the orders sent up last week (since I noticed my credit card had been charged).   Thanks to the start of the end-of-year sale, on Monday I called for 30 socks and 20 lace, and then on Wednesday I had to call for another 10 of each, so thats 40 socks and 30 lace.   I asked her to track the package(s), and was happy to learn that everything should be arriving here no later than tomorrow evening.   Some may get here today, if all goes well, but definitely tomorrow.    Very odd for charges to hit the bank before the yarn shows up, but I guess that’s part of the holiday shipping schedules and what-nots.

Which means that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday will be hellaciously busy with dyeing, washing, rinsing, drying, reskeining.  And we know from experience that NOTHING happens when I think it should, so it will likely drag out for a week to get it all done.  I’m glad I indicated the end-of-year sale would be shipping between the 15th and the 24th, eh?   Anyway, 14-21 days for a custom dye job isn’t unreasonable.

But it also means I have to get my butt into gear today and finish winding and photographing the bin full of Blog Reader Specials, and showing one of the new colorways.  OH… wait… here’s a picture:

That’s not the best picture, but it’s called “Bronze Patina” — an undercoat of light gray, with dustings of brown, chestnut, steel-blue, and sage green.   You can see more of the green in person.   Joan (Hi, Joan!) requested a custom job of a statue done by Leo Mol, in particular she wanted the coloring around the face and ear, where you can see a flash of sunlight on the cheek and the shadows in the ear.

The sock yarns dyed with the same batch came up darker (thicker yarn, picked up more of the dye), and I will probably tweak it a little more toward the bronzy/gray, so it’s not a final colorway just yet.   But you can see where I’m heading with it.

The other new colorway coming this month will be Easter Parade, and I’m not even going to try to describe the colors just yet, other than that it will be done in a manner similar to Mother of Pearl, and Bronze Patina (i.e., both have the colors+gray laid on them).   Parasol will also be joining this family of colorways later in the year.

Anyway….. back to work I go!  And I’m  at the point of The Sweater where I have to knit onto a short circular needle… oooohhhh! any time now I’ll be doing the neck line.   Woo-hoooo!    And not a moment too soon, considering the hard freeze coming our way this week.   Yes, we ARE in the south, but we do get a touch of winter now and again anyway.   And boy,  my hands and feet are seriously responding, so I’m not going out and about any more than I absolutely have to.

Whattaya think? It’s beginning to look more like the sweater I envisioned in my head.

And here’s a closer view of the top part:

As the sleeve stitches were being eaten away (along with the front/back stitches, of course), I was concerned that the sleeves would end and leave me a sort of boat-neck shape, but I’m less worried now.  I can see that the neck will, in fact, be narrowed to the typical 1/3 width of a regular sweater.  That’s good.

If I were to repeat the Stashbuster patterning, I would likely do four pieces on the machine, all the way to the top, and avoid the yoked appearance.

But all in all, I’m liking this and will likely wear it … IF it fits.   I am wondering now if I extended the space from the underarms to the start of the raglan shaping.     EZ recommend one or two inches, and I went almost two inches.   But in that span there are no increases or decreases.   So if there is too much bulk I can snip and remove several rows, and graft it all back together as needed.   The problem, however, is that the color sequence will be interrupted.   So I probably won’t do that.  I’ll just sell the sweater to someone really really tall.