I’m about halfway through the Clapotis for Judy, my MIL.
This is a good opportunity to show you how fussy I get about matching up stripes in Noro.
I buy a bunch of these
and re-wind them so I can find any knots that disrupt the color sequence. If there is a knot I start a new ball.
I bought six skiens, but I ended up with eight balls of varying sizes.
I figure our which color each ball starts and ends with, and plan an order so the color sequence is continuous.
When I have to join a new ball, I make sure to start it with exactly the same color that I’m finishing with. And after all that, Noro betrayed me.
Ok, fine, it isn’t that big a deal. Here, I’ll show you what I mean.
On the left, pink is followed by olive-brown, and then by purple. The next time pink came up it was followed directly by purple, skipping the olive-brown! I didn’t join it wrong, the ball skipped that color. It just goes to show that knitting is governed by mysterious forces beyond our control!
3 responses so far ↓
Emano // December 6, 2006 at 9:09 am |
That is a beautiful piece of work. As the knitter who knows it may irk you, but as a viewer I couldn’t see a problem in the first unlabeled picture– and I was looking for one. No one else who sees you wear it will be even looking for a problem.
mle // December 9, 2006 at 11:03 am |
I would never have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out! That’s part of the fun with stripy varigated yarn…you just never know how it will behave!
Jennifer // December 11, 2006 at 2:46 pm |
You are obviously a madwoman. It’s lovely.