Print o'the Day

After some marathon knitting, I reknit and finished off the first part of the center section by the Tuesday following the fateful Saturday frogging. I'd actually started the second section by our Zombie Prom Date Knitters meetup at the coffee shop.

Since then, I've been slacking on the knitting. Mostly due to spindle making...sandpaper hands and lace don't exactly mix well. But here we are so far.

I'm seriously considering frogging this half too. But not until I've finished knitting it. And only if I don't like the way the colors flow. The far end of this section now begins with the yarn from the center end of the first section. Eyeballing my yarn cake--

break for spinning details (which should have been in the post linked above): About 2/3 the 20' foot or so length of the top was predominantly aqua, with the last 1/3 having more bluey purples. I wanted to bring down the aqua, brighten the purples and distribute the darker parts...hopefully avoiding sharply defined striping for an overall softer tone. I spun the first single from one continuous strip, aqua end first. For the second single, I split about an equal strip down it’s entire length and spun purple end first. Then I joined the next strip going in the same direction (purple first).

Kind of like this...

1 <-------------------------------------------------------------------

2 <-------------------------------------------------------------------

--I'm pretty sure the center end of this section is going predominantly teal/aqua, as the far end of the first section. If I think it looks better with the teal/aqua at each end of the finished shawl and the more bluey purple stuff centered in each section...I'll frog and reknit from the opposite end.

Yeah, I'm obsessing. I'm a wee bit stressed. Leave me alone. It's all good.