Of course, nothing is simple. When I go to choose the yarn, Scandinavian Knitting Design don't have a very large stock, so instead of using one yarn with big contrasts in the colour changes, I have decided to use two colours - one blue/grey and not very variable, and one mainly red/orange with added lime and purple. So it will not end up looking like the one in the pattern but I hope it will be good in a different way. There is so much variation in the colours that it is impossible to predict what I am going to get. This is the main attraction!
I am using the squares pattern by Ruth Sorensen. There are some delightful, more complex ones about, but this is not about the pattern really, it is about the yarn. The pattern needs to be simple. This will be my first attempt at steeks. Or should I call them Eeks! I don't anticipate any problems - the yarn holds fast to itself; I can almost hear it peeling off as I pull it from the ball. One thing I don't recall seeing mentioned anywhere: it is quite smelly! Definitely a reek of the rural when I opened the bag. Also I can feel the lanolin on my hands after a spell of knitting. This means it should bloom when it gets it's first wash.
Of course the little bit of corrugated rib you see above is the second start. Guess who twisted the cast on, first go!
1 comment:
I think those two colours definitely work together.
I've never actually twisted a circular cast-on. I keep meaning to do it deliberately one day, just to see what actually happens.
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