Fiber Fool

Well, the striping theory did not work out as planned. I had in fact mixed up which skein had the longer repeats. Oddly, I prefer the beginnings of trial number one when I did that (and I still have most of that section of yarn intact). I’m not terribly disappointed in version number 2 that actually made it to the finish line, but I think there may be a bit of post-knitting tweaking I can do to make me a bit happier with this one.

Originally I was thinking of writing up the pattern with instructions on how to spin the yarn to control the striping, but if I still wish to do that I will need to dye, spin, and knit it up in something else where I document the dyeing better and perhaps am a bit more consistent in the size of the striping while dyeing as well. I had also been contemplating making it a multi-size and multi-gauge no-swatch sort of pattern, but by this iteration it has gotten just enough more complicated that I think it would require a swatch to determine which size to knit so I’m not sure about going multi-gauge. I am also very happy with it knit in this gauge and I think it would be the optimum choice. Feel free to ring on your preference in patterns - multi-gauge and size or just multi-size? Either way I decide to go, there is much crunching of numbers ahead of me and deciphering of my chicken scratchings made while knitting it and watching hours upon hours of conspiracy TV on DVD. If I opt to just do multi-size I am still thinking about doing a similar one in a no-swatch style.

Working on this project I had so many other ideas for playing off of this theme! No just with stitch pattern either. I had several different ideas on the dyeing and spinning aspect as well. There just are not enough hours in the day to do all the creative things I want to do. *sigh*