I am still working on my oink cowl, but it always makes me kind of nervous to not have any other project in the works. What if I finish? What if I get to a place where there is a mistake and I have to think? The oink is fairly mindless this stage....but you just never know how long it will take to get something else started. And indeed this project has been a bit slow to get going. I have ripped out and restarted all week and still have only about 4 rows done. I have also changed colors....and changed needles. The yarn is a bit splitty and I changed to some sharper points.
The pattern begins with a mosaic section and I decided that the white variegated yarn I had chosen to be color A was not a clear enough contrast to the other color in the mosaic...so I am doing the mosaic in the blue and the purple. I am not sure how that will affect the rest of the pattern.
The yarn is Hedgehog fibers sock yarn in colors Bali, Deja Vu and Spell
And I am knitting on size 3 needles. It is moving slow at the beginning. Hopefully I'll report that it moves better when I finish the mosaic section.
Ok I give up ....I have started over too many times. I need to start this sometime that is NOT December! I first used the blue and white for the mosaic. Then I switched because the white has flecks in it that match the purple and the blue too well. So the Mosaic was not crisp enough to suit me. Then I switched to the purple and blue for the mosaic, but I believe that I would prefer something a bit more crisp suchas the below:
And I am having a terrible time with finding that when I pick the knitting back up, I can't make the next row work. Perhaps I'll change colors? Here is another color way that I like:
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