The Ravelled Sleeve

Some visual evidence of knitting progress for you at last: the first 12 squares of Lizard Ridge.

The photo’s a little dark, but you can see a rough pattern emerging: half blueish squares and half reddish (although I have only 5 blue to 7 red at the moment). I’m through all but one of the balls I bought for this project, and have begun knitting squares from the yarn left over from the squares in the photo. The remnant squares are very satisfying, if unpredictable, to knit: I never know where the colour sequences are going to take me. I’ve frogged a couple of attempts which really weren’t working, but I’ve also just finished one I like as much as any of the squares in the photo.

Once I’ve finished the remnants, I’ll have a much better sense of how much more Kureyon, and in what colours, I’ll need to finish the project. My current best guess is that 2 balls makes approx. 2 1/2 squares, but I won’t be able to use all the scraps from every ball — or at least not without having some eyeball-scorchingly unmatched squares! I think I’ll be trying to introduce a little more variety into the colour range with the remaining balls I buy — some more greens and earth tones, probably.

Finally, a big thankyou to my lovely Secret Pal for the e-giftie and your sympathetic comments on my last post. They both brightened my day, and I’m very grateful. I haven’t decided what to put the giveanything.com gift card towards, but I’m thinking that one of the Vogue Knitting on the Go books might be in my future…