I finished colorway 1 with 20.76 g left, so there will be plenty to work the neck ribbing.
Colorway 2, Tide, started with 98.83 g. As I was winding, I noticed more particularly that it’s dyed in alternating blocks of white and dark blue, rather than being spotted like colorway 1 was. That means I’m likely to get the same effect as at the bottom of the CotLin U-Neck, with the zigzagging stripes. Argh! Stymie #1.
I’m glad to say that I’ve finally finished the charting book. It’s been a long haul, and I can only hope that you will learn a small fraction of what I learned in writing the book.
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After sleeping on it for several days, I decided to change a few minor things from my initial planning for the yoke of this second sweater adventure.
First, I needed to do an actual correction to my provisional CO stitch count. Since I’m working in the round, I won’t, after all, lose a stitch when I remove the PCO to work the neck ribbing in the opposite direction, so I did my PCO with only 140 sts, not the 141 I had originally planned.
I’m doing a trial run of the top half of the yoke in a spare colorway of my project yarn, just because there are so many things going on that I want to feel the freedom to experiment by using yarn I don’t care about. I don’t like frogging anymore than anybody else, and while I don’t think the first project colorway would be damaged by frogging and reworking, why take that chance when I have a colorway that won’t otherwise be used?
Since I’m going to do a waste provisional cast-on and start immediately with the stockinette main fabric of the sweater, I want to leave a long-enough tail so that when I remove the PCO to work the neck ribbing, I have sufficient yarn right there, already attached and long enough to do the entire final trim.
Just as I did with the first sweater in this series, I’m going to make a multi-column table in my word processor and use my knitting font to show every stitch, including the cast-on and bound-off stitches, of the sweater.