Holding the yarns doubled looks like a good option. Well, it does for the first colorway at least.

I have markers

• right on the needles separating the edgings from the stockinette
• counting every ten rows (the gold pins through the fabric)
• showing the two most-recent rows with V-neck increases (the light-bulb markers through the fabric)

Since I was watching college football while working this first colorway, the on-needle markers reminded me, most of the time, at least, to switch from one stitch pattern to the other. Yes, I did still have to tink in a couple of places. 🙂

I also stopped each garment piece after working the edging at the beginning of the row, to move the color changes away from the very edge of the fabric. That also seems to be working well enough, as you’ll be able to judge for yourself when I finish colorway #2 and post that picture. (I put red markers on the needles in addition to those between the stitch patterns, as an extra reminder to not begin the next color at the very edge of the fabric.)

I am super-pleased with how this new-to-me edging stitch pattern is coming out, and I think the shoulder-line knitting purling-up looks pretty good too. Definitely will keep that trick in mind in the future, though I don’t have any more flat-worked projects on the horizon.

Yarn Usage

I worked through row 42, plus the edgings at the beginning of row 43, for a total of 8,638 stitches, and used 101.39 g of Goddess. That means I made 85 sts/g of doubled Hawthorne.

I had 12.44 g of color #1 remaining, which theoretically should have allowed me to work row 43 fully plus the edgings of row 44, but I didn’t want to push my luck. I’d rather have a bit of yarn left over than tink one row, especially because this colorway is part of the other Hawthorne value pack.

The Final Adventure

Oh, yes, holding each colorway double means I already know how I’ll work sweater adventure #4, which will be made with the Hawthorne Fog Bank value pack. I do need to swatch in the round, as I’m tentatively planning a seamless longish-sleeved sweater, depending on how many square inches of fabric I think I’ll be able to make from the 700 g of yarn in that VP. Oh, actually, I’ll have 770 g, since I’m going to throw in the 10-g samples from the Hawthorne co-op I participated in several months ago, plus the leftover 12 g noted above. I think I’ll be able to get at least three-quarter sleeves in a seamless, top-down, raglan V-neck. But I don’t want to get too ahead of myself!