I have now finished the fourth colorway
and I did indeed stop the neckline Mistake-Stitch Rib pattern as soon as I worked the double dec that “joined” the outermost two columns of knit stitches. I am quite pleased with the final result.
On the first and third sweater adventures, I did the simplest thing possible to use the colorways I had: I worked each one as far as possible before switching to the next. But on the second sweater, the CotLin Circular Yoke, I used the lightest colorway in one tall section at the neck and the darkest in one tall section at the waist, then I split the middle three colorways into two groups of shorter bands and reversed their order below the waist. I think the overall visual effect worked out fairly well, and splitting the three middle colorways certainly allowed me to use nearly every bit of their yarn while making the bands all the same height.
I must admit to being a bit worried over how the WIP’s edgings all wanted to turn under or flip up (depending on whether they were vertical or horizontal). But I wove in all the ends and ran the FO through a complete machine laundry cycle, hoping for the best.
I’ve finished the first three colorways, which means I did my crochet cast-on at the underarm and have finished the V-neck increases.
I knew I was playing a bit of yarn chicken with colorway 2, trying to get to the same row number on the back and both fronts. As it turns out, I lost by about 40 stitches! I had started with the back, so that if I ran short, I would have to frog only the first front I worked on, rather than the entire width of the back. And don’t tell anyone, but I left the back worked through row 86 while the two fronts are only worked through row 85. That’ll just be our little secret!!! You won’t tell on me, will you???
Holding the yarns doubled looks like a good option. Well, it does for the first colorway at least.
I have markers
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. 🙂
Since the full chart from the previous post is, shall we say, a bit unwieldy to work from, I stripped it down to its bare essentials before I cast on the back at the tops of the shoulders. This chart preserves all the key information while fitting on a single piece of paper with the stitch symbols at 12 points, which is important for my aging eyeballs.