I was running low on the contrast yarn and about the the pits on the increases, so I skipped the words on the sleeve and just went for the torso words. I got within 2 rows before running out of yarn, but I have to go back and adjust all the yarn stitch by stitch to minimize the bumpiness, which I think will find me enough extra yarn to finish up. I’m a really crappy and loose at colorwork, as you can see. Part of the problem is that this really isn’t a fair isle design, but I’m not willing to deal with intarsia in the round, and I only seem to like top-down raglans lately.
Here I’ve only adjusted the first quarter of rounds, and as you can see, it’s already yielded a fair amount of yarn. I had to cut and splice the excess a couple rows from here, because it was just becoming too unwieldy, and I was afraid it would put too much wear on the yarn. Although the yarn seems to hold up very well, in addition to being nice and bouncy. It’s this stuff.
I haven’t started fixing the dark brown yet, but hopefully I’ll get a little extra mileage from it, too, because I’m almost through the second of only 5 balls, which doesn’t bode well for the future of my sweater. I may have to try to spin some in the same family, but I just don’t know that I have a fiber that will match. I have enough natural brown rovings to come up with something, but I’d rather just have the 2 colors.
Interesting to see how you’re designing around limited quantities in the two colors of handspun. Hope it goes far enough. I live in fear that I’ll have the same issue with the yarn I made for my first handspun sweater!
Lovely cats – where can I find the pattern for this?
There’s no pattern per se, but the original charts are here and here. But I ended up changing them, adding filler for the blank spaces to make the knitting more even, but I didn’t properly rechart it. But you can see the results here (it’s an easy change).