The search for accurate colour representation.

Before I did anything yesterday, I did a try on of the Kauni sweater.

It's perfect.  I thought it was but it is always nice to be certain.  

I bumped up the colour saturation on this next photo so you can get a better idea of just how pretty this Kauni is.

This is much closer to life than most of the photos you have seen of this sweater.  It feels so completely me and the fit is just lovely.  

I am deciding on the hem now.  I would like to go with a split hem so I can drop the back a bit.  It works nicely to keep the chill off my lower back, no matter what fashion trends say.  I have also done some thinking about sleeves.  My accidental sleeves on my Lusk with a puffier bit at the ribbed cuff may be repeated here.  Still debating this. 

I'm going to work on my yellow sweater today I think.  I'd like to get this one to the part where I join sleeves.  I should be able to get there but you never know.  I might spend time on my beguiling neon blanket.  

Not today but soon.

I had a good working with yarn sort of day even though the rest of the day was kind of a pain.  And any enjoyment of using a dishwasher again  is totally and completely gone in a haze of its working but I hate doing dishes.  Harumph.  Time to go on to the better things.

I seem to get in a stripe a day more or less.  The chairpad grows and that will be enough.  It's not fancy knitting but I have to say, using my first completed one along with the felted sweater pads makes a real difference.  I don't really understand why but it's wool.  Wool seems to make life better.

Big news on my sweater. 

I am finally into the next colour stripe.  It shouldn't feel like such a big deal but it is.  Pretty purple slipping into green.  

For blogging these projects feel a bit boring to blog. I am going to have to see what I can do to improve that for my mental health.  There is some yarn to go back into stash and a bit of yarn to pull out so I am feeling like a good, deep stash dive.  Not today but soon.   

Work work.

Another bright sunny morning.  It's great but the temp for the day is only supposed to be 18 C.  That is not going to help the crops and I really feel for farmers.  

I had a great day yesterday.  It somehow resulted in no visible change to either of the active sweaters though there was good progress on my No. 2 chairpad.

  The working edge is at the bottom in this photo. I really am happy with the colours of this one. The crisp greens are the perfect offset to the roses.  When I was digging in my box o' yarn, I picked the greens with no olive cast.    The roses were anything pink ish.  

It feels really strange but it's getting hard to sort colours.  The box is far from empty but these are all the full balls I have left.  

17 balls.  That doesn't divide by 8 evenly.  I will get two more chair pads from these, and then there is a big bag of partial balls, left over from knitting the Flea sweater.  I am going to do those completely scrappy, still using a melange of colours of course, but using a ball up and then moving on to the next colour.  

Uggg.  I just found 3 more full balls.  

I am going to make chair pads till this yarn box is empty.  I am not really calling this fun work but it is needed work.  It's almost driving me to knitting dishcloths, which I may yet do.  I do have some more cotton in the wool closet.