mitten

I really wanted to include some cables on this, just for the fun of knitting them, but I decided that the varigated yarn would probably fight with them too much, so plain stockinette it is.  I made the cuff on Saturday, and the cuff looked great, yay!

I started on the hand and I got huge ugly pooling in two places.  It's the red; this yarn has long runs of red with much shorter runs of all the other colors (blue, purple, yellow, green, and the muddy in-between shades).

So I ripped it out and started the hand again.  I began the thumb gusset increases sooner, both for fitting issues and to perhaps help distribute the colors better.  Then, when it looked like a pool of red was forming, I broke the yarn to remove a small segment of red and started knitting again with another color.  I did this three times.  I don't like the idea of now having all those ends to deal with, but it's the only way I could figure out to manually control the pooling.

Now I'm liking it much better!  The colors are way more blended.

This picture is crappy.  It doesn't look like real life at all. 



There is way to much blue here.  The yellow is really much more orange-y golden (it looks almost white here), there is more green, and the whole effect is a much warmer tone.  I tried to adjust the colors for a while, but I didn't want to put too much time into an in-progress picture anyway.

I'm anticipating having to manually adjust the colors a few more times as I go up the hand, but I hope it's not too many.