So here's my current secret* project. I was working things out before it got packed away for the move.
I ordered one ball of each color of the organic cotton at Elann (plus one more of the darkest green to use up a voucher...so sensible), just to find out which I liked best and because you can't tell online, of course. I think the plan was to pick, order more, and send some back. Or maybe make a blanket.
Yeah, right. So I had these nine balls of yarn and had to come up with a project. A baby project because I'm not going to wear eight colors or even eight non-colors in one not-quite-sweater-sized, worsted-weight garment.
I didn't want horizontal stripes of v's, so I thought of knitting sideways and garter. I'd already done one haiku and another similar.
But then I started thinking of trees, and how the lines of stitches could look like bark. How I could do short-rows to make curves and figure out something for knots. Okay, that's fine for the brown, but I don't really see that working for the green, and there's not enough brown for the whole sweater, so...
Leaves, but not just a nice increasing symmetrical leaf pattern. No, the leaves have to start a different angles and in different places. Some must overlap (or appear to, not really planning any double thicknesses). Each leaf a different piece of string. Each leaf two ends to weave.
Oh, so there I was busily knitting leaves, making decisions on where, how, how often to increase and decrease. The gist--not symmetrically. And I didn't take notes.
*Not a secret I'm keeping or anything. Just, you know, the secret to doing it. If you know how, could you, you know, let me know.
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