Love is Blind...

...and disappointment often follows.

I have hit a wall on Twisty Turns:

The first skein was wonderful knitting.  I loved the color combination and knitting the scarf.  Even though it was looking increasingly likely that the purple/orange/maroon combo was looking, overall, a little too much on the orange side to be my best color, I couldn't help but be enthralled with the colors and how they were knitting up.

Then I started the second skein  (left above).  The first think I noticed was a little bit of green that I hadn't seen in the first skein.  Then the differences became more obvious.

I checked the labels, I know I bought them from the same hook at the Decadent Fibers booth.  The labels are the same.  There had been three skeins, the first skein, the orange purple was the one I fell in love with first.  I picked the companion that looked most similar in the relatively dull light inside the barn at Rhinebeck.  Perhaps I should have picked the second two skeins and put the first back, but it was the first, the orange/purple, that I truly love.

Will it work out?

1.  I should have knitted alternately from each skein and I could rip out and do that still.

2.  It is possible that the way the wrap goes together they will look OK in the end, I think the entire wrap will end up with a wide row of skein 1 next to a wide row of skein 2 all along the wrap but I don't have the directions here.  I left them at Yarn Central last week.  I think I seam the thing along the length to make the twisty wrap. -- but I'm not sure if I like them together or not, sometimes I think yes, but when I look at the photo it is a definite NO.

3.  The problem isn't just the color.  The  first skein was pretty uniform in thickness throughout.  The second skein is much variable and most of it is much thinner than the first skein.  I do not think I am getting the same gauge.  But then again, it might not matter.

4.  Perhaps I should just wrap the whole thing in a plastic bag and throw it in the back of a closet and forget about until some unspecified future date.

If I don't work on Twisty Turns, what am I going to do at group tonight???

Comments

[Gina]

Oh no...could this be foreshadowing of woes that I will experience with Twisty Turns? I'm already bored beyond belief with the 366gazillion rows of ribbing. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Maybe something new (and better) will catch our eyes at YC tonight. I need a travel project.