Something I find interesting about striped knits (or in this case, crochet) is how quickly the dynamic changes when you add a new colour.
I absolutely love these four stripes together, don't you? The effect is a bit 1970s office drab, but so calming. I also loved the first two colours (the green looks wrong here, but you know what I mean I hope)...
And the next two colours...
Even though those two separate combos are completely different moods. Summer forest and winter frost.
I'm kind of sorry to think of adding the next two stripes...
But I'll do it, and when I finish with the rest of them I'll miss the calm of the first four but love the warmth and controlled chaos of the ten-stripe collection I settled on.
This is going to be my second-ever crochet blanket and I was so determined not to mess up like I did with the first one, I started that first green stripe easily ten times, including the time I ripped back when I'd gotten as far as four stripes because I had to accept it wasn't going to be wide enough.
And when I did get it wide enough, I started weighing the yarn before and after each stripe (which I am making wider this time to reduce the amount of ends-running-in I had to do last time) to be sure there wouldn't be any yarn shortages at the end.
Thank goodness too, because I only have one ball of this colour!
And I will need at least an extra ten grams of it.
I was very lucky in that Wool Warehouse still had some stock with the same dye lot. But it's hard to justify spending ten dollars on shipping for four dollars of yarn, so I might've accidentally bought yarn for yet another blanket. This is going to be my Year of the Blanket, mark my words! Though I might do a different stitch for that one. We'll see.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend with sunshine and no yarn shortages! And lots of colours you like together.
