My Sleeves Actually Match....Almost

I can hardly believe I pulled it off, knowing my lack of skill at such things. The sleeves for my Kauni are done and they actually match......almost. They are spot on all the way down, until the cuff and there is a slight difference in the color of the purples. I am not complaining, but puzzled how that could have happened.

I have now picked up around the neck band and am using yellow and purple/red. There ended up being no yellow in the sleeves, but plenty in the body. So yellow on the front bands is my plan as well. As I wandered through Ravelry, I noticed that many people took much time matching the sleeves to the body, manipulated the colors so the color runs were shorter, but I just knit through the sleeves as the colors came. Not sure I would have picked the Denver Broncos color combination of orange/blue or the Xmas red/green, but I am not unhappy the way they turned out.

I tried duplicate stitches over the red stitches which resulted from a sudden color splice, but was definitely unhappy with the result of that. I pulled the stitches out and will try another technique for it, that I saw on Ravelry. Gotta love Ravelry for getting your questions answered, even before you ask them.

Progress on Kauni

I am at about mid forearm on the first sleeve of my Kauni cardigan. I thought the orange would never stop, but now it is red going to purple and blue. I can't seem to finish the two original balls of yarn which were 150 grams each in order to wind the new ball into two, to finish the 2nd sleeve and front/neck bands. These balls are going on forever- maybe they are magic. I also cut the steeks yesterday to try on the sweater. It is a good thing I made the medium and not the small because I may need to make the front bands a little wider so it is not too tight at the hips.

I finished the 1st sock of Alison's fixation. I am not really motivated to start the 2nd as I really do not like the yarn much. Her birthday is in two weeks, but she will be here in early April. I will shoot for then to have them finished.

I started the Slippery socks from Knitty.com and they are very pattern intensive with lots on single cables and slip stitches. I like the yarn I am using even though the pattern is getting a little lost in the varigation of colors.

Yesterday I drove around with the top down on the Miata and today we had a blizzard. You gotta love Denver weather........ At least I know that Spring is around the corner, even if March is our snowiest month!