Friday, March 10, 2006

Stripes, Redux

Thank you so much to everyone who responded here and at knitty.com to my striping dilemma on Tubey. Opinions were very widely varied, which is nice, because it means I wasn't completely off the rocker in my original color scheme. I thought it was interesting the way one person's "the blue is too bright next to the burgundy" is another person's "the blue really pops next to the burgundy". I had several great suggestions to consider, and very welcome support to boot. After *lots* of swatching, here is what I settled on, only at the bottoms of the sleeves and body:

I realized that, while I love everyone's finished Tubeys, I am not much of a horizontal stripes person in garments I wear. And I really like the mottled grey of the Cascade 220, and I'm happy to have that make up most of the sweater. I really liked the charcoal next to the lavender, and I like the positioning at the bottom of the garment. We'll see how it looks when it's finished!

Reading: Same.

Writing: I did more reworking yesterday than production in terms of word count. Still at about 12,500.

Cooking: Nothing fun. I'm making hummus to bring to a friend's house today, though.

2 comments:

turtlegirl76 said...

Fabulous! It looks great!

Rachel said...

I think you made a good choice. Can't wait to see it all finished!