Ch-ch-ch-changes…
Cue the David Bowie.
The color change I’ve been waiting for has arrived!
The steady increase of rows is fine, the regular appearance of eyelet increase rows helps break things up into manageable subgoals, but let’s face it: we were all waiting for the color change. I thought it would appear around row 57—the 5th eyelet increase row—but it took all the way until the 80th row for that hue to shift.
The color change isn’t particularly sudden—you do see hints of it showing up for a few rows and I found I couldn’t exactly pinpoint when blue became purple. It’s not a slow gradient, either—the shift completes in one or two rows. In a smaller piece, the change might be more subtle, but in these long rows it happens in a perfect rhythm. I get the marvelous sensation that this fiber and pattern were made for each other. Because they were.
It’s a lovely piece, and I’m enjoying myself immensely. I’ve got a holiday party December 8, and I’ve already decided this will be my accessory of choice. Will I get it done in time? You’ll just have to wait and see.
