In Vino Veritas et... In Knitting, Peace

I cannot stay faithful to one project at a time.  At least not any project lasting more than a day or two, and definitely not without a deadline involved.  My fingers & mind need more variety, need something to break up the monotony.

To that end, I keep on hand enough yarn to be able to work an entire project at any point.  In several different weights, colors, and contents.  Lurking, waiting, watching from various nooks in my apartment.  Not counting the oddments collected because they call to me for some unnamed future project.

Earlier this week, I finally needed something new.  Now.  In larger yarn.  Granted, bouncing between lace weight & sock yarn is fun.  Hours working with the lace makes the sock yarn feel like worsted for a bit.  After working on the stockings for a bit, your entire grip & tension must change when going back to lace.

Rummaging in one piece of furniture revealed four skeins of Dream in Color Classy in the colorway "In Vino Veritas".  Worsted weight yarn in a darker red that lightly varies from purple to brick, 250 yards to a skein.  I had wound up two skeins at Knit in early September in preparation/planning for the need to pick up & go, as I knew ahead of time that I'd want to change skeins every other row to keep the color from pooling.

I knew that I wanted a pullover, and wanted to do something from my copy of fitted knits by Stefanie Japel.  After a bit of wobbling & research on Ravelry, I decided on the Textured Tunic. 

Mods involved so far:

• Gauge change from aran weight yarn on a size 10 needle (14sts/4") to worsted weight yarn on a size 9 needle (16sts/4")
• No shoulder slit
• Garter ridge at neckline

I cast on at the start of this week & have chugged along whenever mindless non-class knitting is needed.  The gauge change is such that all I had to do was tinker with the numbers for cast-on at the neck and follow the rules for the largest size to get a 38" bust.


Tonight, I got to the first purl band, where later I'll leave the sleeve stitches on other yarn while I continue on the torso.  The stitches are spread out over two circs to picture, as well as to try on & make sure that the tinkering with gauge width-wise also translates to proper tinkerage height-wise.  (She shoots, she scoooooooores!!)

The plan is to leave one of the two skeins behind on a sleeve so that later the other end can be used as the other half of the other sleeve.  Yeah, three skeins on a sweater at once.  Not sure how I feel about that yet.

In theory, it's awesome, because it'll smooth out any wonkiness in the color change from shoulder to sleeve.  In practice, it may end up being a royal PITA.  We shall see.