Completing the Color Shift

The Summer Shiver Shelter slinks along in my bag these days, having progressed leaps & bounds since last I posted.  From the meager inch or two past cast-on:

• the back has grown down to the armholes
• the fronts have been picked up & worked down
• fronts & back have been joined
• another 2 inches of below-armhole knitting has been done.

I'm not tired of seed stitch.  Yet.  I promise.  Once the bra-line level has been achieved, I'll sort out exactly what kind of stitch pattern I'll want below the (probable) eyelet band for ribbon-threading.  The likelihood of the original chevron pattern is minimal. 

Perhaps a series of doubling block sizes?  As seed stitch, the pattern is squares that are 1x1.  So maybe work a basket weave pattern below of 2x2, then 4x4, up to maybe 16x16?  It'd work well with minor tinkering of stitch numbers to get a 256(!) or 240...  Something to think about.

Anyway, coming from the first official try-on, the amount of ease is fairly good, as far as I can tell.  The armholes could stand to be 1.5 to 2 inches higher than they are, but that's not going to get fixed at this point.  Maybe it will, since the ends are already cut, so the fronts won't have the Potential Tangle Factor they did previously.

On the Shop Front, the owner asked that I sort out a felted bag using one or two skeins of Cascade 220.  She handed me a picture of something similar to what she wanted & off I went.  Mine has an optional squiggle-yarn addition, and some 2x2 basket weave blocks to lend a light amount of texture to the base & the top of the bag.

Knitting on mine has been completed, even a bit of picking & poking to get the squiggles to poke mostly to the outside.  Now, to felt at the nearest opportunity & take it back to the shop.

Also for the shop, I've been working on a summer scarf out of this season's Vogue Knitting: the Chevron Scarf (#24).  Worked in a variegated pastel of Araucania's Ruca, which is a DK weight yarn made out of sugar cane fiber.

The pattern has you knitting the scarf in long strips of chevrons of 300+ stitches on a row, so each row takes ages & ages to complete.  The satisfaction of completing one strip can't be adequately described... ^_^