Crayons

Finished my colorful project. Every time I picked it up, it was like opening a new box of crayons. When I started looking for a pattern for this yarn, which was a bit of an impulse buy, I was astonished at the number of people who paired it with something else to "tone it down." I bought it for the colors, I had no intention of toning it down. This person did I really nice shawl out of a single skein of this yarn, but I avoid triangle shapes when I can. I found a better shape from the same designer, but swapped out freely to get what I wanted - yarn-over instead of knit-into-front-and-back increases, stockinette sections instead of garter. I did about an inch of a picot bind off before deciding I wasn't loving it, and used the double-chain bind off instead, for maximum stretch.

I then lost nearly all my love for it when it came to blocking. It was my brain, not the knitting. I pulled out all the pins and walked away for a few hours. When I came back it took me no time at all to block out the shape I wanted. The wait made the garter tab stick up more, but it will settle down with wear.

It's pretty clear that this is going to look fabulous over a black clergy shirt, so I have gifted it to KD.

Needles: US 6 (4.00 mm)
Yarn: the utterly wonderful Cascade Yarns Heritage Paints in Rainbow Mix, which I bought from the Simply Socks Yarn Company entirely so that I could get the free project bag on offer. In fact, I've just bought another skein to obtain a different bag; this could become a problem.
Pattern: improvised well past the point of just calling it modifications