Doing test knitting is a mixed blessing! You get the pattern free, ahead of time. That’s it. People ask if you get free yarn. NO. This past June I wanted to test a summer tee (Anitra Vest) designed by Elenor Mortenson. It was quite complex, so I opted out. But I felt bad about it, so I signed up for another: Jul. It will be out later in October.
It is also complicated, but I am now on to the plain knitting. Here is the yoke:
This really pushed all my knitting skills!
I like it fine but for one problem that has ruined this for me. There is a very obvious color break right under the yoke. Yep. The “hand-dyed yarn” problem! I was already carrying three colors in the yoke, so I didn’t want to carry a 4th to alternate skeins. I started doing that after the yoke. The new skeins have an orange cast vs the gray cast of the yoke. It’s hard to see it in the pictures but is quite obvious IRL. I will finish it, but I am very disappointed.
I have decided to make it into a summer tee because of the lightweight fabric and my desire to minimize the effort invested. ::le sigh::
