I’ve been having a conversation with myself, recently. Don’t tell me you never have, sometimes you just need a good, long talk with yourself about your recent behavior. Me? I’ve noticed that all my WIPs are long-term projects. Such as my Scholar’s Jacket, which is proceeding pretty well, it’s up past the pocket split and headed towards the armpits but sometimes you need to break it up a bit. Get a touch of instant-ish gratification. No, I told myself, be a grown-up and finish something first! So I compromised with…me…and cast on a new project. However, since it’s the crochet version of my Sea Glass Tee, it’s related in a way to a current project! Which is what I told myself. The knit version, by the way, is also proceeding pretty well, it’s a few inches past the armpits (top-down construction) so I’m on the slog towards the bottom edge.
Regarding this version, which will definitely not be as quick as I think it will, but does use up stash at a quicker rate, I’ve chosen to take a leaf from Modern Daily Knitting‘s book and use a ‘juicy’ color and a ‘blah’ for contrast. Both the knit and crochet versions of this pattern are worked with two strands of yarn at a time, using one-by-one colorwork. I haven’t been swapping yarns every round like the pattern calls for, preferring to work a few rows in each pair of yarns for a striped effect. For the knit version I’ve keep a blue-ish tone in my left hand and a green in my right. With the crochet version I’ll have a muted shade (whatever pops out from my stash) paired with a bright colored yarn. I really should also knock off a few dishcloths, that really takes the edge off.