The Sheep Heid hat pattern is made for nine colors of Shetland wool. I have six colors of Sunshine wool. Figuring out how to divide up and order the lesser amounts of colors is a huge challenge. I have been stumped on how to best showcase the beautiful pattern and Sunshine's beautiful yarn.
One of the "rules" of Fair Isle knitting is there are only two colors alternating on each row, so as you knit across/around, you may use brown and gray on one row, gray and white on the next... Then, to complicate things, there are sheep heads and horns and other geometric patterns working throughout from bottom to top. Then it hit me. It's a puzzle!
Luckily the Puzzle Master is here this weekend :-D.
Janbaby will have me knitting in no time!
1 comment:
Terrific! And good luck on the knitting ;)
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