I don’t often do KALs/CALs*, must less mystery ones. I generally don’t get my act together in time, and wouldn’t enjoy the pressure of trying to finish each clue in time. I can knit and crochet pretty quickly, but I can’t always find time. And often I have other priorities already lined up.
But I do sometimes lurk and watch a KAL/CAL in action. I really liked the look of the Stephen West Slipstravaganza, so in late 2020 I started planning out what colors I would like to use. I had several palettes in mind, and I love the La Bien Aimee range of colors but hadn’t had reason to get any since I did my sweater (which is still wearing beautifully I would add).
I would have waited longer to get my yarn, but La Bien Aimee had an awesome sale spring 2021 and I knew that with the quantities I was buying, I should jump on it. I shipped the yarn to AwesomeE though because I knew I wouldn’t get to it before we moved back.
I selected a deep green as the main color with contrast colors of light purple, a bright orange and pink, and a middle color of orange, pink, and purple. My thought it that with all the slipped stitches in green, it would look a bit like a bright sunset through dark evergreen trees.
I finally started working on it back in December, after I bought a new swift & nostepinne so I could hand wind balls (remember, my final box of craft stuff was still missing in the wilderness of USPS at this point).
I’m through three of the five sections, and I love how it’s going so far.
*Knit-a-long or Crochet-a-long