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Day 316 This is the latest on the scarf, I'm just over half-way through another section.



I like this but it doesn't blend as easily as I thought it would with the previous block, the blue in the previous block isn't as prominent as I'd envisaged. But it sets the scene for the remainder, all the rest will have blue tones.

Day 251 Half-way through another scarf section - I love this wool:



Not only are the colours fabulous, it's really easy to knit with, the yarn doesn't twist itself or split or do any wierd stuff that wool does when it's not supposed to.

Day 196 A third of the way through the current wool colour:



I really like this colour combo. Primary colours but not over-bright, plus the purple and the off-white, and I like how they blend with the previous block.

And shame that Birmingham didn't win the inagural UK City Of Culture title. But Derry is a cool place, I hope they do well from it.

Day 148 Thought it was high time I cracked on with some more knitting. I'm now ten rows into the next block of colour, 20 to go.



It looks like a bit of a jump from the previous colour here, but they both have orange tones in them and this was the nicest I could find with orange or terracotta tones. The rest should be a smoother transition, even though some of the colours are rather vivid.

Day 108 A quick round-up of the new wool I bought recently, including the current scarf colour.



Am almost half-way into the current colour, because I can only really do two rows at a time before lack of concentration starts creeping in, I'm trying to do some knitting as soon as I'm up or when I get home, cos then I'm usually ready to do some more later in the day. If I manage to do two sets of two rows every weeknight and at least two sets each day at the weekend, that would mean I can complete a section (30 rows) in a week. It's a high target but one I'm aiming for, even if I don't quite manage it, because the sooner the scarf is done, the sooner I can look to knit something for the baby and to knit more little hats for the Innoncent Smoothies Help The Aged thing.

Day 93 Am half-way through another section of the scarf, and it's finally starting to show the heather-purple it promised when I saw the wool in the shop:



Looking at what I have left and how to blend everything so there are no jumps of colour, it appears I will need a terracotta or brown mix. All my remaining balls of wool have some blue tones except for one which is white, lemon and peach. A bit of a jump from this one to that, but another ball with terracotta and earth tones would work. Also if possible, a yellow-gold mix to follow that? One of the blue ones has ink blue and bright yellow as the main two colours, so something that would lead into that one a bit smoother would be a good idea. Will need to check out who's open on Monday - the little shop in town has a bigger range but is more likely to be closed for the Bank Holiday than Hobbycraft, which doesn't have the variety but is unlikely to be shut. I also need to finalise how many panels I'm going to have on the completed item. The final panel will be the same as the first (the only one which gets repeated) so I could have a blue-purple mix added in as the penultimate one. If I buy three extra colours, that will take me to 20 colours (21 sections).

Day 46 About halfway through the variegated green, and hopefully the crisis that struck in the first few rows won't happen again. I had to undo a couple of rows.



I think I'll appreciated this section more when it's done. I'm a bit disappointed that the purple isn't more prominent, and the wool has a tendency to unravel its fibres somewhat - not seriously unravelled, but enough to slow me down while knitting. Hopefully the two other balls of wool I bought in this range won't give me the same problem, but if they do, at least their colours are more equally ranged.

Day 30 We went into town today, bought some kitchen stuff, and I bought some variegated wool. Have decided the scarf will be almost all variegated wool, mainly because it's so nice I can't resist it, especially when it's in the bargain bin.

Day 24 already 20 rows in to my new colour! I do 30 rows of each colour, got the next one picked out ready but still have plans to buy new colours, particularly new solid colours.



I like this combo because it looks like delicate fun ice-cream sundae colours. Sweet.

Day 11 A closer look into my knitting bag. Lots of variegated colour.