Colours Unite!
Finished
July 2, 2020
August 2, 2020

Colours Unite!

Project info
Textures Unite by Stephen West
Knitting
Neck / TorsoShawl / Wrap
myself
186 x 63 cm (small)
Needles & yarn
US 3 - 3.25 mm
US 4 - 3.5 mm
US 5 - 3.75 mm
1,322 yards
Easyknits.co.uk Dusted Dreams 75/25
5 yards in stash
0.3 skeins = 139.4 yards (127.5 meters), 30 grams
Multicolored
Easyknits.co.uk
August 22, 2019
Easyknits.co.uk Tribblettes
41 yards in stash
0.12 skeins = 55.1 yards (50.4 meters), 6 grams
Red-orange
Easyknits.co.uk
April 6, 2018
Easyknits.co.uk Twinkle
0 yards in stash
0.94 skeins = 413.3 yards (377.9 meters), 94 grams
Red-orange
Easyknits.co.uk
April 6, 2018
Garnstudio DROPS Kid-Silk
0 yards in stash
0.26 skeins = 56.6 yards (51.7 meters), 6 grams
7258
Red
Kaki AB
October 19, 2015
ITO Shio
63 yards in stash
0.22 skeins = 115.5 yards (105.6 meters), 8 grams
k145h1635c
Purple
dibadu
December 28, 2016
Manduzana Sock
none left in stash
0.28 skeins = 130.1 yards (119.0 meters), 28 grams
Pink
Manduzana
June 14, 2019
Manos del Uruguay Alegría
22 yards in stash
0.46 skeins = 204.7 yards (187.2 meters), 46 grams
Red-purple
Tangled Yarn
November 20, 2017
Schoppel-Wolle 6 Karat
33 yards in stash
0.15 skeins = 98.4 yards (90.0 meters), 15 grams
223956
Red
Nysta
October 20, 2016
Schulana Kid-Seta Lux
32 yards in stash
0.48 skeins = 109.7 yards (100.3 meters), 12 grams
4196
Purple
Yllotyll in Uppsala, Uppsala län
February 8, 2017
Notes

General
Knitting the smaller version.

Section 1: Sultan & Caracas, Section 2: Red & Shockingly Pink, Section 3: Rum Punch & Plum+Prune, Section 4: Shockingly Pink, Section 5: Sultan, Section 6: Red & Plum+Prune & Shockingly Pink, I-cord: Tribblettes in Sultan+Kid-Silk in Red

TCKAL cast-on post: #89

Using Grumperina's method for cabling without a cable needle.

Mods

  • Section 1: colour A Sultan, colour B Caracas, 3.25mm needles, A 48g/192m, B 46g/186m,
  • Section 2: colour C Pink, colour D Red, 3.25mm needles, picked up two st in each selvedge st (one in each leg), GSR, C 14g/59m, D 10g/60m,
  • Section 3: colour E Punch, colour F Plum+Prune, 3.75mm needles, E 30g/127m, F 8+6g/67+67m,
  • Section 4: colour C Pink, 3.5mm needles, GSR, C 8g/34m,
  • Section 5: colour A Sultan, 3.5mm needles, A 46g/184m,
  • Section 6: using three colours instead of two and knitting both rows of second stripe, colour D Red, colour F Plum+Prune, colour C Pink, 3.25mm needles, GSR, D 5g/30m, F 4+3g/33+33m, C 7g/30m,
  • I-cord: colour G Sultan+Red, 3.5mm needles, 6+7g/51+51m.

Timeline
2020-07-11: Finished Section 1.
2020-07-12: Started Section 2.
2020-07-14: Finished Section 2.
2020-07-15: Started Section 3.
2020-07-17: Not satisfied with how I’ve combined the colours so frogged Section 2 & 3.
2020-07-18: Started over with Section 2.
2020-07-19: Finished Section 2 and started Section 3 again.
2020-07-22: Finished Section 3.
2020-07-23: Knit Section 4 and started on Section 5.
2020-07-26: Finished Section 5 and started Section 6.
2020-07-28: Finished Section 6.
2020-07-29: Started on i-cord.
2020-08-02: Finished!

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  • Originally queued: June 5, 2020
  • Project created: July 2, 2020
  • Finished: August 4, 2020
  • Updated: August 30, 2020
  • Progress updates: 24 updates