Using a hand dyed yarn that I made with some Wilton dye. The delphinium blue breaks in the dye pot, plus I did a process that produces a gradient.

I don’t think my dyed skein was a full skein.

I cast on with the darkest color and the yarn eventually changes down to the natural cream color. I’ll then switch to the regular yarn.

Loving it so far. Here’s my current changes:

I didn’t do the neck band as high as the pattern.

Gauge change (I don’t like this yarn too loose).

I’m mirroring the increases (M1L, M1R)

I plan on adding some waist shaping (and maybe bust darts) and I’m leaning towards a hem rather than the rolled hem.

Update 7/4/2013: the hand dyed skein is done and now is the boring part: nothing but the cream yarn in st. st. At least most of it’s in the round (only purling will be for the short row bust darts I plan on adding). The biggest problem is that this is not the only skein I dyed like this and I want to cast that sweater on too!

Update 7/27/2013: ya, as expected, once the fun bit was done (the color section), the boring cream section has been… boring. Getting past the yoke seemed like a huge milestone! So the yoke is split for the sleeves and I’m working even (I did start the bust short rows, but then did some more research and decided I wasn’t putting them in the right place). So even knit rounds in cream yarn. YAWN! (especially with an other skein I want to play with that I’m doing a similar sweater!)

Update 01/02/2014: new year, back to the basics? This was put aside for other projects as I knew that I have to frog back and re-do the short rows (again). I placed them too low and they aren’t neat enough for my taste. Just need the fortitude to rip back to the armholes (again) to re-work it.