Well, I have made some progress on my Arachne this week, and finally remembered to take some pictures outside in the daylight!
I have been focusing on it in the evenings, mostly because there is a storm of other projects coming up and I wanted to get a good start.
I am trying something a bit different with the colorwork. I did just regular stranded colorwork for the first 25 rows or so. Then once the gaps between the radiating strands started getting so long, I just worked in individual strands of the yarn for each radiating line of stitches and am doing them as intarsia. I left a ball of the web yarn attached at the first radiating strand at the start of the row, and when there’s a row that uses a lot of the web yarn, then I do that row as colorwork. Hopefully that makes sense. Here is a photo to illustrate!
It does make for quicker progress definitely! The difficulty with that is it will very likely affect the tension. if it’s just a little bit – no big deal. If it’s a lot, it may mean ripping back. Which I don’t want to do, but if it’s needed, rather sooner than later! Pretty soon I’m going to thread some waste yarn through the working row and try it on, and also see how the tension is overall.
Tomorrow the Temple of Flora KAL start, and then next week the Palm Canyon KAL starts, though I’m still on the fence about that one. So unless I decide the heck with those two things, my progress is definitely going to slow down. But hey, it’s 6 months to Halloween!
Quite A Yarn 
Beautiful work and you keep up with an impressive number of KALs!
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The other two aren’t out yet – we’ll see if I can do it!
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That’s looking great! It will be interesting to see what happens with the intarsia. I’m enjoying catching the yarn in the back with the stranding.
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Thank you! I’m happy with the colors and the yarns. I like that method of catching the floats too – much easier than twisting things around or the other things I have tried over the years.
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Oh it looks beautiful!! I am going to wait and see what you think about this method. I just might use it:) I still haven’t even knit a swatch yet. But I have a plan and that’s something:)
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Thank you! I think stranding makes sense for the first bit when you really are using both colors pretty frequently. But when you start increasing and the radiating strands get much farther apart, that’s a lot of stranding. I plan to try it on this weekend at some point, so should have an idea of it is working or not soon! And yes, a plan is definitely a lot!
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It looks wonderful! I might copy your ideal of doing insartia when i get that far. I think that is a wonderful idea.
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I hope it doesn’t drastically change the fabric. Maybe it will be a good transition between the heavy colorwork area and the plain knitting? Here’s hoping!
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Very cool. I hope to take up knitting one day. 🙂
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You should give it a try! It’s interesting and fun 🙂
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That’s very cool. It’s going to be beautiful!
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Thank you! I hope so 🙂
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