Grading the Lucky Baby Lopapeysa

The other night I went down a rabbit hole of sweater-grading math, and now I have a bunch of columns of mysterious numbers. There was some serious figgery-pokery going on (that's like jiggery-pokery, only with numbers): this is the math I would have to do to get the numbers I already have, so if I apply that math to these other numbers, hey presto! A knitting pattern that may or may not work, in five sizes in addition to the one I already have (what sizes? According to the Craft Yarn Council's chart, an improbable assortment indeed).

This would seem to be the time to call for test-knitters, but I'm hesitating. I should figure out the numbers for a raglan variant before I do that, and then I would have to commit to being able to answer questions over the next few weeks, and hey, it's early spring. My goldfish attention-span is way worse at this time of year and I could wander off at any minute. Maybe I should just test-knit all eleven sweaters myself to avoid having to deal with other people.

Yeah, because that requires less attention-span? Sigh, no: Because it carries less potential for disappointing people.

Oh right, this exists.

It's less contrasty
in real life

I seriously had no idea it had been that long since my last blog post.

So the WeatherCAL that Arja invited me to! Is making progress! I do fall behind occasionally, but I'm all caught up now. I've made a few changes to the color scheme – that jump from yellow to pink was just too abrupt, so I went in search of an orange. That is not the fashion color this season; no solid sock yarn at all, and the other types at that gauge were all danger-sign bright, so I bought a 100g skein of gradient orange-ish sock yarn and now I have to figure out how to use only the darkest bits. Fortunately orange is for 25°–27°, so the light should be good enough by then. If I were using it for a temperature likely to occur in January, I'd be sunk.

My progress so far

The colors now

 This is fun! I'm finding it takes about half an hour to crochet one square and attach it to the blanket. I really love the colors it is right now, but I sure hate what they represent: it's COLD! I mean okay, the lows happen in the middle of the night when I'm snug a-bed, but that little green square is my favorite one so far and I am looking forward to having more of them.

I promise to try and update a little more often than every two months from here on out.