I’m bummed. I just realized this morning that my legwarmers don’t look the same at all. They are both from variegated yarn, beautiful colors. One legwarmer, the colors are “pooling” (in a nice way, but pooling) and the other one the colors are distributed pretty well… not exactly randomly but the turquoise doesn’t touch the next round of turquoise.

I have been knitting back and forth between them as I must, to keep a good even gauge balance between the two. I really want them to be something like the same look, and they are very different.

I figured it out: one has 60 stitches and one has 59. That’s all it takes, apparently. I know exactly where I lost my stitch… I did a K2tog, YO row to make it fold over at the cuff line, and I didn’t do one YO at the end of the round. Voila! Unmatched legwarmers. The one I like least has more knitting done on it, of course. Eight inches of 60 stitches a round, has to be pulled out.

Then I will decrease by one and go from there. And then I pray my knitting gauge is about the same when I reknit, as it was when I knit the one I want to keep as-is. If they don’t match after three inches, I will have to rip both back to the beginning of the leg and start over on both, back and forth, so my gauge on each is matching. Cross fingers for me, OK?

Oh, double drat… I keep looking at them and changing my mind which I like best. That means I’m done with this project while my mind weighs the options. And I finished the Fuzzy Feet yesterday except for fulling/shrinking them.

So now I think I need a new project. Again. A brainless one, or I’ll stop once more. I did start to make Brian some sox out of Confetti a week or so ago, maybe I’ll take those out… or take the time to wind some fat yarn into balls so I can make more warm winter sox for myself. My feet just stay cold for months this time of year, it’s just awful!

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