Shhhh. it’s a secret!

(All stash yarns. There's some bright blue Bugga! and some Plucky Primo and some Twisted Owl and some Ultra Alpaca Fine and some ArtYarns "fades" and a String Quartet and more! and some leftovers. I'll pull them all and see who wants to play.)

3 April. Clue 1 finished. Started with Cosmos, a lightly speckled orange & navy on undyed from Twisted Owl -- the bottom skein in the top picture. (peachy cast is due to it being well after dark when I finished, and too lazy to turn on better lights.)

10 April. Halfway through the stripes of Clue 2, I decided that the berry either had too much contrast or not enough (no picture), and frogged back to Clue 1. Started Clue 2 over with navy, and like it much better.

11 April. Through section 1 of Clue 2. MC2 is Crescent Moon (also from Twisted Owl).

13 April. Finished Section 2 of Clue 2. Back to MC1 for section 3.

14 April. Finished Section 3 of Clue 2, using MC1 and CC.

20 April. Finished section 1 of Clue 2 using MC1.

21 April. Section 2 of Clue 3 finished, using MC2 and CC. Balls of yarn getting smaller, wrap getting larger. It’s not quite to the point where I need to stand on something to take a picture of it laid out on the floor…

27 April. Section 2 of Clue 4 finished. For Section 2, I kept the 4 row color stripe repeat, but used the 6 row texture repeat from Clue 3. (Due to a failure in mathing, I wound up with an extra four rows in Section 2.) For Section 3, I’m using both MC1 and MC2. MC2 is the ‘base’ color, for a 4row texture repeat, then 2 more rows, then the 2 row texture stripe in MC1. The math doesn’t work out quite right here either, but I’ll just leave off a 4row repeat at the end, and that will compensate for the extra repeat I had in Section 2.

28 April. Finished Clue 4. Picture to follow tomorrow.

3 May. Knitting finished. Clue 5 Section 1 is MC1 and CC. Sections 2 and 3 used MC2. Soaking as I type. After laying out, I think I probably should have used size 4 needles instead of the 5s, because the Twisted Owl really is a light fingering yarn.