I’ve seen this pattern around for quite some time, and it always seems to catch my eye, so when I found this gorgeous mini set, I decided to go for it. These colors remind me a lot of an Amish style quilt that I made many years ago which I love (see bottom pictures), so they seemed a perfect match for this pattern.

It took me a while to decide in what order to use them. If following the pattern, then one of the colors gets used 5 times & 2 of them only twice. I didn’t particularly have a favorite, so it was difficult to decide. Plus, since it starts so narrow and then gets wider, it was sort of hard to wrap my head around. I wanted to use them more equally, so I ended up starting with the lightest color and repeating them in sequence 1 – 10, starting over rather than reversing each time through. Assuming that I’d have enough yarn, I calculated that this would use them each 3 times, with the exception of the first two at the tip being used 4 times.

Now in retrospect, I think I might have started at a different place in the sequence, because when wrapped the way I’ll probably wear it, you can only see the greens and blues from the front. I kind of wish you could see some of the purples too from that viewpoint. In fact, when worked up, I think I like the #10 purple best, the way it looks against the black. But that’s ok. It’s all beautiful, and you can see that from other angles.

This was an enjoyable knit - sort of that Goldilocks area of not too easy, not too hard. Other than the color sequence, the only other variance from the pattern that I did was to do a cable cast on instead of the recommended long tail. I just don’t care for the long tail cast on, and it was few enough stitches that I didn’t think it would make that much difference, whichever method I used.

I chose not to carry the main color up the side, because it was visible to me & may have been less elastic. This did create a lot more ends to weave, but I kept up with it pretty well as I went along, so it really wasn’t bad. I also did not do the optional extra yarn over along the upper edge.

Somehow, I must have dropped the last stitch of the bind off! I don’t know how I did that, but I noticed it when I was blocking it that the very corner stitch seemed loose from the edge. I can’t imagine that I never noticed this when weaving in the final end, but it was just hanging there! So I just secured it with a regular sewing needle and thread and called it done. Whew! That could have been bad.

I also blocked this wrong. I blocked the short end at a square 90-degree angle to the long end, whereas according to the schematic, it looks like it’s supposed to be at a 45-degree angle instead. I only noticed this when I went to see how my measurements compared to the pattern. I hadn’t really paid attention to the schematic until then, and by that point it was all laid out and pinned, so I just left it. I think it’s fine the way it is, and just as beautiful either way.

I had quite a bit of yarn left over. I could have continued on with more repeats, but I think it’s a good size. This is how my usage breaks down for the 20 gr minis:

Color 1 (Green): 13.1 Grams/60.26 Yards/0.655 Skeins
Color 2: 14 Grams/64.4 Yards/0.7 Skeins
Color 3: 11.2 Grams/51.52 Yards/0.56 Skeins
Color 4: 11.9 Grams/54.74 Yards/0.595 Skeins
Color 5: 12.7 Grams/58.42 Yards/0.635 Skeins
Color 6: 13.4 Grams/61.64 Yards/0.67 Skeins
Color 7: 13.9 Grams/63.94 Yards/0.695 Skeins
Color 8: 14 Grams/64.4 Yards/0.7 Skeins
Color 9: 10.5 Grams/48.3 Yards/0.525 Skeins
Color 10 (Purple): 11.6 Grams/53.36 Yards/0.58 Skeins