30/5/2016: It is blocking, and it is HUGE! Had to improvise a bit to get it on my blockingboard, which has always been big enough, but is way too small for this.

29/5/2016: It’s finished! And it is nice and big. Love the pattern, love the yarn, but… Still not sure about the colour. I will block it first, maybe that will make the pattern and the beads stand out more. But if not, I think I will dye it. never done that before, but with cold water dye not much can go wrong, I hope?

27/5/2016: Yes, on to the last chart! Hope I will have enough yarn though…

23/5/2016: Finished that final repeat of chart two and started chart three and the first row of beads!

21/5/2016: Finished chart two, but decided to do one more repeat…

18/5/2016: I’ve done 3 repeats of chart two. I love the yarn, but I’m not so sure about the colour yet… I have a love/hatebrelation with variagated yarns: they are so gorgeous on the skein! But when knitted… Not so nice at all. The ones with very long repeats or little colour variation are ok. But in this one the colours range from nearly white to very dark purple and some red in between.

13/5/2016: 98 grams to start with. Changed from 4mm to 4.5mm after knitting chart two once.