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A Good Bias II

Progress has been made on A Good Bias.  I've decided (as I have at least two balls with purple) to include the missing colour. It means that the back of the shrug will be fairly dark with purple bits. 
The first half is nearly done.  Just another couple of inches to go. As I've finished another ball, I've put this on hold. I will now work on the other half, up to the same point, and then decide on final colours for the last two inches.

Just about to start on the purple bit.

And socks.  I'm loving this Cherry Tree Hill yarn.  It's really pleasant to work with.
Sock #2 is now past the heel.

I was a bit worried about yardage - would I have enough for a woman's medium sock?  Comfortably.  I might just knit until I run out. 

Speaking of socks, here's a link to a sock pattern from Nancy Bush's new socks book, Vintage Socks, hitting yarn shops right now.

 

A Good Bias

Love the pattern.  Noro's Aurora is... challenging.  Knots. Irregular colour sequences.  Missing colour. 
I should have listened to Jill, who knitted this .  Jill's Missing Colour was a lime green (I think!).

Spot my missing colour.

 
A blue-violet, completely missing from the first ball.
And just look at the first four colours on the second ball. Dark grey, light grey, dark grey, light grey. Then violet.   
So I've cast on the second sleeve.  I've decided to match colours, at least for the sleeves. Jill also wasn't far wrong when she told me that she had little balls of Aurora scattered around, trying to match up the sleeves. 

So far, so good. 

Can you see how the lace pattern leans?  I'm not sure yet which sleeve with be on which side. I want to add an extra 10 sts to the bottom of the shrug, so I'll play around, see which way looks best (unless someone has some handy tips for biased fabrics and how they drape).
The colours aren't as bright as this. There's no orange or pink, for example, but rust and burgundy.  That's nighttime photography for you.