You don’t have to make any color choices while knitting the seed stitch edge. So I kept going. I don’t love knitting purls into knits and knits into purls but I like how it looks so adding a bit more was a happy procrastination.
This evening I finally started into the colorwork on my Big Sur project.
I found myself going, Oh, I remember that green! That’s a remnant from Morgan’s afghan! Onto the needle it went. The gray from the dolphin in the ocean afghan? It’s part of a boulder this time. This ocean begins in Blue Jean blue.
I have the perfect orange for poppy flowers but it’s less perfect when held against the others. If I could find a slightly more muted shade… But it should be okay. Probably. And so the lupines got their first row and the poppies had to wait.
I was going to add side borders afterwards, but since the right third of the design is still the Blue Jean blue, I without thinking continued seed stitching to match the depth of the bottom before switching to stockinette. Got at long last to the other side and went–
–oh wait.
If I add a border later it won’t match the other side that’s now going to be part of it all along. I’ve done that before with two contrasting extra balls to untangle every single row and swore I wouldn’t do that again. But I just halfway did it again, and it’ll look funny if one side is added and the other not, so, hey, what’s one more to juggle, and besides it looks nicer that way anyway (a theme emerges).
So I had to stop, wind the next ball of that color, and add it in.
I can’t wait to see what it all grows up to look like.
But I’m going to get that poppy color right before it can go in.