Someday a great grandchild will ask, What did hitting the gas mean?

So. No, I don’t actually have more of that–I used the rest up on my brother’s afghan, which is fine, and when I restocked my Rios via a Littleknits sale, Solis was not, in fact, one of the colors I bought. That’s right, I was going to and they were out at the time.

The plan was to have the cliff in the forefront in an older, lighter, and more highly varied version of Solis, then use darker gradations as the next cliffs reach further back. That wasn’t working either: the skein for that first one wasn’t quite enough to finish the job and the ones in the store were too starkly off to plunk in the front. That colorway has evolved over the years into lots of dark green with some dark blue smoothed in–the flashes of light aqua and camouflage green are out of there. No medium green nor blue in the base color anymore.

I went looking.

I finally found someone on Ravelry who had nearly a half dozen skeins of the vintage of the one I was using listed under For sale or trade. The pictures were very promising, and I could be highly flexible. I’d stopped at a point that left some mixing of rows possible for blending.

I could make all the cliffs the same, or nearly. Fine by me.

She was happy to have someone who actually wanted them, but warned me about the shipping, following up with their postal chart to make sure I really wanted to go through with it.

You do what ya gotta do. I’m two dozen hours of work into this thing. Just don’t let any kangaroos stow away in there and we’re good.

Meantime, my project after the coastal one was going to be my brother’s Christmas afghan, monocolor per his request.

I’ve now finished the seed stitch edge and started in on the pattern. It breaks my rules to have two major projects at once but it breaks them worse not to be able to work on one. And monocolor is way easier to pick back up and continue on later than color work is.

So somebody on the other side of the world is taking the time to box, label, get to the post office, and see that part of her older stash off in order to rescue my project, and I am very very grateful.