tenacious |təˈnā sh əs|
adjective
not readily letting go of, giving up, or separated from an object that one holds, a position, or a principle
• not easily dispelled or discouraged; persisting in existence or in a course of action

Well, I guess I'm not a total slacker, I must have some degree of tenacity, because I am embarking on a new leg in my sweater journey. Let me tell you, I have fought going down this next road to reach sweater completion. I even set it aside for a whole nights worth of knitting, and abandoned another night of knitting to go to The Yarnery and seek counsel about how to proceed. If you have a keen eye you will see from my picture what the problem is. Hand dyed yarn can vary quite a bit, even in the same dye lot. I have two skeins each of yarns that match themselves, but not each other. In the light of day the difference is remarkable. So how did you proceed? Well, the answer is that you rip out the sweater that is half way done and start over again knitting two rows of one then two rows of the other, alternating back and forth for the whole sweater. Yup, that is the only acceptable solution. The other possibility was to use the darker color on the back and have a sweater that was light in front and dark in back. I never would have been happy with that solution. So after I took this picture last night I undid the entire sweater and tonight I will begin Elysium 4.0. Like I said in an earlier post, it is a good thing this yarn isn't prone to pilling or fuzzing. This is a lot of re-working for any yarn! And this just reinforces the importance of loving the yarn enough that you are willing to go to such lengths to have something made with it! I may have to revise my dream of wearing this by April...