The linen knitting continues.
The little 50g balls go pretty quickly. The knitting looks loose and crinkly, but I have this previously blocked swatch to remind me of how swingy, smooth, and drapey it’s going to be.
Do I have it in me to carry on? MAYBE! This is my ”for fun” knitting, which has nothing to do with work or publishing a pattern. That means there’s no deadline, and no reason to finish it…unless I really want to. We’ll see if I get distracted! I do have a design to work on, with this yarn…
Do you know the trick for checking your tonal contrast? Put your camera phone into monochrome, and that will give you a good idea if your yarns are contrasty enough. On an iPhone, use the carat at the top to change the menu at the bottom. The 3 overlapping circles (middle picture) indicate color choices. Swipe right until you get to MONO (that’s what it says in the 3rd picture; sorry it’s fuzzy). You can also do this after taking a picture too, using the edit feature when looking at your pictures. You’ll get something that looks like this.
Here I have a light and two mid-range. The gray surprised me; I thought the gold would be darker of the two mid-tones. I think I’ll aim to use each of the kettle dyes with the speckle, but not necessarily with each other. I don’t really know yet, though. Swatching is in order! I think it’s either a shawl or a shawlish cowl like Cosette, and I’d like it to have a bee theme, because of the honey colors.
Onward!
PDXKnitterati 
That ‘swatch’ of your wondrous white knitted lace is .. frightening, Michele ! How long did it take to knit ???
The swatch? I don’t remember how long that took; it was back in 2019, I think. At that time, I decided that I would design with a much heavier yarn, to make it faster! But I still have all this skinny linen, so now I’m just using it while my mind chews on other stuff…
Wow – clever!
I love how linen is to wear! It’s a little bit of a hassle to knit, but the finished garments are so nice! Yours will be lovely 🙂