Working with multiple yarns....

I am about to add a new skill notch to my belt.
Yep, I've saddled up and am riding the dusty trial of multiple yarns.

I'm only at the start of my journey, both yarns are the same weight, just different colors.

One look at my finished items and you will see that I have been fairly safe with my knitting.
This has allowed me to dive into no pattern knitting and pattern design.
It's been fun, learning the basic rope tricks of increases and decreases as well as knit and purl placements, but now it's time to move on. I need to learn to corral two balls of yarn and how the little stitches show when paced together.

I guess saying I've saddled up is a might wrong. Truth be told, I'm rough riding it on this first run. I am making a bag for my laundry soaps. Nothing to big or fancy, which is why it was picked to be the first out of the gate. I got no pattern to map out my ride, just gut instinct and a stopping point.

I ain't showing no pictures yet, neither. So don't bother asking.
When it's done, if it don't look like it was the left overs from a stampede, I'll show it. But make no promises. I'm only a few rows in and, as everyone knows, young colts can look all legs and wobble and none too pretty till they get their height.

So far the only bad part, besides the way it looks right now, has been the yarns themselves. I was given these yarns from some one else thinning their stash-herd. One is a black worsted and the other is tan worsted, both are shedding hairs like a plains horse when winter ends. Which is to say short wiry looking 'hair' piles around me when I work on this project. No working on this project at the saloon or even in the wagon. Outdoor sessions only.

I have a feeling, when it is all said and done, that people are going to ask me how I managed some of the tricks I did at the top of the bag. I won't have a good answer for them as I am not sure. I switched gaits mid-row a few times and did some odd things with the yarn. Some times knitting both colors on a row, some times switching out. Should be interesting.

Well, until next time, may your spurs be sharp and your seat be soft.