A while back I couldn’t help myself and ordered one of Cephalopod Yarns’ Mini Skein Palettes. I got the purple/pink combo and after a bit of pondering came up with a plan.
I’m knitting stripey socks. But with the stripe pattern being determined by the roll of some dice.
You can read all about it here on the Ravelry page for the project.
I labeled each of the mini skeins with a number. There are 6 of them, so I’m using a 6-sided die to pick which color comes next, and figured I didn’t want each stripe to be more than 8 rows in a stripe, so I’m using an 8-sided die to pick the length of the stripe!
So far they’re really fun, but also an exercise in letting go. There are times when I want to re-roll because I think stripes of the same color are too close, but I’m pushing through that desire. I’m trying to make them a true exercise in embracing the random.
Miriam
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