I jinxed myself. I told the universe that "barring any unforeseen difficulties," I'd have my r2 tank done this weekend. Hello unforeseen difficulties.

r3?

It all began so calmly, I was knitting along on the back with the yarn I had left over from the front. Then, when that ran out, I knit for a bit with the leftovers that Jenn gave me. Then, my new ball arrived from The Knitting Garden, and I knit away with that. After about 4 inches in the new yarn, I noticed it - a stripe where I had used Jenn's yarn. I hadn't noticed any color difference the whole time I used it. And I didn't notice any difference when I started with the new ball. I think it was the change from daylight to indoor lighting that really made it show up. Well, I couldn't stand it. There was no way I was going to leave it like that. So I decided to remove the section knit with Jenn's yarn and graft the top and bottom sections together.

I undid the join and slowly picked out the loops, separating the sections. Can you see the faint stripe caused by the different dye lot? After a few hours, I had all the different yarns separated. Then began the long, tedious process of grafting it back together. Since the R2 is like a ribbon yarn and folds over on itself as you're knitting it, it doesn't lie perfectly flat and produces a fabric with some texture. I thought this would make it a good candidate for grafting, since the grafted row didn't have to match up perfectly with the other rows. Any unevenness would fit right in with the rest of the knitting. But still, it was a pain grafting with the ribbon yarn. Since the yarn wasn't being held with the same tension as when being knit, it wasn't folding in the same way. Long story short, I'm having to go back anyway, adjusting every other stitch to match the look of the original. And I'm still working on it.

make me whole again