This is the current state of my MKAL project:
It's quite something, isn't it? Stella is used to seeing it wadded up, with only the last bit poking out of my knitting bag, and as she watched me take this picture she said, "When you see it all spread out, it's very.. a lot." She's right: it is VERY a lot. I have one more fan wedge to go on the right side, and then probably the finishing instructions will involve a lot of I-cord edging.
I was manipulating the gradient of the self-striping yarn in one of the wedges, and I was fretting about whether I had changed the color too abruptly. "I might have made it look weird," I said plaintively as I surveyed the transition from dark blue-green to lighter blue-green. "Mom," said one of my children, gently and accurately, "you don't have to worry about making this thing look weirder than it already looks." We're pretty much at maximum weirdness here, are we not?
It is bigger than I am. It is vast-- an ocean of weirdness, a sea of strange. I will be able to swathe myself in it on the snowiest of days, as long as I wear sunglasses to protect myself from the blinding brightness of the colors.
I am calling it my invisibility cloak, because look:
(my arm is fully extended over my head in this picture) (but you'd never know that because I'm invisible)
It is so visually unexpected that if you saw it in the wild you wouldn't say, "Hm, is that a person behind that invisibility cloak?" No, you would just say, "Wow, that is a painfully vivid Thing over there and I don't have eye protection. I'd better look away now."
The pictures cannot begin to convey the brightness of the lime green. If I wear it outside, I might be deemed an environmental hazard. Picture me walking along the Gladlyville thoroughfares on a sunny day, blinding its citizens with my invisibility cloak. "Aaaiiieeee," they will shriek, fleeing to save themselves. "Out of my way!" I will thunder. "I spent all summer working on this thing and I'm going to wear it, dern it!"
(Except it is actually pretty itchy. We shall have to see how much wear it gets.)
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