I'm learning helical knitting for the body of my Drip Dye sweater so the two hand dyed colors blend a bit better.

Y'all. Why did no one tell me this before? (Nevermind that I don't go to knitting nights or anything.) I can blend my two skeins and not have that annoying twisted seam?

I tried learning it years ago and it didn't click. For some reason, it did with this tutorial.

https://stolenstitches.com/blogs/tutorials/helical-stripes

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I finished up the Wings of Wonder MKAL and have it off the needles, which made me think I can cast on something new! So I've started with the Drip Dye Sweater by Feinmotorik - https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/drip-dye - and I decided that this was the time that I was going to learn how to do the Italian tubular cast on for once and for all.

I've tried before. It has not gone well. Then I came across Norman at Nimble Needles and his extensive photo and video tutorials. I will say that the photo tutorials are so good that I only looked at the video to make sure that I was understanding it correctly. The tutorial I used was this one - https://nimble-needles.com/stitches/how-to-knit-the-italian-cast-on/

I got to add a new tool to my knitting technique tool kit! I'm really excited because I do love doing a tubular bind off for ribbed cuffs and now I can have that for the collar as well.

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Do you ever see a knitting pattern, have an idea for the color scheme, order it, have the yarn arrive, and it's so perfectly what you were imagining that you get a little choked up?

Yeah. I'm looking forward to this Drip Dye sweater. (Photos once I get some current projects off the needles.)

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