This is such beauty, I tell you. And it's not so much that it is a stitch pattern I modified. It has more to do with the lighting, the color, and the way the yarn lays ever just so. This is why we knit, friends.
There's nothing like a swatch (a Dream Swatch for Nora in this case) to make my blue eyes bluer.
Nora knit it with self-striping cotton. She says some of the more exotic stuff can't be found there, so she used what she had. I say, that's the way to go, if you ask me. (And it looks like her camera isn't so shabby, either.)
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