Knitting Northeasterly

After much debating I decided to go with the fingering weight swatch. I’ve decided to sort-of-kinda-of work in 20 slipped-stitches-row increments, which is what the stitch markers are counting.

So far I’m not finding the rows of back and forth garter as soul crushingly boring as I expected, although I will admit that I’m a bit scared to pick up for the next chevron so I’m delaying it for as long as possible.

I must admit this isn’t really a “scrappy blanket” as much as a “pre-planned, help-i-can’t-stop-buying-neutral-hand-painted-tonal-skeins” project. (By which I mean I’ve ordered 3 more color ways to add to the blanket, someone please cut me off).

Now here we are at our first problem, before even beginning! To use the fingering or the DK (fingering held double), that is the question!

My pros to the fingering are that I like the appearance of the smaller stitches, but alternatively with the DK I know it will go faster and I can hold a solid color together with a more colorful yarn and tone down the color (I’m going for a very neutral blanket so it can travel with me through different interior decorating phases).