Bolster Cover 3 - Cast On!

As soon as I finished the colorwork for the second bolster cover I immediately cast on another one.  I have two bolster forms to cover.  This one is a bit of a different vibe.  I had these two skeins and I knew I wanted to use them together, but I really did not want that dark brown to be the background, so I decided to flip things, so the variegated yarn is the background and the dark brown is the motif color.  I had also fallen in love with the octopus motif so I decided on an ocean theme.  Looking at the row counts and how many rows I need for one of these covers (106) I ended up picking three different motifs:  OCTOPUS, SEASHELL, and SQUID.  The order of knitting will be:  OCTOPUS, SEASHELL, SQUID, SQUID (with the chart flipped so it points in the opposite direction), SEASHELL, OCTOPUS.  I cast on with the dark brown and worked one row before switching to the variegated yarn and beginning the first chart.  This time I did cast on 96 stitches, so I am repeating the motif four times around.  I am also using stitch markers between the repeats.  I know that the variegated yarn does have some dark runs that almost match the background color, which does obscure the motifs in places, but I think it just adds to the mystery of the creatures.  Once again, these motifs are all taken from The Doodle Knit Directory by Jamie Lomax.

I reproduced them in Pattern Genius, exported them to PDF, and imported them in to knitCompanion.

Pattern:  Improvised

Yarn:  Expression Fiber Arts Enduring Worsted

Needle:  US 6 (4.0 mm)