I had to travel to California this past week for work and took this project along with me. Before I left I split all of the skeins up so I wouldn't have to worry about running out or weighing anything. I also realized that between the time that I bought the Charivari Paint Box and the Gazania Paint Box the Traveling Zebra pattern had been changed - the strips were 16 rows in the Gazania Paint Box pattern as opposed to 18 rows in the Charivari Paint Box pattern. When I was working the Gazania Traveling Zebra it did seem to me that the ruffled section was shorter, but I didn't bother to check until I had finished the red stripe. I figure that the pattern was shortened to keep folks from running out of yarn, but I prefer the look of the longer ruffled section. Who would have thought that 2 rows could make that much difference? So I ripped back to the blue ruffled section and switched to the Charivari Paint Box version of the pattern with 18 rows. I still have yarn left over after completing the 18 rows, but not nearly as much as I had when I was only working 16 rows. On this one I didn't make the central panel as long as I did on the Charivari version. I'm thinking that I will turn it into a shrug and use up the remainder of my yarn doing that.
Pattern: Traveling Zebra by Louise Robert
Yarn: Bis-sock by Biscotte & Cie
Needle: US 2.5 (3 mm) & US 4 (3.5 mm)
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