Late last week I swatched for Butterfly and for some bizarre reason thought I would need size 9 needles. I went to Tahoe without them and worked on some more pink ribbons instead.
Then, last night I re-swatched and ended up getting the gauge I wanted on 7s. Keep in mind that I'm not using Noro at all, I'm using Cascade's Lana d'Oro in Lichen.
So I cast on last night and messed up my first row.
I re-cast on tonight and did a few rows while talking to my parents on the phone. Not much to see, so I won't bother with a pic.
I had been thinking that the chevron pattern is really pretty with Noro, but was starting to worry that it wouldn't be pretty with just plain yarn, so I swatched up a test swatch of caron simply soft or some such thing to see what I could do with some eyelets.
Behold:
After intense IM discussion, C and I decided I should just stick with the pattern because it looks "cleaner" to me. The lacy stuff just looks sort of bumpy, though I may use it for something else at some point. Anyone else have an opinion?