More patterning: inner glow

Because each of my colour stripes wasn't a single colour, but a group of colours, I had another set of choices to make. Should the colours cycle through once? Should they go from dark to light? Should they go from light to dark? Should they go from light to dark to light again? Should they go from dark to light to dark again? What?

I had got the colours with light-to-dark-to-light and v.v. in mind. I like a sweater that doesn't have pattern up or down (more on that later). But if I only have those two options, there is a danger that they'll cycle in phase with the foreground/background options I wrote about yesterday.

My solution was to increase the period of the cycle to two stripes. There is one stripe with light-to-dark-to-light as its background and then one stripe with light-to-dark-to-light as its foreground and then one stripe with one dark-to-light-to-dark as its background and then one stripe with dark-to-light-to-dark as its foreground. Yesterday I showed pictures of the light-to-dark stripes in pink.

This not-very-good picture shows much more of the sweater. (I took a lot of nighttime pictures ... it's dark most of the time here at this time of year.) You can see stripes that go light-to-dark that I showed yesterday and the ones that have an inner glow, too.

The rule applies equally to the colours other than pink, but I think it's most obvious in that one; they're bigger stripes. The green stripes in the picture above go dark-light-dark bg, dark-light-dark fg, and then just peaking through at the top is light-dark-light bg.

There is basically only one more rule and then I'm done.