This brown stripe is one of the ones I think worked well. It goes from a very dark brown and a light grey to a paler brown and an orange-y yellow. I like the combination and I think the colour flow is nice and smooth. Even with the orange-y yellow, which doesn't run smoothly, I think it works as a central stripe.
I guess that's a good lesson for me: a single incongruous stripe down the centre of the pattern isn't the end of the world; it can be nice, even.
Another of the things I think make this pattern work well is the fact that the contrast between each pair is strong enough that it's possible to see the pattern the whole way through. All too often (examples to follow), I ended up with pretty colour flow but a mushy mess when it came to the patterns.
I also like those browns. I like brown in ways that I didn't 15 years ago. That's neither here nor there, but I was aiming for brown-ness with these yarns & it's good to know that I did achieve it once in a while.
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