It blocked very nicely! It's very soft and pretty and the weird gradient distribution actually looks fine when it's worn. Very happy with it.

Completed!! Once again I did not post pictures more regularly. Photos are from last week and this week.

Modified the third stockinette section to have 2 extra rows so I can use more of the pink and also end off on the pink.

Reflections:

• The colour changes are wayyyyy too squished. I definitely should've begun striping in the new colours earlier, but I wouldn't have been able to guess if I had enough yarn left. Not sure if there's anything I could've done that would've solved all of these problems. It doesn't look THAT bad - it's just that the second and third colours have a fairly large jump in contrast, so it looks like the first colour abruptly stops, when actually that's the second colour.
• I did not swatch for this because again...I didn't know how much I could spare, also it's not a fitted garment so it's not terribad to be off. HOWEVER I did use smaller needles than suggested (4.5mm instead of 5mm), so the horizontal width (about 80-81cm on the blocking board) falls quite a fair bit short of the expected dimensions (though the vertical height is pretty close). I think it's still wearable, but it would've been nice if it were larger.
• For some reason my stitch counts were off and asymmetrically so. I'm...not sure why...I couldn't figure out where it went wrong...but also because I couldn't, I figured it'd be fine to just ignore it lol.
• First time blocking a project. It's still on the board but I already like how much neater the edges look like this - fresh off the needles it was curling a little and was a little hard to get a photo. I don't have a lot of physical space so the smaller size works in my favour...also I do not like the smell of wet wool. Praying it goes away completely once it dries.

I'm left with quite a fair bit of extra yarn - not enough for a decently-sized project, yet still Too Much. I think I'll do a swatch for swatching's sake, but even so, I'll probably have some left...

Overall this was an easy knit, aside from my worries over the distribution of the colours I enjoyed it. I'd do it again but maybe with appropriately portioned yarn and/or a solid colour - I like the heathered colours in the samples...will consider it...

The yarn was nice to work with, aside from the smell I suppose. Definitely want to buy from this shop again, maybe when I've chewed through more of my yarn stash......

I'm thinking it will probably save me some issues uploading pictures if I just posted them more regularly.

Progress for the second day of working on this - it's very simple so it works up fast. My main issues are that:

• My yarn over-purls are very loose for some reason (compared to the yarn over-knits on the opposite side), so I have to pull them extra tight
• Somehow ended up with 1 extra stitch on one side and 1 less stitch on the other??
• Should probably have started striping in the second colour earlier for better colour distribution...
• I'm on the 3rd and last stockinette section, have 3 more colours unused, and just started on the 3rd colour...that's only slightly above 21 rows left to blend in 3 new colours, so this is going to be terribly imbalanced. 

The yarn does get used quite fast in terms of weight (compared to when I was working with fingering weight yarn) so I think I should be able to get through the other colour changes...but it will likely look quite funky. Not sure how many rows I should expect colours to take...but it's fun working with these colours because I like them.