As soon as I was sure of my choices, I could not help myself but cast-on with the 'Grizzly Heather' yarn, the darkest brown. This is of course not the best color to work with when you need to pay attention to detail.
I wanted to avoid a constant recounting of stitches, so I placed a stitch marker after every 100 stitches. By the way, paper clips make great stitch markers. As this was late in the evening, I had to stop at 200. Early this morning I cast-on the next 256 and at a total of 456 I have my cast-on row. (6 stitches are border stitches).
At lunch I knit the first row and it confirmed that I had the right number on my needles. Even up to this point there could have been a mistake in my counting. It has happened many times before.
Now I can get the ball rolling. This will be my "carry everywhere, mindless knitting in front of the TV" project.
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