I've been working on a sweater design using intarsia, and I wanted the color pattern to start right from the cast-on edge. That gave me a problem, since I didn't know how to make the color changes line up straight, while still keeping the edge neat.
I'll admit there is a tiny chance that I'm the only person who's ever had sleepless nights worrying about this. But since the solution I came up with is simple and effective, I thought I'd share it—just in case you have perfectionist tendencies too.
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—Wendy
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