Swatch!
Last night I began the dubious process of swatching for Venezia. Since I needed to make a large swatch, in the round, in all seven fair isle colors to check for color as well as gauge, this started out kind of ridiculously.
However, I am enormously pleased with the results:
In short, I love love love the colors together. My gauge is a little big, so I might tinker around with going down a needle size or I might just do the necessary math and then knit the appropriate size from the pattern based on my actual gauge. Also, this was two full pattern repeats width-wise and one and quarter repeats vertically, so I have overly optimistic time projections for this considering I did such a "large" swatch in one day's time.