Peace proces

How is my 'peace proces' going. I have the charts. I ordered some yarn for test knitting. It is GGH Merino. A nice soft and round merino yarn. The first swatch I made with off white background and light brown contrasting color on 3mm needles.

Here I got 29 stitches per 10 cm, a little to loose. I like the color combination.
There are a few rows in the chart with only a small part of the round stranded. In this swatch I tried using a long tail of yarn for these parts and knit back the colored part in the uneven rows. I'm not really happy with this approach. It pulled at the row changes.
The second swatch is with a dark background and off white contrasting color with 2.75mm needles.

The gauge is better with 31 stitches in 10 cm. This time I just carried around both strands every row. The stranded bit is better now, but it is noticeable in the single color parts. Not sure yet what to choose.
Now finishing my charts and 'designing' the seamless set-in sleeves.