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FO: Darkside Cowl & Crafty Fail: Beret
By Susan | February 17, 2009
I had to post, because I couldn’t leave that picture of the ice-covered tree up on top of this page any longer! While the ice and snow hung around for a while, we eventually had a warm spell and now all of the snow is long, long gone.
(Except for those dirty compacted snow piles that linger in the corners of parking lots – those are still there. I think those will be there until April at this rate.)
(Note: Had I still lived in Chicago or New Hampshire, I would have said “June” instead of “April” in that last parenthetical. Can I say again how glad I am we moved here?)
(Thus ends the paratheticals.)
In the meantime, I have been knitting! I even finished something, which, now that the snow is gone, I probably won’t need:
Pattern: Darkside Cowl by Sarah Fama (Ravelry Link)
Yarn: Dream in Color Classy in Don’t Be Blue, about half of a hank on size #7 circular needle
Started January 19th, completed February 2nd
I’m not usually drawn to knit and purl, rib-type patterns but something about this one called to me. I had this gorgeous yarn, and needed a quick project to use it. The two went together perfectly.
The yarn is very soft and the final product is nice and smooshy. I haven’t washed it yet, which I’m hoping will soften it up even more and (hopefully) loosen up the stitches. It’s just a tad tight, which in a way is good as a snug fit will keep the drafts out. But too snug of a cowl tends to feel a bit strangling and claustrophobic. Therefore, a wash and a block will be necessary before wearing.
Another reason this will need a good soak before wearing:
Everytime I knit with the yarn, it turned my finger blue. It’s hard to see, but I have a stripe of blue right across my pointer finger knuckle.
My fingers were blue a lot, lately because after I finished the cowl, I thought I’d make a hat in the same yarn. A beret, in fact. Who doesn’t love a slouchy beret?
That would be what would become the slouchiest beret, ever. So slouchy that it drooped down over my eyes. This has since been sent to the frog pond. It’s a lovely pattern which I highly recommend (Meret by Woolly Wormhead) but all I can say is – get gauge.
I’ve also gotten the urge to knit… a sweater. No not the sweater that I’ve been working on since last September (good grief, knitting top-down ragland sweaters is a slog) but a cabled sweater. In pieces. That will need to be seamed. I’m living on the edge, people.
Topics: Crafty Fail, Knitting, Scarves | Comments Off
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