You need to know how it turned out, don't you?
But anyways, it feels as woofy as it looks, and since so few of my day to day friends are knitters, they won't notice the little things that bug me here. Really, it feels amazing. Amy, my model, didn't want to take it off. (That's the power of Cashmerino on your neck.) I'd have knit the whole thing out of cashmerino, had I known. But the pills. Ah, the pills... Sometimes I've lucked out with my Cashmerino and had no pills, sometimes not. Better not to risk it. Instead, I am thinking Karabella Aurora 8 or Sublime Merino Silk Aran or something like that might be a good call. Something Aran, something soft.
Or even a good Aran Tweed. I could make another in light gray Queensland Aran Tweed. Mmmmmm. Without the collar issues (which you CAN see in the photo above).
The beauty of Ravelry is that everyone will substitute and I'll get to see it a whole bunch of different ways, in a whole bunch of yarns - that is, if anyone (besides Jan there) ends up making it, yes? Below, the back. I love the back.
The beauty of Ravelry is that everyone will substitute and I'll get to see it a whole bunch of different ways, in a whole bunch of yarns - that is, if anyone (besides Jan there) ends up making it, yes? Below, the back. I love the back.
But, in order for any knitting to happen, I'm going to begin cable charting right after I finish here this morning. However, before I go -- I do have two more projects all photographed and ready to share.
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This colorful FO had been tossed aside to be Dealt With Later. The amazing yarn was bought at the NH Sheep & Wool 2 years ago - it's a soft, drapey alpaca merino mix in fall oranges and browns and purple. I'd had visions of a big, woofy, wide, open long scarf. The drop stitch cable design was perfect, but my measurements were Way Off. Instead, I ended up with a useless, too wide too-short rectangle. Annoying.

But looking at all the cowls out there this year, I had an idea. Seamed it up, and what do you know? I got me a cowl. And I wasn't even planning on owning one. (In real life, these colors are just a little less shocking than you see on your screen...)

Lastly, Zoe can't be the only one to get mitts. Three skeins out of the stash. The bright teal is leftover sock yarn, doubled. The grayish blue is Baby Cashmerino from my Mom, leftover from some baby sweater ages ago. And another skein of heather gray is in the wings. They'll be long fingerless mitts, with a fake button placket up the side - in the gray. She already loves 'em.
Lastly, Zoe can't be the only one to get mitts. Three skeins out of the stash. The bright teal is leftover sock yarn, doubled. The grayish blue is Baby Cashmerino from my Mom, leftover from some baby sweater ages ago. And another skein of heather gray is in the wings. They'll be long fingerless mitts, with a fake button placket up the side - in the gray. She already loves 'em.
And yes, I still owe you a drink.