I’ve got a couple of projects to share today, since neither felt big enough for an entire post.
This is my 3 Colour Cashmere Cowl, by Joji Locatelli. My Ravelry notes are available here.
My yarn was some lovely soft Alpaca bought at the Oslo Knitting Festival in October 2017. It was lovely in the skein, but is a little prickly on my skin. However, it works really well for this cowl.
The cowl is LONG, and I used smaller needles than the pattern indicated to get a smaller circumference. I wanted it nice and snug around my neck, instead of the loopy drapey version in the pattern. I usually wear it folded over (like in the first picture) to give maximum warmth. It’s also nice warn scrunched up like below.
It’s a nice little pattern, very simple. It just uses three different coloured 50g skeins of yarn and a few different textures and colour patterns. Easy, simple, pleasant knitting! And I wear this literally every day now 🙂
The next thing I knitted is the Bitey Bum Monster Pants by RaggedyMoo designs. My ravelry notes are here. These are for a friend of mine who just had a baby. For this I just used a few different balls of superwash DK weight wool and acrylic blend yarn in a green, purple, light grey, red, and a little black for the eyes. The cuffs on the legs are knitted long and then folded up to give some extra wear when baby grows upwards!
I made the waistband a little differently – the pattern has you knit eyelets to weave the icord drawstring through, but instead I folded it over and encased the drawstring, using only two eyelets to pull it through. The eyes are crocheted as per the pattern, and I knit the teeth improvising the design.
Aren’t they cute though? OM NOM NOM!
Christina Hopgood 