Bulky Cowl FO

Two days after my last post, my Miss Babs order arrived. <3

As you can see in the picture, I didn't just receive the skein of Yowza! that I ordered. I got some gifties too! I love getting wee little gifties. And I particularly enjoy cute wee gifties such as the sample of Cosmic sock yarn and a Miss Babs stitch marker that I got. How sweet is that? Thank you nice ladies from Miss Babs!

I haven't yet thought of a project for the yarn, and honestly I haven't even looked. I wasn't hit by a bolt of inspiration, despite loving the look and feel of the yarn. In fact I was feeling kind of uninspired.

I have been knitting the V-neck sweater off and on, lots and lots of knitting in the round.

I've been feeling like I wasn't making much progress-though I obviously am progressing, I've separated the sleeves, put them on waste yarn, attached the front and the back and have knit about 7.5 inches from the underarm (roughly 7.5 left to go before ribbing, except I have a long torso and may add another inch or two before I rib) I did try it on after I put the sleeves on waste yarn and it seems to fit pretty well. I'm going to try it on again after I've knit 2 more inches, I want to do a couple of decreases for some waist shaping (eek-deviating from the pattern! proceed with caution!)

But apart from knitting half an inch here, an inch there, I wasn't really doing much knitting. I wasn't really all the interested in knitting. Worried I was losing my knitting mojo, I hopped onto Ravelry-to see if I could find a quick project to take away some of the monotony of all that stockinette from the v-neck sweater. Andi Satterlund to the rescue, with her pattern: a bulky cowl. Welp, dug through the stash, found some Knitpicks Bulky Swish in Hollyberry.  I don't know why I had two balls of Hollyberry in my stash as red is not usually a colour I buy, I must have had a reason, a pattern in mind, but damned if I can remember. So I started the cowl, did the first 4 rows just fine (as they were just knit and purl rows), lost a stitch in row 5, figured I'd fudge it for row 6, and by row 7 was missing 3 stitches, and had missed a repeat somewhere. Everything was just wonky and wrong.
I'm going to blame it on the fact that I was watching "Don Jon" and the two main actors had horrible, horrible Jersey accents-yeeesh. Anywhoo, frogged the whole damn thing (Swish Bulky frogs well, good to know) and restarted.

It went much better this time and I was able to get more than half of the cowl done while binge watching 3 episodes of the seventh season of SOA.

I finished the cowl while at KnitNight/Stitch & Bitch. So all told? I guess it took about 5.5- 6 hours? I'm pretty pleased with it. I like that it can be looped around the neck twice, or can be worn over the head like a hood, but I don't know if I'm going to keep it. I don't really wear red well. I'll see how I feel after I've washed it. I'll probably end up offering it up on facebook.

I'm not really that pale, camera washed me out. Both my camera, and phone have taken really shitty pics as of late. I think it's because we've had so much rainy weather/constantly grey skies and my place doesn't get a lot of light at the best of time-so even with all the lights on, my cameras need the flash...I suppose if I played with camera settings and looked into a proper set-up to take pics, it wouldn't be so bad. Ugh, why do I feel the need to keep explaining about my crappy pictures? I'm not selling my knits-just blogging about them.


I have nothing to knit now. Except the boring black sweater of doooom. And that sock that's still on the needles. And either of those two shrugs that I was working on a few weeks back. hrm...

Edited to add: whoops, some pictures were upside down-that's bad even for me!