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i am somewhat underwhelmed by the final result.

i have somehow ended up with something that is both too narrow, at the bottom, and too wide, at the top, to really sit properly as a cowl. this is most likely a result of my gauge issues, but also probably a result of my shoulders being wide as a linebackers, not narrow like a ballerina's.

but, if i pull the top edge over my head, like a hood, it is kind of brilliant. so, not a total loss. and as it was designated as office wear, where the back of my neck is always cold, that may be the way it gets worn most in any event.

28 december 2014 last minute

what with christmas at home and end of year deliverables at work, i completely forgot i had to finish the willow cowl!

so out it came, and while watching christmas movies and football games i knit round after round after round...

...until i realized that for the first time in my life, i was above gauge and wouldn't have enough yarn to knit the cowl as directed, much less add in the extra sections that some people can squeeze out of their skein of sock yarn.

this is defnitely not enough to knit another 12 rows of the lace section, much less the stockinette rows after that.

10 december 2014 adopted

a friend of mine moved to australia earlier this year, and left me a nice little stash of yarn.

i am thinking an afghan for most of it, something for my daughter to remember her friend so far away [even though i doubt they'll be forgetting each other any time soon what with the amount of time they spend skyping each other], but there were two skeins of a chunky wool acrylic in the color clematis, that were all by their lonesome in color and gauge.

et voila! an hour and some television watching, and i have most of one warm mitt.

06 december 2014 darn

right now, i have 5 1/2 pair of hand-knit socks.

and as the weather has gotten colder, i went looking for the newest and softest pair, and found them. complete with holes. i am guessing maybe moths, but nothing else shows moth sign and i haven't seen other holes in socks or sweaters or skeins of yarn that were in the same area. so maybe pixies.

in any event, i couldn't find the small amount left over from the kntting so i used a darker blue that i could find, and tried to darn as best as i could.

i know how to do it in theory, but it never seems to look as good as the darning i've seen from my german grandmother. i really wish she were stil around for me to learn how she did it so perfectly, so that it showed a perfect woven square instead of a kind-of-woven blob.

but the hole is closed, so there's that...

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