A change from art ~ 1 of the strange things from my knitting
I made a scarf for my mother & then remembered that she hates anything tight around her neck, so it went to my elder daughter, bem. I knitted it along its length using 2 different colours of yarn:
Scarf.
When Llyw came to stay at Christesmas & New Year, he saw the scarf & decided that he wanted one, but he wanted it twice as wide, just as long & for the long sides to be sewn together to make a long sausage. Usually, I would knit such things in a circle, but I had no circular, sock or sweater sets of needles to do so & knitting it sideways gave extra stretch for him to pull it over his head as I used what I call a “cobweb stitch” to knit it. He was lucky in that had I several balls of the same yarn used to make the original scarf in blue.
Once I’d finished the wrist warmers I was making for the boys for their stockings, I could settle down & work on his idea. I finished it the day he was returning to England ~ brilliant timing!
Llyw’s Cowl unsewn guarded by Pireni & Bridie.
I finished the knitting the evening before he left & then sat up in bed sewing half the long seam, finishing the sewing in the morning after he’d tried it on.
Cowl after sewing showing the length
Putting on the Cowl
Like most of the pictures of my son, you can’t see his face! That’s snow on the window ~ we had several periods of snow this year.
ON!
I was so pleased that he’d managed to get it over his head.
Not quite the intended wearing style, but Annon likes this picture of her brother!
Cowl as a Cowl.
Llyw’s Cowl was a great success if hard work. Of course I failed to record number of stitches & rows, but did use 9mm needles ~ so I remembered something
