Destroyed Cowl: Part III

The wind is noticeably out of my sails on this project... first mentioned here. I'm sorry. After I dyed and blocked it, I didn't like it so much.


It's a little scratchy.


And the uneven color, that I normally love, looks kind of sucky to me. I may try overdyeing, and re-blocking. Or chalk it up to an dyeing disaster.


On the upside, I love the pattern, so may make it again with a softer yarn and more dropped stitches for an even more dramatic look.


They can't all be winners...

Destroyed Cowl: Part II

For those interested, the Destroyed Cowl, aka my first fall knit, is just a big rectangle of stockinette stitch. Boring to knit, but good for TV watching. Fairly mindless. But, oh yay for dropping stitches on purpose!!

As always, the Kitchener stitch was way more annoying than expected. It's supposed to make the cowl a continuous loop of knitting. Blocking will even this out some.

But as you can see, I made some mistakes.

Okay, a LOT of mistakes here at the end... Fortunately, I think these won't be noticeable unless someone is studying it.

Next up: dyeing.

First fall knit

Apparently, I inspired myself. After I showed the Destroyed Cowl a few days ago, I started to really want one. So whilst at the airport Friday, (and on and off since then) I've been working on my own cowl. It doesn't look like much yet, but I have high hopes for this. I think I want to dye it too, after I was so happy with how this wool took color.