Fun Knitting!
Posted on | March 24, 2009 | 9 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, the Spiders made the trek out to Marie’s Bay Ridge apartment for an afternoon of eating, knitting, and hoola hooping (in Marie’s spacious craft/yarn room). Last year, at the same gathering, the Spiders exchanged single socks, which I wanted to be a part of, but I didn’t have the time to commit to knitting a sock in fingering weight yarn. This year, during a Spider knit night at Jacques Torres in Soho, someone (I forget who now), suggested a cowl swap. Now, a cowl, I can do. And I’ve been wanting a cowl for some time now too since seeing so many lovely iterations of the accessory on Ravelry and blogs.
So I knitted a cowl for the lovely Lisa, a fellow fan of green. She expressed a preference for a couple of yarns and I jumped at the chance to try the Malabrigo Merino silk. I used the Herringbone Cowl pattern and voila, my first cowl (Lisa’s photo, I didn’t have my camera with me):
My cowl was knit by our newest member, Erin aka Mintyfresh. Funnily enough, I’ve been lusting after her gorgeous Tapestery Cowl for a while now (queued it as soon as it debuted). And I put down the Tapestry Cowl on my wish list, knowing that whoever my cowl knitter would turn out to be, she’d probably not want to knit a double knit cowl in fingering weight yarn. My instinct was right, Erin, understandably so, was not up for knitting another Tapestry Cowl. But by being randomly assigned to her, I couldn’t have been closer to getting that desire granted.
Instead, Erin knit me a gorgeous deep red, textured cowl of her own design (I understand she’ll be releasing the pattern at some point) closed by a silver button! I love it!
Next time: I hope to have a tutorial on how to decrease in pattern for the Silk Cocoon Cardigan.
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March 24th, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
I really like the collar. I’m a french speaker, can you tell me what means: fingering weight yarn?
March 24th, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
OK, that looks like a lot of Fun…I have been wanting to try the Herringbone Stitch and the cowl is perfect for it.
March 24th, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
that green cowl is gorgeous!! I love that you all made cowls, what a great idea.
- Julie
March 25th, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
I LOVE my Herringbone Cowl! It’s perfect! I’ve gotten so many compliments too. Thank you!
March 25th, 2009 @ 11:47 pm
I love the idea of a knitting group. In my rural area, I would have to travel about 200 sq. miles to find that many people, never mind knitters. O well, there’s a lot of comfort in just knitting, and following knitting blogs–or knitting groups vicariously.
March 27th, 2009 @ 11:35 am
What a fun activity. I enjoy spending time with knitting friends too. Must check out that double knitting.
March 31st, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
you knit such a beautiful cowl and got a great one in return!
April 3rd, 2009 @ 10:01 am
That was such a fun swap! Lisa really loved your cowl, you did such a great job
April 7th, 2009 @ 11:13 am
This is an awesome idea! I think our little circle will have to steal it!