Last of the Projects from My Trip

 

I’m late in posting these photos for the usual reason of not taking photos. But the remaining two projects from the trip are now completely finished.

I finished the project I started with the yarn I purchased in Richmond. The yarn is lovely and works really well with this pattern. I had earmarked the pattern when I first saw it but had not been able to find a skein of variegated yarn on my travels in Europe so was very happy to find yarn in the UK. The pattern is Just Keep Swimming and was easy to memorize. The important change I made was to wrap yarn three times around the needle on the row before the first slip stitch row so that the slipped stitches did not distort the cowl. The yarn is Plump Sock DK from Ainsworth & Prin.

 

 

The other item finished was the hat I started for airplane knitting. I could have saved this for future travels but as the WIP along is ongoing I decided to finish it. The yarn is Smooshy from Dream in Color and I am including a few photos so that you can see how much the skein changes in colour. It works well for this hat but I’m not sure how I would have felt if I had made a pair of socks with it. The pattern is a mash up of various double layer hat patterns.

 

Third Time’s the Charm

 

I recently finished a project using yarn I was given when I left Calgary. It has not been sitting in my stash all this time as it has already been two other projects. Obviously, I had been trying to force it into something that wasn’t going to work, but I really wanted to use the yarn. To be fair, I really liked the first project, I just never wore it.

Here is my blog post from January 2014 showing the first finished item which was eventually frogged in November 2019, recast on in May 2021 and frogged again in December 2021. This isn’t the oldest yarn in my stash but close and as I want to use or remove my oldest yarn I have been thinking about patterns. Despite my original assertions that this yarn should not be a shawl, I had come to the conclusion that a Clapotis would be a good idea. It’s a simple pattern that would highlight the yarn. And then I saw this pattern on a video podcast and knew it was the one. So much so that I started it almost straight away.

After a few rows in, the pattern was easy to memorise and work on. So it became my take along project. I didn’t feel that I worked very much at any one time but it was finished in less than three weeks. And I am very happy with the result.