The color of this Thermis cowl is still photographing a little duller than it is in real life. Must be the flash on my camera.
There are several other things on the agenda tonight, including the Stitch & Pitch/Knitting in Public Day at TD Bank Ballpark with the Somerset Patriots on June 12. I'm not sure what Val has in mind, but I'm looking forward to the discussion.
The Thermis is nearly finished. I'm a few rows past the first button hole, and I've picked out some possible buttons from my rather extensive button stash. The blue ones look great, but they are a little thick and might be annoying so close to my chin. The wooden ones are also thick, though. The designer does use wooden buttons on her Thermis, and I rather like the look, but I don't know if I'd prefer to have button holes showing or not, so I'm going to think about it some more today.
Posted in events, knitting. Tags: buttons, cowls, knitting, knitting group, prayer shawl ministry, prayer shawls on December 29, 2010 by Pam MacKenzie.
These gifts, including the Thermis cowl in the top left corner and the pattern underneath it, were part of the package I received in Swap on a Budget this last round.
After finishing my disappointing shrug yesterday, I decided to make 2 things I really want: a dark teal Thermis cowl and my replacement Fair Isle hat. The Thermis cowl is the style I got in my last Swap on a Budget package. You can see the one I got in this picture, along with a copy of the instructions. I like it because it's such a practical shape: it fits my neck well, fits inside the collar of most of my coats, and it comes up over my chin and lower face when I want it to. And also, I like wearing it indoors when I have the heat turned down at home or when I'm in a grocery store. I wear this pink one several times a week.
A month ago, when I was coughing a lot, that extra layer of warmth felt particularly good. Now that I'm healed up, I don't need it so much, but I still enjoy having it. So I got out some Ocean colored Caron Simply Soft, cast on 112, and got to work on the cowl first. It's going pretty fast. I'm about 8 rows from the place where you stop knitting in the round and start going back and forth so that you can put those buttons on, near the top. I'm thinking this will be a great project to do as a handmade gift in some of my future Swap on a Budget packages.
This Thermis cowl is going very quickly. I'm looking forward to wearing it by the end of the week. The color got washed out in this photo; it's actually much richer.
I chose the Ocean because I have a fair amount of it, and because I use Ocean in the Fair Isle hat. The Pagoda color would probably go better with some of my favorite sweaters because it has more green in it, but I only have four skeins of Pagoda, also given to me in the Swap on a Budget package, and as I don't know any stores in Central Jersey that are selling it, I want to save it all for a sweater.
I'm looking forward to finishing this and getting started on the Fair Isle hat. Then I'll get back to Alex's gloves and Gwenn's shawl.
Posted in knitting, yarn. Tags: Caron Simply Soft, cowls, knitting, Swap on a Budget/Ravelry, yarn on December 28, 2010 by Pam MacKenzie.