FO: Medusa cowl
I had high hopes for this cowl. I knit it in a week and a half from my own design, and in my mind, I was like “I’m gong to submit it to Knitty! To Classic Elite! It’s going to be the next Clapotis! This is my big knitting break!!!”
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Then I put it on. All the cables scroonch down so it looks like Medusa neck, and knitted worms are wiggling around my neck. Blech.
It looks better from the side. Oh well, I’m still going to wear it in the fall, because it will be useful, but I am not offering a pattern, because let’s face it, this one is kind of a loser.
Pattern: My own–this is a couple of repeats of a really pretty dropped stitch cable pattern from The New Knitting Stitch Library, by Lesley Stansfield.
Yarn: This is Wool Bam Boo, from Classic Elite, in the color Sachet. It is a really nice yarn–I could see a nice spring sweater made from it, soft and smooth. Quite drape-y though. One ball, $11, from Knitty City.
Needles: Clover bamboo 9″ circular in size 5.
Project started/finished: Started July 8, 2009, finished July 19, 2009. Only a week and a half…until Gorgon neck.
Project notes: I didn’t swatch, and this project took the entire ball of yarn. What I learned is that if you want to make a cowl with cables, make it a little shorter and with less drapey yarn, so the cables don’t smush down into weird shapes. I kind of knew I should make it a little shorter, but I wanted the vertical repeats to be symmetrical, hence the extra length.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:32 pm #michele
or make it looser. you might have been happier with it if you had gone supersized and chunky like the ones on the runways this year. it’s a gorgeous color though – that color looks fabulous on you.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am #hpny knits
I LOVE it. its really cool. it will be great if you wrote general notes on it in Ravelry, like how many stitches around, what is the general cable pattern etc. it looks great. all cowls scrunch. its just the nature of the beast.