Back to Square 1

While I loved the feel of my cowl, it was waaaaay too long to actually wear so I frogged it all - took me two sittings because of how well I had woven in the loose strands - in order to do it all again!

Only issue currently: can't find my circular knitting needles!

Eternity is finished - yay!

Finally, I'm done but not without a few mishaps. First of all, I really struggled with the instructions going from rib to regular so I reversed the order. No issues there. But then I have never been really good at casting on so I ended up with a lot, and I mean a LOT, extra stitches (4). And finally, I ran out of yarn during cast off (1) so had to frog that part and re-do it because I didn't have yarn that matched (2) and was too cheap to get another skein. So there you go: adventures in knitting!

1.) 2.)
3.) 4.)

But I LOVE it and the Rowan Lima yarn is just delicious to work with and wear! I think I might do another one - albeit with less stitches.

Still taking an Eternity

So ... I frogged it again. And then stuck with my idea to work it back to front, so I started with the garter stitch part. It's a bit bigger than 200 stitches because of the way I cast on. But it's working well and I am enjoying this project. However I will be happy when it's finished and I can wear it!

Eternity scarf - what a double entendre!

What do you mean, you can't fudge it!? Well, the instructions were right, you can't fudge it. I tried and I paid the price. So I had to frog the scarf and redo it all over again - hence the name "eternity", I wonder. I did decide however to put the whole thing onto its head and start from the top down. Beginning with a cartridge stitch was causing too much trouble.

All in all, I can say that this is fun to make and the Rowan yarn is oh-so-soft! I cannot wait to be finished and wear it!

Getting ready for Christmas ...

Originally, these towels were meant to go into a Christmas charity raffle but there are so many items already that I am just giving them away as gifts. Because I was having fun with them and a lot of cat-themed Christmas fabric, I made some kitty Christmas towels for my friend Caroline:

And now, finally, for me, me, me:
I found the pattern on Ravelry and I can tell you that Rowan Lima is delicious, soft and wonderful to work with!

Can you say "sidetracked" ...

During my first visit to Melody's Fiber Mania blog, I stumbled across one of her projects, the eternity scarf .... I loved it so much - me, the person who doesn't like wearing self-knit things - that I had to hop over to CS Quilt Design for Rowan Lima yarn and downloaded the pattern.

I have no idea when I will manage to actually knit this ... but one can still dream, right?