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Completed crochet cowl made from cormo & merino. I ended up adding additional edging details because the cast on and bind off didn’t visually match. I might do this again with different handspuns. Base pattern is by CrochetTheHighway.
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It’s getting there. I’m going to have to do at least 2 more repeats in addition to the pattern instructions so that the whole piece measures nicely square.
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Well, I decided to start this crochet cowl (Scorpio Cowl by Crochet the Highway) because I wanted a relaxed project (which is what crochet is to me) … that is not what happened. I honestly have never frogged a project more in my life! First, the cowl size as written is massively small, 22”, which…
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Mammoth cowl WIP. I’m about halfway through this project now and am vaguely surprised that the ‘back’ (white) is looking much better than the ‘front’ (grey)
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WIP of the mammoth cowl. I’ve been getting irrationally annoyed that some of the random single stitches in the forest section have been coming out ‘large’ & ‘wonky’. I had to look back at wips of the dino cowl to reassure myself that this is fine/normal and will even out in blocking. The cool thing…
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Aaaaand I’m at it again, double knitting yet another @HandHuntKnits cowl. This time it’s the mammoth cowl and I’m trying to be super neat about it as I want to enter it into the 2024 Royal Easter Show.
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Completed double knit fossil cowl. Pattern is the ‘Fossil Frenzy Cowl’ by HandHuntKnits that was adapted for double knitting technique. This cowl was a year in the making, with lots and lots of help from a member in my fibre community who helped work out colour control for the twisted rib & created a stretchy…
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The colourwork is finally done & I just have to do the ribbing. Before I do that though, I’m going to weave in a lifeline because I’m terrified I’m going to stuff up the ribbing colour control and I really don’t want to tink whole rows…
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This is getting unwieldy & difficult to photograph progress. But I’ve only got 10 rows left of colourwork design left before the top ribbing section so I’m super excited to finish it.
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More progress on the fossil cowl. It took me a week of knitting every day before dinner to add another inch to the design. Double knitting is slow yet worth it!