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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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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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So many hours it took me to complete the newly invented double knit twisted rib bind off on this cowl! The bind off was developed for me by a member of one of my fibre communities and they did such a fantastic job as it is stretchy and completely matches the invisible cast on. I…
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An entirely new bind off had to be developed for double knit twisted rib. I am so very grateful to a particular member of my fibre community would spent ages figuring out this bind off for me. It’s kinda evil (but not as evil as a previous iteration) and achieves the same stretchyness & look…
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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!
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Here are some WIPs of of the fossil cowl. Yep, double knitting takes forever. But this cowl is gonna be sooo worth it once I’m finished with it!
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Progress on my double knit fossil cowl. This is honestly going to take forever as I can only comfortably do 2-3 rounds at a time, but realistically I am actually knitting 2 pieces of fabric at once! This is the bottom ribbing and the first few rows of the colourwork. Stay tuned!
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A frustrating pictorial tale of figuring out double knitting twisted rib stitch. Because I decided the stranded colourwork fossil cowl needed to be completely reversible & highly plush…