Tired tonight; in addition to my class and writing an exam for next week, I evaluated 20-odd applications for a position in my department. And of course there's the terrible news of the world and the fog of war preventing us from knowing if it was a horrible accident or an evil intentional act.
So anyway. Time to knit again.
This is the finished hat for my mom. KnitPicks "Felici Worsted" in the colorway "Solstice"
It's just a simple 1x1 rib pattern - it was in a free issue of Burda Knitting (usually Simply Knitting includes one). I don't love the colors myself but they are colors my mom wears - her "casual" winter coat is red, so this will match.
And this is the beginning of the ribbing for my niece's cowl. I messed up at first and wound up with a Moebius but I dropped a stitch and let it ladder down, twisted it back, and picked the stitches back up, and while I can see where I did that I'm not sure if anyone else could; at any rate it was preferable to ripping it all back and having to lose 6 rows of ribbing (ribbing takes a long time because you're switching from knit to purl and back) and then maybe having to cast on 168 stitches again.
It's sort of a honeycomb pattern; I thought of it when I saw the beeswax colored yarn on a good sale. (It's a "mill end" - not as much a "shine" as usual, I think they said - of Madeline Tosh worsted)
It's for my niece; like I said I will knit one nice fancy thing for her and see how it goes over.
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