After finishing up my Sky Song shawl I decided to go ahead and finish up my Step Into Christmas Cowl, as I only had one more chart and the ribbing to do. I am definitely pleased with how it came out. After blocking I checked the gauge - 32 stitches and 36 rows. My gauge on the matching hat was 33 stitches and 37 rows. I do tend to knit tighter on smaller circumference needles, but it is always interesting to get some real data on projects that are so similar. The stated gauge for both patterns is 32 stitches and 32 rows. I haven’t tackled the matching socks, yet, and I will probably wait a little while on those, mostly because I have never done colorwork on socks before and I thought I might start out with a pattern that wasn’t completely colorwork. I am also not a huge fan of working colorwork with superwash yarns. Superwash yarns tend to be gauge liars because they tend to be slippery, unless you knit them at a fairly tight gauge (using twice the diameter of the yarn to select your needle size). Non-superwash yarns tend to have a lot more stability because the stitches will hang on to each other, plus your floats will tend to felt over time giving your knitting even more strength and stability, and I’m must not sure about all-over colorwork socks in a superwash yarn.
Pattern: Step Into Christmas Cowl by Lisa K. Ross
Yarn: Lolodidit Loriginal and Lil Lolo Loriginal
Needle: US 1 (2.25 mm) and US 2 (2.75 mm)
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