Showing posts with label Ahoy! Mates Cowl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ahoy! Mates Cowl. Show all posts

Monday, April 15, 2019

Ahoy! Mates Cowl

One of skeins of yarn in the same box as the leftover Coolfire yarn was a single skein of Dream in Color Classy in Ahoy! Mates.  This was a special colorway developed for The Loopy Ewe for their annual Camp Loopy.  The theme that year was pirates.  I decided that it needed to be knit up right away so I caked it up and grabbed a US 7 needle (32 inch circular).  I pulled two lengths of yarn out of the cake and started working a long tail cast on till I ran out of tail and filled up the needle.  I worked one row flat and then joined to work in the round.  I worked a couple of rows of garter and then started working stockinette.  I continued working in stockinette until I had about 12 grams of yarn left, worked a couple more rows of garter and then cast off loosely.  The US 7 gives me a nice drapey fabric and the simplicity lets the yarn be the star.  This was a great project to throw into my work bag as it was just endless rounds of stockinette and it only took 2 days to complete.  I didn't even keep track of how many rounds I knit, but the finished dimensions are about 11 inches high and 17 inches across when laid flat.

Pattern:  improvised
Yarn:  Dream in Color Class in Ahoy! Mates
Needle:  US 7 (4.5 mm)