Coral Coast Wrap - Finished!

Rounding out my week of finishing projects is my Coral Coast Wrap.  This was just a fun knit, and I enjoyed the different colors.  I’m not a huge fan of singles yarn, but I do make the exception for these kits.  The different lace patterns kept things interesting, without being too difficult, and with enough straight knit or purl rows that I could do some reading while working on it.  It also made for good meeting knitting, and I had a lot of meetings last week.  Last weekend my sister Virginia called me about looking for linen thread and during the course of the conversation asked me how many projects I had going at the same time.  I tossed of “around two dozen”, which was pretty close, as when I spoke to her I did have twenty-three.  Now I’m down to twenty (plus eight that are hibernating).  

When I have that many projects on the needles I tend to focus on a couple at a time, working them in spurts until I get one pretty close to done, then I’ll focus on that one till I finish it.  Now that these are off the needles I’ve gone back to my two MKALs.  I have fallen behind on my Observatory MKAL - clue 5 is out and I haven’t finished clue 4, although I made a lot of progress on clue 4 yesterday.  Plus I need to work Clue 4 of my Box of Chocolates MKAL.

Pattern:  Coral Coast Wrap by Ambah O’Brien 

Yarn:  Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles 

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

 

Coral Coast Wrap - Section One Done

 

I have actually knit this section twice.  Somehow the first time through I got off a stitch on the first repeat of the pattern, so my k2togs did not line up nicely.  I thought about just ignoring it and even got two-thirds of the way through section two before I decided that I really did need to fix it.  So I ripped back and then started knitting from the original section one.  You can see the remnants of the original cast on.  Seems I knit a bit tighter this go around.  I am keeping the first and last two stitches in garter stitch as I think it just gives a nicer edge.

Colors:

January - Cedar

Pattern:  Coral Coast Wrap by Ambah O’Brien

Yarn:  Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)

Coral Coast Wrap - Cast On

 

I finally cast on my Coral Coast Wrap this morning.  This is the 2020 Jimmy Beans Shawl Club, and the pattern is by Ambah O’Brien.  I went with the Jimmy Beans colors, rather than the original colors, which matched the inspiration photo.  I haven’t seen too many wraps in these colors, it looks like most folks went with the original colorway.

I did not work a long tail cast on for this one, as you have to cast on 301 stitches. Instead I did a knitted cast on and I just kept casting on until I had a bunch of stitches.  Then I paused and start counting from the beginning of the cast on and placed a split ring marker after 50 stitches.  After placing the first marker I would count from the marker for placing the next one until I had the right number of stitches.  The last section has 51 stitches.

When I unpacked the last two tins yesterday, I had one in each hand and couldn’t remember which one was November and which one was December.  I guessed, and guessed correctly.  Fortunately they do have the month on the little slip of paper that is in the center of each ball.  Here are all the colors on the board that came in the December package in order from left to right and then top to bottom.

The January color is Cedar

Pattern:  Coral Coast Wrap by Ambah O’Brien

Yarn:  Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles

Needle:  US 5 (3.75 mm)