It's a Wrap!
Well, it's a wrap in the sense that I finished it and the pattern is
also intended to be a wrap, but I've turned mine into a cowl!
The pattern is by Helen Stewart and is called the 'Dust of Snow Wrap' and
it's a beautiful and very large scarf. I've heard quite a few people
mention that, having made it, they found it bordered on being too large for
comfortable wear. So bearing that in mind, I've made mine a little
shorter and turned it into a cowl.
It's one of those patterns that is intended to be used with minis from an
advent calendar. The idea being to use all 24 different yarns. I
decided to only use 18 in the end and it would have been plenty long enough
for a scarf if you ask me. I almost didn't go through with my cowl
plan once I saw the beautiful long line of gradually changing colours but in
the end stuck with my theory that I'd wear it more if it was a cowl.
To begin, I'd cast on with a provisional cast on, planning to graft the live
stitches together when I got to the end, but although I don't mind a little
Kitchener work to close the toe of a sock or something smaller.
Tackling the longer width of the wrap did intimidate me a little and
so I decided to go for the much easier option of a 3 needle bind off and you
know what, I think it worked perfectly ok and although it's not totally
invisible, it does hide itself really quite nicely. Certainly well
enough for me to be happy with!
I finished this one in the very last hours of 2020, while we sat a watched Jooles Holland and his socially distanced Hootenanny bring in the New Year. Very satisfying to round up my last wip on the last day of the last month. A fresh crafty start to 2021! Now to get cracking on all the new makes...
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| First Side |
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| Second Side |
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| Quite unseemly! |
Yarn | A mixture of my West Green Loft and Dandelion and Dogwood
minis from my 2019 Advent
Held double with Dandelion and Dogwood Feather down in 'She's Naked'
Yardage | Approx 12g of each mini colour, plus 100g mohair - 320g/1880 yards
Mods | Provisional cast on, only 18 colours used, 3 needle bind off
to make cowl
Colours
D&D No 12 - Icicles
WGL No 12
D&D No 21 - Snowy Walks
D&D No 16 - Tiffany Under the Tree
D&D No 9 - Fairy Lights
WGL No 9
WGL No 10
WGL No 7
WGL No 19
D&D No 13 - Choir of Angels
WGL No 17
WGL No 14
WGL No 3
WGL No 1
D&D No 8 Salmon Patê
D&D No 15 - Vintage Fawn
D&D No 7 - Chloé for Christmas
WGL No 22
S x
♥
#CherryHeart
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