I have had fun this past week (or two) doing research on Ravelry. It's hard to know when to stop researching, and start knitting. I have found at least 15 perfect projects that I want to knit and my must-knit list has grown exponentially. But my research this week was intended to find projects to use my gifted-to-me Paint Box Yarns. I want to knit a shawl type of scarf. I'm down to 6 or 7 choices. I'm in a delema, rectangle, or triangular. I can't seem to make a decision.
While I ponder my delema, I decided that I really need to stop researching, and start knitting. I'll start with a cowl. I've been wanting to do a spiral cowl for a while, so this was an easy decision. I chose this Spiral Eyelet Cowl pattern because the spiral is clear and not complicated. But, after reading the pattern, I could not understand how that spiral design could happen/develop with the two-row repeat. I thought for sure it would be a 10-row repeat. How does the eyelet spiral? Well, I just started to cast on, and I figured once I start knitting, I'll figure it out. I still haven't figured it out, even after knitting 5 repeats of the two rows. But I am liking the look and it's easy to knit while watching TV. The Paint Box Simply DK yarn is very soft and is perfect weight for my size 4 mm 24"circular needles. I will definitely get this cowl done out of one of the 100 gram balls of the Simply DK. I hope to have a shawl/scarf decision made by the end of the week.
Stay Tuned and Happy Stitching..
1 comment:
My guess is that the skew of doing eyelet in the round is what is causing the spiral. Because I would assume the pattern is a 10 row repeat to achieve a diagonal line of sts. There is another pattern on Rav called Sprial Cowl by Keri McKiernan and her's is a 7 row repeat with no knit rows between.
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