Oh, I have so many plans... I want to start cooking more than the things I've been making over and over again for months now, I want to dust off my sewing machine (to use it), clean the house thoroughly, plan the garden (this year I will grow vegetables again)... the list goes on and on.
There's this deadline that has been bugging me. I've been working on this new (10th!) novel for almost a year now and I really, really wanted to finish it before 2016 started. I even promised my publisher I would.
Well, I didn't (luckily my publisher is very understanding about the health issues around here).
So I guess this will be all (well, most) what I do for a few days (weeks?) more.
The receiver of the white cowl (4th picture in this post) was pleased with the design, but she stated she would use a scarf when it was really cold, since it was rather wide and therefor not suitable for colder weather.
So I took the challenge and used the same yarn (two threads Sparkle byZeeman and 1 thread Royal by Zeeman held together) to knit another cowl, that would be closer to her neck. My first trial involved flaps and splits, but it looked awful, so I frogged that and knit this simple ribbed one.
Some Dutch readers told me that "drop stitch" is called "lazy wife's stitch" in Dutch. So what does that say about me and my cowls? Hmn.
Oh well. I did it again.
This time I used another pattern that I saw at Soulemama. It's different because it creates waves by doing double and triple yo's. I love how that looks.
I used one skein of Julia yarn by Zeeman on 7 mm needles. That was all I had and it makes a scarf long enough to wear under a coat.