Don’t worry, I’m not cross! It’s just some wordplay related to my most recent project.
I was looking for a quick and easy knit recently, and decided to create another BEBEB scarf. I have knitted that pattern twice before. One that I gave away to my sister in law and one that I kept for myself. It’s a relatively easy pattern – once you’ve got the hang of the brioche stitches, it’s smooth sailing and perfect tv knitting.
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I selected two skeins of Zitron Unisono yarn that had been languishing in my stash for a while already. I love the combination of cool red/fuchsia with green. These skeins were gradients, so I expected that to make things more interesting while knitting.
I cast on a few extra stitches compared to the previous scarves, because I wanted it to be wide enough. The yarn I was using was a bit thinner. It was wonderfully soft! Puk and Pippi agreed.
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While knitting, I noticed that the transitions in the gradients were actually rather sudden, so the resulting fabric looked a bit stripey instead of slowly changing colour. Meh, I didn’t like that. But the colours worked together well.
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When the yarn cakes became smaller and smaller, I started to worry whether the scarf would become long enough to be usable. I bound off as late as possible to get the most out of it. And then I knew for sure that it wasn’t long enough for me to really use it. Oh no!
Then I got an idea. What if I turned it into a cowl instead? I had not cast on provisionally, and I had already bound off, but it still sounded like a better idea than just throwing in the proverbial towel.
So I tinked back one row, and started picking up from the cast on row. Then I started thinking about how I could make this as nice a join as possible. It would definitely not become invisible, with the brioche and all.
In the end, I decided to make the join a feature, and to use the two colour braided bind off. That would give the cowl a clear right and wrong side, but that was fine with me.
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After binding off, the cowl was the perfect length to wrap around my neck twice. Success! So, it might be a scowl, but at least I’m not scowling anymore.
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