Happy New Year to my lovely followers and welcome to anyone who is visiting for the 1st time.
I’m calling by to say that I’m still thinking of you all even though I’ve had a couple of months away. It’s been good break, I’ve enjoyed family time and started new crafts.
On New Years Eve I decided that I wanted to knit myself a cowl from a ball of arun yarn I had in my stash. It’s a gorgeous grey with flecks of pink, blue and green in it.
So I began casting onto 6mm needles making it as wide as I wanted the cowl to be deep.
Knitting continuous purl stitches is fantastically mindless especially when watching Christmas films, taking occasional sips of hot tea and eating Quality Street chocolates.
I finally knitted the width of cowl I wanted to last night, casted it off and sewed the 2 edges together to make a knitted tube.
Today I got to take the finished cowl out on a tour of one of my favourite places – the lake at Mount Stewart.
It was lovely and toasty to wear and I’ve got loads of yarn left over, maybe I’ll make some matching wrist warmers.
Hope to not leave it so long until my next post.
Jean
The Creative Pixie 
Happy New year,first visit to ur blog, it sounds like an awesome cowl.😊
it looks very snuggly…I’ve eaten far too much chocolates and biscuits…I now need to eat healthily again, I am craving vegetables lol
I know what you mean, I’m beginning to miss ‘normal’ food.
Looks awesome and nice and warm!
That’s a very subtle yarn, very much unlike what I usually knit with, but it really works 🙂 It looks very nice and snuggly there 🙂
Great cowl! I recently made one for myself – I now prefer it to a scarf as it fits more snugly and there are no bulky ends to tuck in!
It’s very easy to wear, I would sometimes forget to take it off.
So pretty, and what a lovely idea! Such a pretty pink coat, too!
Hugs,
Marianne
Thanks, sometimes I think it’s too pink – I like to fade into the background 🙂
You are so creative Jean, the cowl looks great. Glad to see you back!