Five months have passed...

since I have posted a single finished project. Would you believe in those past five months I have finished seventeen things? SEVENTEEN! What happened? It used to take me ages to finish a project. True, I was always busy with work but lately I feel that whenever I'm not working, I am trying to fit knitting into every spare moment.

I'm going to break up these posts into types of projects and try for one post a day this weekend so that you all aren't bombarded with projects.

First up: COWLS

I am obsessed. Living in Louisiana, it doesn't really stay cold for long, at least not for my standards. But when it is cold, it is a bone-chilling, soggy, miserable kind of cold. Cowls are the perfect things for those days when you don't want to be bothered with scarf tails hanging all over the place. I've knit three in the past few months in the coziest most scrumptious yarns.

I knit the Eternity Scarf by Michelle Wang in April when I went to Ohio to see a friend. We had both bought the yarn back in December and she made hers in a few days, while I procrastinated casting on despite how gorgeous hers was. The pattern was a dream to knit, easy to remember and made for awesome knitting while sitting outside little coffee houses, drinking ice coffee and people-watching. I used around 250 yds of Malabrigo Merino Worsted in Frank Ochre (which is now one of my all time favorite colors). This is probably my favorite cowl of the three.

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The Aspen Neck Cowl by Andrea Tung has been on my to-knit list forever. I think this might actually be a finished project from 2009 but I never posted about it. I had seen one from a fellow Raveler knit in Blue Sky Alpacas Melange (which is a DREAM) in a yummy honey color. When I went to my LYS, I searched high and low but only found a few colors, one of which was an equally delicious looking pumpkin orange. Of course, I snatched 3 skeins up and quickly got to work on this cowl. The yarn was fantastic to work with and I absolutely love the long soft fibers of  alpaca. I want to snuggle in this cowl all winter long, weather allowing. It is the coziest cowl I've knit so far. If I ever find the honey color, I'm more than likely going to knit another of these up right away.

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Early on in my knitting career, I bought two skeins of Malabrigo yarn Gruesa in Lettuce, not knowing what I was going to knit with it. I started a stockinette scarf and soon learned about how stockinette curls. I frogged that scarf and didn't touch the yarn for almost a year. Then I made a boring k2p2 rib cowl that was too big and stiff to be used practically. What was I going to do with this yarn?! Some surfing on Ravelry lead me to the gorgeous Dolores Park Cowl and I knew it was the perfect project for the yarn. I wanted to use up every last inch. Upon finishing, I knit up a coffee cup cozy to gift to one of my favorite customers and of course gave to her without taking a picture of it first. I've been known to wear this cowl while sitting at home watching Netflix and knitting. It is perfect aside from the color. What do I wear it with?! Regardless, I love it.

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Stay tuned for parts 2, 3,4and 5 this weekend featuring hats, more hats, shawls and mittens.

xx