Living in New England means snow. We’ve had more than ample proof of that, with a healthy over-under pool going on when it might all be gone. (At this point, I’m in for Easter – bearing in mind that it’s the latest Easter can be …) I have a lot of hair, and one of the few things I hate about it is when it gets snowy wet.
Fenced In, in Romney
That won’t be a problem now that I have Fenced In. I chose this terrific one-skein pattern by Tracey Kay for my bulky Romney yarn for this month’s wool-along in the Knitter’s Book of Wool group on Ravelry. I was looking for a project with enough texture to show off the properties of this very smooth wool, and the reverse stockinette background was just the right canvas. I also wanted something simple enough where the tonal variations in the colorway did not detract from the finished product.
In addition, I’ve been enjoying the many variations of cabling without a cable needle. This project gave me more good practice.
Standing out in sharp relief
It was a wicked fast knit — just four days from cast-on to bind-off. That is, after all, one of the benefits of working with bulky yarn ~ something I rarely do these days. I used all but 2 yards of my 90-yard skein from Foxhill Farm in Lee, Mass., to make the small adult size with no modifications.
Project marriage score: 9.5 (Yes, this is something new. I may as well start scoring the matches.)
Probably the most interesting observation from the month’s exercise was how unwilling the yarn was to become saturated with water. It just didn’t want to get really wet, and took a good soak. I blocked it over an inverted vase with a couple of plastic grocery bags on the top to provide some height/ventilation and prevent creasing.
I can’t decide which is better:
- having a really warm hat that will keep my hair dry
- actually completing our wool-along project on time two months in a row
Before you start applauding … if you’re keeping score at home, you know that I am still working on last February’s project … which, in all fairness, I did not start until months later … but still.
Tags: cables, hat, KBOW, knittersbookofwool, oneskein, romney, wool, woolalong
December 31, 2011 at 2:23 pm |
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January 3, 2012 at 4:42 pm |
Beauty! Could you share a link to the pattern? The one you have above doesn’t work. Thanks!
January 3, 2012 at 5:32 pm |
Olga – The link does work – it is set up through the website http://www.ravelry.com. Go there first and set up a username and the pattern is free. Thanks for visiting! NutmegOwl