Category: finished object

  • Beauchamp Cowl

    The Beauchamp Cowl is up for sale! And of course, I’ll be donating 50% of the purchase price of this pattern (and all my patterns) to MSF and the Canadian Red Cross for Haiti relief, through the end of January.

    Beauchamp Cowl

    This fast and fun cowl is snuggly, warm, and a great intro to stranded colourwork knitting to boot! Worked in either fingering weight or DK weight yarn, this is a great project to use up all those little bits of sock yarn or a special fibre.

    FINISHED SIZE
    19 inches / 48 cm around, 10 inches / 25.5 cm deep

    FINGERING WEIGHT VERSION (Shown in Koigu KPPPM)
    158 yards / 143 m of main colour (MC). This is the background colour.
    84 yds / 76 m of contrast colour (CC) 4 yards / 3.6 m of yarn is used for each CC stripe.
    US 2.5 / 3 mm 16 inch circular needle

    Gauge: 32 sts and 40 rnds = 4in square

    Beauchamp Cowl - DK weight

    DK WEIGHT VERSION (shown in Handmaiden 4ply Cashmere)
    130 yards / 118 m of main colour (MC). This is the background colour.
    65 yards / 59 m of contrast colour (CC)
    US 6 / 4 mm 16 inch circular needle

    Gauge: 24 sts and 28 rnds = 4in square

    Beauchamp Cowl - fingering weight

    3 page PDF file includes chart, photos, and instructions on working either a fingering weight or DK weight version of this cowl. This pattern would be great for a first stranded colourwork project!

    Available through Ravelry, payment by Paypal (no account is required for either).

    $5.00 CAD

    Note: As of July 5, 2010, sales tax will be added to this price for all Canadian residents only. The rates are: British Columbia 12%; Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador 13%; Nova Scotia 15%; and everywhere else in Canada 5% GST. Tax will be added in the Paypal payment process.

  • twice as nice

    I’ve got two new cowls off the needles and around my neck! Well, not at the same time or anything. Both are my own pattern, which I’ve named the Beauchamp Cowl.

    Fingering Weight Beauchamp Cowl

    Fingering weight version in lots of colours of Koigu.

    DK weight Beauchamp Cowl

    DK weight version in 2 colours of Handmaiden 4ply cashmere – which, by the way, is really one of the most beautiful cashmeres I’ve worked with! I love it so.

    The pattern is done and is just being proofread and test knit and all that good stuff. I’m just itching to get some new stuff out to you all!

  • first FO of 2010

    And it’s a good one!

    finally off the needles

    I finally picked up a project I started back in 2008 (yikes, thanks to my Rav page I actually know when I started it) with yarn that I’d received for Christmas 2007. It’s gorgeous yarn, Handmaiden Swiss Mountain Cashmere and Silk. And since I have people who know what I like, I received 2 skeins from one person and a third in the same colour from someone else!

    I decided on a simple tube scarf and to just knit until I was done the yarn. Turns out that wasn’t quite enough to capture my attention, I suppose, because I put it down for a loooong awhile and just recently unearthed it from the (okay, a) bin of unfinished projects. I had less than half a skein to go!

    YIP 005/365

    Okay, I know I don’t look that pleased, but I am! I finished it right up, wove in the ends and now I have a new scarf. It isn’t actually warm enough for right now, but hey, whatever. It’s still awfully pretty. I knit it as a stockinette tube with a purl stitch at the beginning and midpoint of the round, but after I’d finished I decided I like the purl side out better!

    And I finished with just a teeny amount left over. Satisfying, eh?

    YIP 002/365