Unfortunately, the evil empire of Google no longer allows me to link photos from the evil empire of Yahoo. You'd think they'd form some sort of unholy alliance.
Chouette The pattern had a chart and written instructions. I would like to say this made me an adept chart reader but that would be a big fat lie. Charts confuse me. You would think they wouldn’t, since I knit left to right, as I read. I really struggled to reverse the topmost cable which made the horns of the owl. There was a significant amount of frogging and swearing and do-over. I think however, that I learned enough about cables for this to be of benefit in my next cabling project.
Chouette The pattern had a chart and written instructions. I would like to say this made me an adept chart reader but that would be a big fat lie. Charts confuse me. You would think they wouldn’t, since I knit left to right, as I read. I really struggled to reverse the topmost cable which made the horns of the owl. There was a significant amount of frogging and swearing and do-over. I think however, that I learned enough about cables for this to be of benefit in my next cabling project.
A friend of mine had a rough year last year and shortly
before Christmas/Solstice she put up a picture of Chouette on facebook and said
facetiously “Who wants to knit this for me?”
Well, I DO! I had never knitted
cables before, and this is the classic owl cable so it seemed like a good
starter cable. (SNORTY SNORT SNORT).
There were some keystone kop-like antics in making
this. My kid spilled macaroni on the
first skein of yarn. Luckily I bought 2
because I thought 1 was pushing it with the yardage listed on the pattern. The
yarn I used is Brown Sheep Lamb’s Pride Bulky.
I’m not usually a fan of single plies because so often they pill if you
raise an eyebrow at them. This yarn,
though, gave me a problem I had not encountered before. As I cast it on, it unspun and broke.
TWICE! I ended up pausing several times in the final cast on attempt in
order to respin it against my leg. I
don’t know if this is peculiar to this yarn or peculiar to lefties knitting
this yarn or if it is because I am a lefty mirrored knitter. The yarn also sheds like crazy. Fuzz everywhere. Do not knit beige yarn in dark clothes! I will say though that I don’t find this a
scratchy yarn and I think once it has a little soak with some hair conditioner
that it will be soft enough for anyone to wear next to skin. I hope it is anyhow, or I will have to
instruct the recipient to line it or mail it back to me for lining.
I knitted this on 2 shorter circulars as I am not a fan of
either DPNs or Magic Loop for hats.
Since the yarn is a wholesome oatmeal color, I used my Harmonies for
ultimate contrast between yarn and needles.
I highly recommend that to others with powerfully corrected vision.
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