A Mobious Cowl

I need something quick to knit across the New Year. I am hoping to have bigger projects to knit in January when I have had time to sort out my stash of yarn and yet I need something to keep my fingers busy in the mean time.

I have knitted Harmonia's Rings Cowl before, and whilst I am not fond of knitting on circular needles, I have found that I wear the finished product constantly. It is so useful as it is cosy round my neck, but also the back can be lifted and worn over my head if the need suddenly arises.

This seemed like an excellent project for over the New Year and I managed to find some remnants of yern with which to knit it. I am not sure there is sufficient yarn to finish it, but if necessary I can add another colour around the edges.

I had to watch the Mobious cast-on video listed in the pattern in order to remind myself how to do this type of cast-on. It fascinates me how this turns out. It is rather difficult to get the hang of in the first place, but once you have got it the actual knitting is quite easy. It took several attempts to count the stitches to check if I had the right number, it is easy to get lost, but I managed it in the end.

I was given a new yarn bowl for Christmas which I am thrilled with, it is so useful.

Midnight Plummage Finished

I have at last added the collar and finished the jacket/coat.

In order to add the collar I picked up the stitches around the neck, starting at the centre of the front fill in, round the back and finished at the centre of the other crossover front. I then proceeded to knit garter stitch for 32 rows. I had hoped to take photos of just the collar, but no matter how I took the photo, the dark midnight blue of the collar wouldn't show up in the photo so here is a photo of the whole thing :-

Next came the decisions over which buttons to use. When I was about half way through knitting the coat I started to wish I had chosen a multi coloured wool for the feathers. The two blues look very nice, but all those photos on the website show some wonderful variations in colour. I therefore decided to introduce another colour by way of the buttons. Apart from the buttons up the front closure I also added a row of them down the centre point of the back:-