ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

I have been looking at autumn / fall fashion trends 2011 instead of knitting; and I’m not really feeling like writing a report just because I would rather be knitting, so a list will have to suffice this time.

SO:
Capes are still in – and still my favourite

Frills and flounces – they are also in, I play with frills and flounces sometimes, but not too often.

Poncho – are warm and they also cool – that is why I like Ponchos

Cowls – I am glad that all my cowls are still in

Fur – fun fur and I guess other fur if you have it or want it.

Fingerless gloves – and as you know I love funky fingerless gloves.

Cables –

Split sleeves

See through sections

Obi style belts

AND

and Hot Pink
and Black, Grey, White and Red.

Of course he can, and my Best Beloved has this set. Hat and neck warmer in a rugged yarn (no label sorry), of a masculine kind, well a masculine colour. It is a gorgeous green with a multitude of green flecks.

The neck warmer / cowl / halsmudd or what ever you call it – sits well on the shoulders and keeps the wind and cold out of the neck area. It is great under a heavy jacket.

The shape looks a little like a ruff from the Elizabethan times (around 1560s) but I won’t tell Best Beloved that. The ruff was a fairly useless piece of frippery, used to give the laundry maids some extremely difficult work and didn’t protect the neck from anything at all.

My neck warmer is a practical piece, entirely suitable for modern living in a very cold environment and can be laundered easily.

The design is of course unisex.

I am seriously procrastinating.

Here are the Connie Colourscape Cowls as well as the original cowl in Sean Sheep Armytage. The pattern is sooo close now, but I have no model. She went to Ireland in October and fell in love and disappeared. I/we, Best Beloved and I had worked quite hard to arrange for her to be my model and she was so extraordinarily photogenic.

It does make it rather difficult to add a beautiful photograph of the cowl for the pattern. When I am back in New Zealand later this year that will no longer be a problem for me.

The smaller cowl I am keeping for moi – it is to be mine as it matches perfectly one hat I purchased 2 winters ago here in the Netherlands.

Connie Colourscape Cowl

80gm, 100gm, 120gm Rowan Colourscape Cowls

Cowl / little Poncho or Wimple

Cowl

What do you do when there just is too much stuff to deal with?

It seems that I knit cowls and capelets.

The colourscape cowls : The smallest cowl took approx 80grams or about 130 metres, My middle cowl took 100grams or approx 160 metres, and my 120gram cowl took approx 195 metres.

Sean Sheep Armytage Cowl in the colour Sticky Date took 6 x 50gram balls.

Colourscape is a roving type yarn with an artisan look and rustic appeal which is spun and made in Britain. Designed by renowned textile artist, Kaffe Fassett each hank gives a single repeat rainbow like effect which is why I love the yarn. Rowan have said the Colourscape Chunky yarn is probably the most unique yarn in their range. As it is blended by hand it can mean that the yarn varies from hank to hank both in colour and thickness. The weight specified on the ball band may not be exact and there can be a variance of 4-5 grams.

I have knitted 2 cowls from the chunky yarn – and sadly there was such a discrepancy in the yarn quantity that I cannot say my cowl can be created with only one 100 gram hank of the chunky yarn.

When I knitted my first cowl I loved it and so did some of you. The long colour change in this chunky yarn gives each hank a single colour repeat in a rainbow like effect, which is one reason for attempting the cowl with only one hank. When I knitted the second to test my pattern I ran out of yarn long before the planned completion of the cowl.

I then weighed the cowls and the first weighed in at 119 grams and the second cowl – weighed in at 82 grams hence the problem despite being created from 100 gram hanks of chunky yarn. I will undo the bind off on the second cowl and continue knitting with another hank, and we’ll see how the colour change works going onto that second hank.

I will also reknit the pattern with another chunky yarn with a weighed 100 grams and see how I get on with that. If that creates a gorgeous chunky cowl – then I will publish that pattern. If not then “C’est la vie”

I don’t think I should have looked in other languages – but here you go.

According to google translate in Danish the cowl is hætten, neck warmer is hals varmere, the Swedish halsmudd is a neck cuff, and so on and on.

Should I explore this? – maybe not