• Free Patterns
    • 3 way neck warmer
    • A smidge of mohair
    • Asymmetric wrap
    • Bunny cowl
    • Flecks of colour
    • Garden stripes
    • lace cowl
    • Learn to knit mitts
    • Mohair wrap
    • Motorbike muffler
    • Mottled mohair scarf
    • Quick and Easy Shawly scarfy thing
    • Reversible cable scarf
    • Strawberry ripples
    • Summer lace stole
    • Tapered scarf
    • Textured cowl
    • Two colour cowl
  • Year of Lace

Wenswoolgathering

~ Thoughts on projects past present and future

Wenswoolgathering

Category Archives: cowls

2012:UFOs off the needles and in use!

December 28, 2012

This year I managed to finish five garments that were started a long time ago: The wide collared jacket was …

Continue reading »

Cuddly Cowl

August 13, 2012

My third Ravellenic games project. I made this cowl to go with the mitts I made recently.  I had to …

Continue reading »

Week 1 of the Ravellenic Games

August 5, 2012

First project down was the silk/cotton woven scarf.  This was started while watching the opening ceremony and finished 18 hour …

Continue reading »

Revisiting the Asymmetric wrap

July 8, 2011

I have just been told that I wrote the Asymmetric wrap pattern as a garter stitch wrap instead of the …

Continue reading »

2010 the lace wardrobe challenge

December 18, 2010

10 different lace garments in 2010. I knew I wouldn’t finish I did do a fair bit though. I completed …

Continue reading »

When instant gratification takes too long…

November 4, 2010

Knit a cowl.  They are great for quick projects.  I found Wham Bam thank you lamb on Ravelry, it is …

Continue reading »

How does it wear? Jo Sharp Alpaca Kid Lustre

November 1, 2010

Garment:  Cowl Fibre: Kid Mohair 40%, Merino 30%, Alpaca 30% Date completed: December 2008 Tension: knitted at a looser tension …

Continue reading »

Instant gratification

October 25, 2010

Bought the wool on saturday. Finished on monday. Textured cowl knitted at a looser tension in Morris Quartet which is …

Continue reading »

Finally finished with buttons added

May 8, 2010

I’ve been using up odd balls of yarn that I have in stash making small neckwarmers, cowls etc. This one …

Continue reading »

Shiny

January 31, 2010
← Older posts

Goals

April

1. Finish my Wurm

2. Get to the bust line on my v neck tunic

3. Weave a scarf that includes sari silk

RSS Recent FOs on Ravelry

  • Not just another scarf
  • Wurm
  • O bracelet
  • felt hat
  • pumpkin cowl
  • geometry
  • spicy spring
  • The safety scarf
  • Fi's scarf
  • Lace challenge 2 - bamboo triangle

Recent Comments

Wen on A linen tunic for summer
Joyce Stewart on A linen tunic for summer
Victoria Charkut on Around the corner
Wen on The Safety scarf
peaceweaving on The Safety scarf

One of my books:

Victorian Lace TodayVictorian Lace Today by Jane Sowerby
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An interesting look at lace knitting in 19th century London with patterns updated and translated into modern US lingo.

A lovely collection of shawls and scarves beautifully photographed.

I will be knitting more from this book.

View all my reviews

Categories

Something I've been working on/playing with

The same lace weight alpaca/silk is in all 3 scarves. Different textures, different colours, different results. #handmade #handknit

More Photos
Instagram

Find me at:

  • Flickr
  • Ravelry
  • Twitter

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 226 other followers

Twitter Updates

  • My new babies instagram.com/p/ZhAHhnBvuE/ 1 day ago
  • It makes a great warm cowl and sits really well when scrunched into place #handknit instagram.com/p/Zc3vF_Bvix/ 2 days ago
  • 1 lace weight skein - 3 different scarves wp.me/ptdYI-Nm 3 days ago
Follow Me on Pinterest

From the past

Blog Stats

  • 251,015 hits

Cluster Map

Locations of visitors to this page

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Chateau by Ignacio Ricci.

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 226 other followers

Powered by WordPress.com