{"id":1020,"date":"2011-01-16T18:40:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-01-16T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T23:40:29","slug":"something-for-me-morningside-neckwarmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"Something for me: Morningside Neckwarmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to take a break from mitten knitting and make myself something. A friend recently kidded me for wearing a “store bought” woven scarf. She said something along the lines of “why aren’t you wearing something you made?”<\/p>\n

Truth: the scarves I’ve made were boring, or seemingly took forever to make. Or both. A possible solution? Make a neckwarmer instead!<\/p>\n

I’ve had Jared Flood’s Morningside Neckwarmer<\/a> in my queue for a long while, and aside from looking good, it has the added attraction of being in a stitch pattern of which I know nothing. Learning new knitting skills = not being bored with a project!<\/p>\n

I cast on a few nights ago and by the second round had run into a brick wall. Naturally I kept going until the end of the third round (stubborn, or merely thick-headed? You<\/em> decide!), and finally broke down and frogged it. I think that what had happened was that I dropped a stitch or made one too many yarnovers; at any rate, my stitch count was off and I couldn’t follow the stitch pattern, which depends on a slipped-stitch-and-YO combo being in the right place for a K2Tog on the next row.<\/p>\n

After a second cast on (and I’m a fan of this double-strand cast on, it makes for a nice, even, comfy-looking edge) I started knitting again the next night. This time most of the stitches where where they should have been, and I was able to see what was going on with the fabric. Where I missed several YO in random places I was able to make a “save” by picking up the ladder and putting it where it should be. I’m about 12 rows in now, and if you ignore the bottom inch of the tube where I had some lingering problems, you can start to make out the ribbing from the brioche stitch.<\/p>\n

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My first attempt to knit a brioche stitch pattern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve never knitted in-the-round on a 16″ circular except when doing Magic Loop, which by now is my standard knitting method for most of my projects. I started wondering if this little 5″ circle would expand to fit over my head, so I transferred the work to a long cable from my Denise set. Uh, yeah. It’s very big. Much larger than I expected from the pattern photos. I’m going to knit until it’s the recommended five inches in length, then transfer to a longer cable and try the thing on, but I suspect that I’ll end up making this a lot taller than the pattern calls for, to give it a better chance to give me good coverage and warmth under my coat’s collar and at the top of the zipper.<\/p>\n

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\"Jared<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to take a break from mitten knitting and make myself something. A friend recently kidded me for wearing a “store bought” woven scarf. She said something along the lines of “why aren’t you wearing something you made?” Truth: the scarves I’ve made were boring, or seemingly took forever to make. Or both. 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