Me and Lady E
I finished another project today. This is the Lady Eleanor from Scarf Style. I love this pattern. A while back a made a narrowed version of it that I'm going to gift to someone at Christmas this year. This is knitted with Noro Cashmere Island in colorway #2. I like the colorway, but it was real uneven in terms of every color showing up in every skein. Some skeins had lots of green in them, and some had no green. Some skeins had red in them, and some had no red.
I had to be careful to alternate the skeins so that I ended up with an even distribution of colors. The Cashmere Island is a worsted weight yarn, while the yarn called for in the pattern was a bulky weight yarn, so I definitely wasn't getting gauge. I knitted with size 8 circular needles, which is the appropriate sized needle for the yarn. I didn't attempt to adjust to get gauge. This means that instead of being 23" wide as called for by the pattern, my stole is only 15" wide. I actually prefer the narrower width so that I can wrap the stole easier. I got the full length of 70" by using almost a full 11 skeins of yarn for the actual knitting. I used a 12th skein to add the fringe.
I'm not generally a fan of fringe, but I do like the fringe on this wrap and it really gives the wrap a finished look. About halfway through adding the fringe though I almost regretted the decision to add it. Tying all of those knots was a real pain. The one thing that I did skip on this project was blocking. I went back and forth on this decision.
Blocking it would have given it some more length and width, but one of the things that I love about this pattern is the bumpy almost quilted texture that the knitting has and from my previous experience with this pattern, I know when it's blocked the knitting flattens out and loses that lovely quilted quality. I do love how this project turned out. The only question now is how much I'll actually wear it. It's a bit fussier than how I normally dress, but too much yarn and time went into this for it to sit idle in a drawer.
I guess it'll help that I'm teaching next year so I'll be dressing up more. I'll be more likely to wear it. Now I'm just sad that I'll have to wait months until it gets cold again to try it out.
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