New Pattern: Blackberry Cowl

Pattern: Blackberry Cowl (direct PDF link)
Yarn: 1 ball of Debbie Bliss Donegal Aran Tweed in #08
Needles: 5 mm KP Options

New pattern! Blackberry knits up in an afternoon with only 90 yards of yarn, making it great for both stashbusting and last-minute gifts. It’s a close but not tight fit for maximum warmth.

Most of the time I prefer neckwarmers to full scarves. They slip down too easily, though, and don’t cover as much as I’d like them to. I never really thought about it before I made my first one a few weeks ago, but cowls do seem like the obvious solution to the issue; I wore this new one yesterday and it kept me snug without any fiddling.

Yarn overs make forgiving and flexible buttonholes, so button size isn’t stated in the pattern. I blocked my cowl out first, then decided on some clear semi-sphere shank buttons that I’d had in the button jar for ages.

In a phenomentally stupid move, I managed to upload the wrong version of the PDF to Ravelry. More than 80 people downloaded it before I realised the mistake. Argh. The chart was fine, but there was an error in the wrong-side row of the written directions. This is not going to make people have faith in my pattern-writing abilities, especially at a time when I want to start testing out some of the more complex patterns I’ve charted, in hopes of eventually offering them for sale.

Bah.

In other news, I’m working on a Melusine (Rav link) beret in a shockingly bright turquoise. It’s cheerful.