Leaves of Grass 1.0

I owe Kelly a knit.  I awarded some 1000th post prizes over at my other blog and Kelly was a winner.  She chose "knit" as her loot category.  I asked her for color suggestions and one of the colors she mentioned was yellow.  I had a skein of buttery yellow Cascade 220 in my stash.  (A single skein plucked out of the Modern Yarn sale basket in their old location.)

I pattern crawled on Ravelry, but nothing leapt out at me.  One thing led to another and I pulled out my Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Volume One.  I found a pattern I liked called Leaves of Grass.  Inpsired, I did some rudimentary math, cast on for a cowl with the Cascade 220, and knit, knit, knit.

You can see from the photo on top that the cowl was way too big.  I did finish it so I could try it on, and it was, indeed, way too big.  Victorian neck ruff big.

Another thing: Cascade 220, in my opinion, is too scratchy for a cowl.  It's a great workhorse yarn, but I prefer something more luxe to cozy my neck up to.

My son helped me frog the cowl and rewind the yarn.  Loved that :-)