Now that I’m all enthusiastic about knitting again I’ve been considering the rayures cowl for my next knitting project. It’s been in my ravelry favourites for years and 900+ other knitters surely can’t be wrong.

But before I invest in yarn I sensibly decided that I should familiarise myself with two of the called for techniques that I hadn’t used before – lest I loathe them or find them impossible to execute.

So this afternoon I grabbed some scraps of yarn and learned a provisional cast on using this tutorial.

It was delightfully straightforward with my 15 practice stitches. Hopefully it is equally as straightforward at scale!

Tomorrow I attack grafting two live ends together.

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