I rarely watch television, but I completely adored the first season of Next In Fashion back in ancient times and am eager to get stuck into season 2.

My challenge is that I’m unable to sit still in front of the television for any length of time unless I have a craft project to quiet me. There is no way I can do any sort of sewing without a magnifier and very bright light these days, so knitting it is!

I bought three balls of 10 ply (worsted/aran) baby alpaca in ocean (wonderfully soft and squishy) yesterday, trawled through my saved patterns and landed upon the City Creek Cowl. I’m a big fan of those travelling cables.

I cast on this evening (in prep for weekend television) and knitted the first 5 rows of the ribbing. It was very satisfying.

Except now that I grab the yarn band to add a link here, I find that I have bought 3 balls of 14ply (superchunky) baby alpaca. *face palm emoji*

What this means is that the cowl will likely be enormous.

I’ll see how I go when I’ve knit a bit more, but will likely unravel and reduce it to 3 pattern repeats, rather than the 4.

Or find another pattern.

There’s yet another lesson in here somewhere.

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