“As long as you're still smiling…”

“…there's nothing more I need”

SECRET PROJECT ALERT

CB started his new job a few weeks before we moved house, which means his commute was stupidly long for a while. That, combined with my stupidly short commute, meant I had roughly an hour and a half each day to myself before he would arrive home and we could have dinner.

Other than eating as much watermelon as I could in that time, I wanted to use it productively. Also, as we fly home from our holidays on his birthday, any knitted presents would have to be completed super early!

So I put two and two together and have started knitting a Honey Cowl by Antonia Shankland (Ravelry link here)

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I’m using the Rowan Summerlite DK  I have in my stash (colourway Ocean). I bought this originally to knit a Kim Hargreaves top, but decided not to in the end (can’t remember why now though) and have since used some of the wool on a cowl for my Dad (blogged about here) so it’s nice to be using up the rest. It’s a lovely yarn to work with, nice a soft, and creates a good drape.

The pattern is good, quite repetitive though. I’m using a lighter weight wool than the pattern calls for which means I’ll be knitting more rounds (annoyingly) but hopefully it will; be worth the effort in the end.

*Quote from David Bowie