Clairiere Cowl

I almost didn't photograph this one.  It is a little cowl that I bought the yarn for at the end of last winter, and worked on here and there all summer.  It was a great traveling project because it was small and easily fitted into a bag.  I took it to England when we went in July, and ended up ripping everything out and starting fresh because I made a mistake and couldn't fix it because it was in the round.  It was a shame because I was a couple inches in by then, but what are you going to do?

I made this from Malabrigo Rios in the Glazed Carrot colorway, which is a deep burnt orange with some subtle variation.  I mostly went with the Rios because it was the right color, not because I have a particular thing about Rios (although I do like it a lot).  I wanted it originally for my canvas daisy dress (in my winter rotation) but it works well with my fall clothing too.  As much as I love red, I think I actually get better use out of orange in my closet.

The cowl is sort of reversible, but I like the faux cables on the "right" side the best.  It is an easy four row pattern and while I normally dislike working in the round, this was fine.  I used exactly one skein of yarn and it is just the right size.  I'd make the pattern again, I think.  There is a lot of nice texture to give it interest and the knitting wasn't boring, but it wasn't too complicated that I had to think about what I was doing every moment.  As I said: the perfect traveling project.

After a couple of stinker sewing projects, it is nice to have a viable finished object (although in truth I finished it a few weeks ago; it just now cooled down enough to wear it!)