Leftovers Cowl

Yesterday I began going through project bags to make my UFO list for 2018. I came across this?

There was no indication in the bag what this project was intended to be. Since I knit from Knit Companion and don’t print the patterns, there was no pattern in the bag. I went to my Ravelry projects. Nope, not listed there either. 

This yarn was in the bag.

That didn’t offer much guidance but then I remembered . . thank goodness I have just a bit of memory left . . Leftovers Cowl. I had done a blog post about it almost three years ago. I didn’t get very far in three years, did I? 

This is the pattern. I really love it and I really want to finish it.

Here’s what I was thinking. Do any of you want to do this as a group project? There are 505 rounds so if we tried to do 10 per week, we could finish this in a year. I’ll work on it in the next few days and see how long it takes to do 10 rounds.

In the older blog post, I mentioned Loopy Cakes (please go back and read that post if you’re interested in doing this). Right now, Sheri (The Loopy Ewe) has all of their solid series yarn for $6 per skein (220 yards). That’s a heck of a buy! The Loopy Cakes are $38 for a set of 6 – 100 yard balls. So, with the cakes, you get 600+ yards for $38. Buying them individually, you get 1,320 yards for 36. Quite a few of the colors are sold out in the individual 220 yard skeins so you may need to supplement with some cakes.

As I understand the pattern, you need 1300 yards of Color A and 1300 yards of Color B. Color A and Color B simply mean background/foreground. In some rows A will be dark and B will be light and vice versa.

You can use fingering weight scraps. I believe the designer mentions that variegated yarn might not create as good of a contrast/definition as more solid yarns.

Anyway, I’m going to finish mine in 2018 and I would love to have some company working on this project. I’m not listing this as one of my UFO projects because this isn’t going to be a one month project but . . it will be finished by the end of 2018.