26 January 2010
Dashing
Materials: 1 skein Tahki Donegal Tweed (100% Pure New Wool) in Black (890). Size 5 needles. Pattern: Dashing.
Time: A couple of weeks, largely dormant.
Cost: $20 for two balls of yarn, one of which I didn’t use.
Pete’s been borrowing a pair of my fingerless gloves to wear around the house this winter, so I offered to make him a pair of his own under the guise of a birthday present. We stopped by the yarn store during what must have been their Boxing Day sale, as we got a couple of skeins of Tahki Tweed at 50% off. This is a really simple project, so it’s particularly well-suited for a yarn with character, like the tweed.
Due to my ginormous gauge, I had to go down to a size 5 needle and reduce to 35 stitches around (omitting the second cable in the second cable round) to render the circumference sufficiently small.
We snapped these photos this morning right before he left for work. “Why don’t you hold some D&D dice in them?” I suggested. “How about I pretend to write something?” he replied disdainfully.
