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Maybe, just maybe, I'm getting the hang of this time-management thing. A WIP Wednesday post? On a Wednesday?
With the Birthday Socks done (finally -- stay tuned for the FO Friday post!), I get to turn my attention to other projects and ideas - and, I got handed a new one, this time, from Patreon, of all things!
Patreon put up a challenge about redeeming coal as a holiday gift, and, I immediately got some ideas.
My first thought was that it would have to be something fast to knit, since whatever I'm making has to be done by the 10th of December, at the latest. I originally thought I'd do another version of my Snowdrop Lace Cowl, in one of the many, many yarn colourways called *'charcoal' or *'coal.'
But this seemed, honestly, too easy. So I spent looking through images of coal and charcoal, thinking I could get some artistic inspiration that way. One of the things that popped up on an internet image search was the "Coal" entry on Wikipedia, -- specifically, a diagram of an example chemical structure of one type of coal.
An hour later, with some help from Stitchmastery, I had a knit and purl knitting chart based on that diagram! It's abstract, of course, but, that's the idea! I've only just started, so you can't really see the stitch pattern yet, but, I'm hoping it will work out!
Then it was just finding some stash yarn - in this case I went with Twin Oaks Farms Worsted 2-Ply in "Light Blue" (I still wanted something in the grey-ish colour family. I hadn't been looking forward to knitting with black, so this solved that problem too!)
Needles are my *4.5 mm Clover Takumi Bamboo needles; they're basically perfect for this sort of longer cowl! Stitch markers are the Rose Stitch Markers from *NotionsEmporium, to mark both the start/end of round and the pattern repeat. (There's only two repeats of this pattern, it ended up being quite a wide stitch repeat!)
So, yeah, here's my go at Patreon's attempt at redeeming Coal as a gift! Wish me luck!
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