I was inspired by the fabulous Ilene of Much Love, Illy and her love for mustard colored accent pieces, so when she very patiently dealt with my first blog advertising endeavor, I decided to send her a little something. I had some designs floating around in my head, but this one spoke to me as really being her style, so the Illy Cowl was born. (picture stolen from Ilene, with her permission of course) Here's a couple close-ups. It's an easy, fairly open lace-work pattern that looks far more complicated than it actually is. It's also lightweight and comfortable on. I played around and took some pics before I mailed it off. Last week I worked on a purple version, which I inadvertently made wider than the original. (Nothing like screwing up your own pattern, huh?) I forgot that I only put one repeat of garter rows between the lace repeats, oh well. The mix up caused me to run out of yarn in the middle of THE VERY LAST ROW. Sooooo frustrating! And it was during
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The 2 I did were a yellow cotton chenille hanging diamonds (just k's and p's) and then the Lion Brand DC in pink Cotton Rich (mostly cotton with soem acrylic- very heavy, maybe too heavy?) SO thanx for that Lion Brand pattern!
Maybe some (crap I spelled it wrong the first time on this, too) college ones for Jess' friends? Where did you get the OK pattern? Of course I am probably not THAT lazy that I couldn't figure it out myself.