{"id":8977,"date":"2017-11-17T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2020-07-08T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:21:13","slug":"fair-isle-friday-swatch-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/?p=8977","title":{"rendered":"Fair Isle Friday: Swatch Cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So as well as being #FairIsleFriday<\/a>, today is also #FinishingFriday<\/a>, and I have just bound off a piece that has languished for at least a year. I\u2019ve got a LARGE pile of project that have been hibernating, and part of what I hope to learn through my month-long novel project (NaNoWriMo<\/a>) is to finish<\/strong> things. Starting in January, I aim to be working on only 1-3 knits at a time. So as this year closes, I will be putting some old projects to bed so new ones can begin!<\/p>\n

When I started this I imagined it would become a baby sweater. But I kept getting pulled away from it to other projects. So I decided this 120 stitch baby sweater body was about the right size for a cowl for me. I added one final pattern repeat, the ribbed edge and it was done. It’s 11.5″ tall and 20.5″ around.<\/p>\n

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Project Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pattern:<\/strong> Anthology<\/a> Swatch Cowl (Mine is 120 sts around rather than the 108 called for in the pattern)
\nYarn:<\/strong> Rainbow Heirloom Sweater<\/a> in various delicious colours (listed below)
\nNeedles:<\/strong> 3.5mm for ribbing, 4.0mm for colourwork<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just say I have a pretty significant stash of Rainbow Heirloom Sweater<\/a>, and Nina Davies, the dyer at Rainbow Heirloom, is one of my BFFs (best fiber friends) here in Edinburgh, so my stash is ever-growing despite my best attempts to keep it in control! I used the following colours:<\/p>\n

Reds from dark to light:<\/strong> black cherry, young temptress, fighting fish, and cardinal feather
\nDeep blues:<\/strong> wicked pacific, navy boy
\nLight blues:<\/strong> jewel sea, blue collar, granite pool<\/p>\n

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I absolutely love the combination of deep reds with hotter reds, and reddy oranges with teal blues. So this cowl is essentially my happy place when it comes to a colourwork palette. The stripes I like best of all are the tone-on-tone ones; the deep red + orange, and the deep teal + bright teal. But all the slight variations make for a complex and interesting whole.<\/p>\n

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Charts: If you want to knit the cowl as I did, I worked chart A, B, C, B, A, B, C, B, D with 1″ 2×2 ribbed hems at the start and end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The truth is I really like using LOADS of colours in my multi-colour pieces. This isn\u2019t always the most practical from a design standpoint (I understand that knitters buying yarns specifically for a given design might balk at buying 12 colours, where 3-4 seems slightly more reasonable!). But what I suggest is that you can build up palettes from your existing stash and scraps, rather than buying all of the yarns you\u2019ll need for a colourwork project all at once. Keeping a collection of scraps, organized by yarn weight<\/a>, can really unlock the colourwork goddess within.<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t already tried out the free Anthology<\/a> hat & cowl pattern it’s time to try! It makes a great swatch for our Strange Brew sweater recipe<\/a>, perhaps now is the time!<\/p>\n

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Are you ready to get started?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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More Colourful from TCK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Originally I thought this cowl would be a baby sweater…but sometimes a project will decide when it’s done. I added some ribbing and called it a cowl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2970212,"featured_media":8983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[697557662],"tags":[43752],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-knits","tag-anthology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1z4ty-2kN","builder_content":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.tincanknits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20171117-img_8899-d.jpg?fit=1600%2C2400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2970212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13169,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/13169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tincanknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}