A couple of bits

Hiya from a.,

I have a couple pieces to show you today - the first being a cowl.  Now I made this cowl because one of the people in crew was working it and I thought it was pretty.  It was an easy project and to make sure that it was different from the other I used a yarn with different shades of blue and a lighter weight yarn as well.   This is the overall result:

Sorry if I look a little crazed, I hadn't had any coffee yet.  It's nothing fancy, just a simple stitch, but looks really pretty.
Here are a couple of close ups to show more detail:

With the second photo here you can see the stitch a bit more, and you might be able to tell, it is in fact the same stitch as the log cabin blanket that I showed you last time.  With a smaller hook and yarn it really does produce a different look.  The other thing that I am proud of with this cowl is that this is a custom dye job that I did.  It was a bare white yarn with tweedy flecks (you can't really see those in the photos).  What I did was use 3 three colours.  A basic blue, a blue tinted towards green, and a blue tinted towards purple.  I poured them over the yarn in stripes, and then when I turned over the yarn I switched the stripes around and this is what came out.
The other thing I have to show you is one of my favourite things to make - fingerless gloves.  I used striping yarn that I got for cheap and I love how they turned out.  Now a couple of the flbs teased me, queen of orderly things, that my stripes don't match, but I'm actually okay with that.  I didn't have a  specific pattern, I just worked on the one glove and made lots of notes so that the second would match and here are the results.

They came out cute and cozy and I love them.
That's what I have for you this week, next week I might actually have a sweater to show you.

Take care.