December's project

Then, in December, I got back my King's Road Cowl that appeared in Fall 2017 Love of Knitting. Great time of year to get it back! I've been wearing it a lot, and I like it.

King's Road Cowl I designed for Love of Knitting magazine, Fall 2017

My eldest came home for Thanksgiving, too! He's a freshman at University, and I've really missed him.

There's very little I can knit for him that he will wear. He doesn't wear many sweaters and is pretty much a minimalist. So, when he started speaking rhapsodies about The Last Jedi movie, and I saw this project on Ravelry, I cast on immediately.

This is The Star Wars Double Knit Scarf on Ravelry by Jessica Goddard. She knit the scarf and has the charts on the link, but doesn't teach how to do double knit.

Behind the neck is my favorite part: the Death Star and the Millenium Falcon

Well, I thought I had double knit color work. I have done double knit, and even designed a project that incorporated double knit with increases and decreases. I've also knit brioche, but I guess I've never done double knit color work. What a time consuming project! I calculated that each of the 85 inches took an hour to do.

I added his name on the end, to stave off thieves, and added the words behind the drones (someone else had already charted the drones -- it's not in the original charts).

Well, I had wanted to finish it by the time he went back to University of Nebraska, but I didn't. I mailed it the next week.

Here's hoping he wears it!