FO: Thicket Cowl

I took advantage of some couch time this weekend and finished up my Thickets gloves and cowl set.  The Thickets gloves you've seen already - they appeared in the Ennea magazine over the winter, but I reknit them in the sportweight SW merino I carry in the shop and then designed a matching cowl to go with them. 

This is one of my favorite colorways (what can I say, I'm a gray girl), and hopefully will suit my mum as well as these are destined for holiday gifts for her.

The gloves:
 

And the cowl:

 

I wrote two versions of the cowl.  One with one less repeat in case you like yours to fit more snugly, but I know my mum prefers a looser version, that she can secure with a pin if she wants it to seal out more winter drafts.

The set is available on Ravelry here.  I was able to squeak out a set from one skein of the Belisama sportweight (each skein is 250 yards), but that was cutting it very close on yardage.  If you are making the smaller version of the cowl, you'd likely be fine, or if you have small-ish hands (I do not and neither does mum), you'd likely be fine with 250 or so yards, but for insurance, 300 is probably a more realistic estimate if you're knitting yourself a set.

All for now.....

Comments

[Manise]

Love this set! I love the sportweight version. I am gray freak too. You should see my fleece choices. :-)

[Cheryl S.]

Cute! And how great that you can get them both out of 250 yards.

[Christina]

SO CUTE! I think the cowl goes nicely with the gloves.

[mary lou]

Lovely - I am a grey girl myself. Let's hope we don't end up in GrayGardens.

[Sheepish Annie]

Yummy! And I'm so impressed you got all that done with so little time of late, not to mention the minimal yarn yardage.