Knitting Club

I address my Ravelry queue a bit like a knitting reference library. If I care a piece, it goes in the queue, even if chances are that I’ll never knit it. It’s more a beginning of ideas and stirring than a task list—which is a serious thing, since I’m currently at 16 pages of queued items!

Now that I’ve mastered the whole tag business, I can look my queue when I’m thinking of a peculiar form of project. A cowl, say? I do a tag search and up pop 35 different patterns. When I’m choosing a new part of meeting knitting, I may just skim them to see one that’s reasonably attractive and that won’t command my whole attention. But when I’m in a designing mood, I love sifting through them, comparing different elements. Over the mind or neck only or down onto the shoulders? Lacy stitches or tailored or scrunchy? Ring or moebius? I can recall about combining elements of different patterns or just puzzle how I might rework one bit that doesn’t satisfy me.

What’s wonderful about Ravelry is that there’s no other place where I can meet together quantities of possibility like these. I might leaf through knitting magazines and get a smattering of cowls. I might get another one or two in one of the One-Skein Wonder books. But 35 possibilities? Thirty-five possibilities each of which includes at least one design element that I’m attracted to? That takes Ravelry!

That said, what are roughly of my favorite cowls from Ravelry?

There’s Yarnageddon’s Susie, with its flattering shape and interesting texture.

There’s the simple, versatile Tonsil Toaster from Wool in Hand.

There’s Breean Elyse’s generous and ruffly Keep me Warm Cowl.

There’s Judy Gibson’s Leaf Lace Alpaca Hood, which gets my suffrage for “prettiest.#8221;

Mimi Hill’s Promenade Scarf is tailored enough that it would make for a man or a woman.

Now, what if we used a drawstring, a la Tonsil Toaster, but mixed it with something lacy like the Leaf Lace Hood, and possibly increased the fullness at the seat in the way of Save Me Warm? Oh, how I love Ravelry for making questions like these possible!

P.S. Keep those Pangea photos coming! I’ll publish another gallery post next week.

Author: whatifknits

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