Happy 1st Birthday FO: Huggable!
Ok, not the greatest photo of the shrug. This is a hard FO to photograph! I do like this pic of it though.
Pattern & Modifications
Hug by Jennifer Thurston. This pattern was originally published in the free online knit 'zine, Magknits, but it closed and disappeared from the entire internet somewhat dramatically a while back. I miss it, but luckily every pattern I've wanted to knit from it has become available for free via Ravelry. I heavily modded this little shrug based on these instructions on craftster, and added a few extra changes to make it my own: I knit extra deep ribbed cuffs that fold up to 3/4 length (my favourite sleeve length) or flip down to cover my wrists when I'm chilly, and picked up and knit a very deep collar that folds nicely behind my neck while covering a little extra on my back.
Needles & Yarn
The yarn is Gaspereau Valley Fibres Semi-worsted Spun Singles, a lusciously soft and yet nicely woolly yarn I bought in Nova Scotia several vacations ago. Its from Cotswold sheep in a nice natural grey/brown colour. I used 5.5mm (US 9) needles and got a nicely dense but still soft fabric.
Timeline
Begun January 11, 2009 and completed January 26 -- the afternoon of last year's Christmas 2. I can't believe I let this go unblogged for an entire year, but I have to admit it is partly because I wear it so much! This is one of my favourite little shrugs and I almost always reach for it to go with a t-shirt and jeans on those days when you just want a little extra warmth.
1 Comments:
I like that picture, too! And the shrug looks good in action, which is something I always wonder about when I see the "posed" sweater shots that come with most patterns. I wonder how much your mods changed the shrug to make it more functional than the original. Or if the original would actually have "worked" at all. Thanks for *finally* showing it to us!
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