The Comfort Zone

I have some new Elann Incense, a mixture of wool, silk and bamboo in Rich Coffee, and while I am working on the Butterfly Shawl by Danielle Wilson on Ravelry in a pale blue Marl, Incense is chewing a hole in my knitting bag trying to get out.  It tells me it wants to be another Cabled Button Shawl.  I agree since I believe that a good pattern deserves to be revisited often. 

This time around I will write up the pattern and post it with the caveat that there are at least a dozen other similar shawls, just none I could find with two cables and garter stitch edging.   Since I am currently having a love affair with the color brown I decided this one will be mine.

I am also working on a new sock pattern and making progress.  This is all you get to see until the March newsletter unveiling.  I’ve added Rib Wrap to my free patterns and hope you try it and enjoy it!  

I received an email question asking if the two stitch wrap in Rib Wrap socks isn’t the same as “yo, k2, pass yo over the two stitches.”   Close but not quite the same.   For me the yarn forward stitch as done in the pattern is easier than trying to pick up the yarn over, and the yarn over does not leave you with a neat little rib. 

Now that it’s as clear as mud I give you “The Lion and the Lamb.”  I will leave it to you to decide which one is which.

 
   Life is good.