Knitting Adventures: Embrace Winter Neck Warmer by DROPS design

Finally, the knitting bug has infected me again. I´m not kidding, the whole summer i hardly had the motivation to knit anything. At the end of August and mid-September i made some scrap socks without a heel, but nothing more.
Since the end of September, i finally have so many ideas again. It probably changed because – yes i´m sorry – Christmas is coming soon (and i also had a family birthday at the end of October), and i needed to start knitting christmas presents!

But first the birthday present.

I chose a simple and easy project, to get back into the groove again. The Neck Warmer from Drops (it is free on Ravelry – Link here, and on their website – Link here) is perfect for that, to make it even easier and faster, i decided to not knit the main pattern. Only Stockinette on the front and back panel. I did the little slip stitch design on the shoulders though.

The Pattern needs about 345 – 440 yards (315 – 402 m) of DK weight yarn. I knitted the size large and had only one ball of white yarn (which was Schachenmayr Soft & Easy Originals in White – 1 Skein is 100 g and 235.0 meters (257.0 yards)). Which in retrospect, was a stupid idea, but i don´t have that many DK weight yarns at the moment. I thought with some changes to the pattern and the opportunity to maybe get some other white yarn at my local store i started the project with it.

So i decided to knit the Neck ribbing narrower than the pattern wrote, to save some of my yarn. I knitted 6cm instead of 8 cm. I still used Needle sizes 4 mm circular and 3,5 mm circular (for the ribbing) as given in the pattern, because i didn´t like the fabric larger needles would give me.

I ran out of my yarn before the last ribbing, which is the front ribbing ( but you can wear it however you want) on a – i think – saturday evening or sunday. I had plenty of time to finish the birthday present, so theoretically i could have waited till my local yarn shop opened to buy some new yarn, but apparently i was in a hurry.

I think, i wanted to start a new project asap. So, i rummaged thorugh my leftover yarn and found some white DK. While knitting under artificial light it even looked like the same shade of white. But the next morning you could see it was slightly – very very slightly – darker. It is only really noticeable, if you look very close and most of the time it is under a jacket or coat, so i left it that way.

I „blocked“ (i steamed it a bit, because the yarn is 100% acrylic) it after finishing, because it had some weird ripples in the shoulder area (which you can see in the picture). It got nice and even afterwards. The yarn is really one of my favourite yarns from Schachenmayr, and i hope they will continue to make it, although the have/had a few problems at the moment. It is soft and very comfortabel to knit with.

Thank you for reading, till next week with some more upcycling!

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Super cozy neckwarmer based upon the Warmington Neckwarmer pattern:
https://www.wyndlestrawdesigns.com/store/p143/Warmington_Neckwarmer.html#/

In this version, I used 2 ends of a sportweight yarn held together and worked the front and back in Granite Stitch from our Reversible Knitting Stitches book:
https://www.wyndlestrawdesigns.com/store/p133/Reversible_Knitting_Stitches_E-Book.html#/

Mmmm, so soft and warm!

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