{"id":5193,"date":"2014-03-20T02:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T07:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2014-03-20T02:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T07:18:43","slug":"first-fo-of-2014-ravellenic-games-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5193","title":{"rendered":"first fo of 2014: ravellenic games cowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve finished my second knit object of 2014, I thought it was probably time to share with you my first:<\/p>\n<p>This is the Y Not Cowl, which I knit as a last-minute Ravellenic Games contender last month when I realized that the fingering-weight-sweater-while-Rudi-was-sick-project was probably a little ambitious for a two-week period:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/12892209263\/\" title=\"Untitled by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2806\/12892209263_f33a1ca41a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The yarn is the ultra-soft Fibre Company Tundra in Snowdrift, which had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5194\" title=\"swap of discontent package\">sent to me<\/a> with the pattern, by Colleen earlier in the month. I knit the pattern on US 11 needles, using the modifications Colleen suggested on the pattern (ribbing on both ends, rather than just one, and fewer pattern repeats).<\/p>\n<p>As you can see here, I finished up before the Olympic cauldron was extinguished:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/12736524695\/\" title=\"Ravellenic Cowl by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3798\/12736524695_1d3873ebd7.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Ravellenic Cowl\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>However, I forgot about the time difference and neglected to read the instructions carefully, so the cowl is not a medal winner.<\/p>\n<p>But when you&#8217;ve had a winter like we&#8217;ve had, we take the wins we can get, and winning the First FO of 2014 is a pretty awesome award if you ask me, particularly when it&#8217;s an accessory that&#8217;s so versatile at this time of year:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/12892546504\/\" title=\"Untitled by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3786\/12892546504_d7c08e40ef.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/12892635684\/\" title=\"Untitled by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3819\/12892635684_95c915b3fe.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I&#8217;ve finished my second knit object of 2014, I thought it was probably time to share with you my first: This is the Y Not Cowl, which I knit as a last-minute Ravellenic Games contender last month when I realized that the fingering-weight-sweater-while-Rudi-was-sick-project was probably a little ambitious for a two-week period: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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