Friday, November 16, 2018

Photo Friday

Our weather took a dip recently and it's starting to feel like winter.  Just to the west of us even had a massive ice storm last night.  Thankfully it was only miserably cold and rainy here.  A perfect day/night to stay tucked safely indoors with my knitting.

Knitting a temperature log weather cowl. Each color indicates a temperature range and each stripe reflects one day in 2018
weather cowl

And speaking of weather and knitting...  I got to add in a new color stripe on my weather cowl.  Well, not new, but the first medium blue stripe of the season.  For some reason, I'm quite excited about it.

 I can not believe I've kept up with this weather cowl.  When I started it, I had no real hope of actually knitting a stripe every day indicating the day's temperature.  Thinking that I'd never follow through on the project for more than a week or two, I didn't spend much time choosing the colors.  I simply grabbed skeins from the stash pile, assigned temperature grades to them and started knitting. 

 I deeply regret that decision now.  There's not enough contrast between the light green (54 - 66 degrees) and the light blue (44 - 53 degrees.)  Even up close and in person you have to really look to see the difference.  And don't even get me started on how harsh the dark green (67 - 77 degrees,) yellow (78 - 88 degrees) and the orange (89-95) stripes are.

 Oh well.  Live and learn, right?
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8 comments:

  1. Kim in OregonNovember 16, 2018 at 4:07 PM

    I'm generally not a big fan of green but on your weather cowl it looks wonderful!

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  2. karenNovember 16, 2018 at 4:25 PM

    your striping is lovely and I am on a big cowl obsession. I still have three to knit as gifts and now I'm thinking about what I want to knit for me.

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    1. Jeannie Gray KnitsNovember 17, 2018 at 12:22 PM

      I can not wait for New Year's selfish knitting! My list of projects is long but I've already bought yarn for 6 of items.

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  3. KymNovember 16, 2018 at 4:39 PM

    It's cool! (You can always do another one next year. Now that you're in the habit and all. . .)
    :-)

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    1. Jeannie Gray KnitsNovember 17, 2018 at 12:23 PM

      I doubt I'll knit another, but I have been wondering what I'll do with the 10 - 15 minutes a day I've been spending on the weather cowl.

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  4. Caffeine GirlNovember 18, 2018 at 11:38 AM

    It may turnout better than you think. I see what you mean about how close some of the colors are, but when it's all done that subtlety may look like genius!

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