We are finally getting the snow that we deserve! It is a winter wonderland here and out east, but makes it a hassle for a lot of people (we have a parking ticket to contend with as DD’s car was on the street when they plowed 
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I have been working on a humongous and very slow project for the last month+ (to be revealed later), but take a break from time to time to knit up something fast. I made an impulse buy from Webs for a very expensive Noro yarn: Nadeshiko in the “red-denim” colorway. $25 per skein!!! I bought two. As luck would have it, someone in my knitting group was wearing a beautiful cowl called Seyfert – the perfect pattern for this yarn. And free (thank goodness!!).
So, here is my $50 cowl!
I really love it and have worn it often! I had part of a skein leftover so I knit up a matching hat:
The hat is a little tight but kind of cute. About the yarn: it was full of knots – three in each skein!! For that kind of money, you would expect better.
Hope you all get to work on time today – drive safely!!
It’s really nice – so soft and fuzzy looking. Just the ticket for the your weather.
Noro seems to be synonymous with knotty but nice! There have been knots in everything I have ever bought from them. Lots of knots.
Comment by Joanna — February 11, 2013 @ 11:53 am
It is so beautiful. May I ask what you did about the knots in the yarn?
(I’m a relatively new knitter and I wonder what to do with them in different projects. So I wondered what you did with them in this cowl. Thank you.)
Comment by Barb — February 11, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
How annoying about knots.
Comment by Tanja — February 12, 2013 @ 5:54 am
Such a shame about the knots but the cowl looks beautiful.
Comment by Carie — February 12, 2013 @ 5:21 pm
I truly do not understand Noro’s propensity for knots. I often have three or even four knots in a skein. It’s incredibly frustrating when one is trying to follow the color progression. I have voiced my concern to the Noro distributor and received a free pattern book. I was grateful for the free book, but would have much preferred NO knots!
Comment by Holly — February 12, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
P.S. Your cowl and hat are absolutely lovely!
Comment by Holly — February 12, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
Is there some angora in them thar stitches? Your cowl looks soft enough to touch right through the monitor. How happy your neck must be. I have devised a theory about the knots in Noro that has allowed me to live with them. I think Noro is exercising the wabi-sabi-ness of the process. At least as I understand wabi-sabi to be, anyway. This theory is ingenious because it allows me to then ignore the knots as I knit along, just as Noro does. ((But then I haven’t achieved your level of knitting expertise. I’m still kind of in the ignorance-is-bliss category.)
Comment by Chloe — February 12, 2013 @ 8:15 pm
Gorgeous pattern and yarn. What a perfect combo.
Comment by Kathy — February 12, 2013 @ 10:16 pm
Your cowl looks so scrumptious and soft! And I love the colorway. But oh, Noro. I have a love/hate relationship with it. So many knots, such pretty colors. What’s a knitter to do? Whenever I see a gorgeous skein of it, I often forget how troublesome it is to work with, and bring it home. Working with Noro requires a lot of patience and a little bit of amnesia.
Comment by Karen M. — February 14, 2013 @ 10:14 am