I told you I knit a hat for Jeff and a cowl for B this last Christmas. (It’s June now and I finally took some pictures of them. Ha!) I had some really special handspun angora yarn that we traded for at a fiber festival. (The gal doesn’t sell online, or I’d share a link.) It felt like such a luxury to have it, and to knit with it. If you’ve ever felt angora fiber before, you know how incredibly soft it is. It feels like you’re knitting up a fluffy cloud of goodness. I’ve knit with it a few times before, and if you’ve been reading for awhile you’ve likely already heard me exclaim over the softness (like in this post, about the little hat I made for my nephew.)
I was saving the precious yarn to make something for each of my guys. Jeff was in need of a warm hat, and Bracken had outgrown the other similar cowl I’d made for him years past. I guessed on the size for Jeff’s hat, trying it on him as I went along, but it stretched out a little and is a tad big, so fits best when he rolls up the brim just a bit. I love how it matches his white beard. (Jeff mentioned he has to mow down his eyebrows once a week and joked he didn’t have time for his “eyebrow grooming” before the picture. 🙂 ) His hat is always covered in little bits of moss, and twigs and the like, which makes me really happy because it means it’s well loved and gets a lot of use.
For B’s cowl I followed the pattern in Susan B. Anderson’s Kids’ Knitting Workshop. It’s such a great, simple pattern, and that book is fantastic for beginning knitters. (I used it for teaching B to knit, I’ll plan to write more about that in another post.) His cowl has gotten so much use since I gave it to him. Knitting is magic… it truly fills my heart up to be able to make useful, cozy things for the people I love. To wrap them up in some of that love is the best feeling! And having it be so incredibly soft is pretty nice too…
Hi Taryn.
I love your beautiful knitting and your garden blog postings.Thank You for sharing.
Do you know any good easy shawl patterns for fingering weight yarn? I love shawls. Sending you and your family our Love.
Silvia
Hi Silvia,
I so appreciate you leaving comments, I always enjoy hearing from you. I have knit one shawl, and one cowl that reminds me of a shawl in a lot of ways, both in fingering weight, though I wouldn’t consider either of them easy patterns. I don’t knit in fingering weight often because I find it hard to have the patience for it- it takes so long. 🙂 I’ll link to both patterns I knit-
Pebble Beach Shawl for my mom: http://woolymossroots.com/2016/08/shawl-sunshine-first-sunflower/
Seashore Cowl for my grandma: http://woolymossroots.com/2018/11/a-seashore-cowl-love-in-knit-form/
Maybe you’ll have some luck searching for simple shawls with fingering weight yarn on Ravelry? I know the fingering weight ones often have intricate lacework, but surely someone has created a simple one, right? 🙂
Love,
Taryn