With empty needles, I happily poked through my stash to see what I should knit next, and four pretty little skeins jumped out at me. The first was a skein of Malabrigo Rios, an aberration because I’ve been knitting so much with fingering weight yarn. I had an urge to make a cowl, one of my favorite things to knit. I love to knit on circular needles, I love the feel of merino wool in my hands, and I love to play with different patterns. And best of all, I love having so many cowls to wear when it’s cold.
This skein is the color Aniversario. I’ve bought this colorway before but it’s one where there’s huge variations in colors. I made a Hitchhiker Beyond in this color, but it has a lot of blue/indigo. This skein is mostly red. I chose a fun, free one-skein cowl pattern called Sha-ZAM! and it’s going very quickly.
I’d forgotten how much I love Malabrigo. It’s so soft, with that yummy squish factor. I definitely need to make my next sweater in Malabrigo!
Two weeks from today, we leave to take the girl to college in Colorado. (EEK!) I’m freaking out a little, but I’m also super excited for her. And I can’t wait to visit my mountains again. Anyway, before she leaves, I decided we needed some family time, so I declared today a Family Fun Day and we all took the day off work. We’ll visit the Jazz Museum, have some lunch, go to a fantastic big vintage record store, and who knows what else. Maybe a movie? I won’t get much knitting done, but that’s all right. Knitting can wait.
Sounds like you’re having a great day ahead π
Say, what is this empty needle thing you’re talking about? π
Apparently that’s what happens when you finish all your WIPs! I don’t get to experience it very often, that’s for sure!
Wow! I’m not sure but I think I didn’t have that in about 20 years. Longer if you count in UFOs π
Congratulations for this amazing experience π
Haha! Thank you, I don’t know if or when it will ever happen again!
The cowl looks great and itβs wonderful youβre getting family time in:)
Thanks! Gotta get it while I can!
I hope you had a great Family Fun Day!
The cowl looks great. And they don’t call it mmmmmalabrigo for nothing! π
Such pretty yarn. Looking forward to seeing the finished object
Thanks!
Beautiful! Wow that time is flying by
Ain’t it though? π