To start the story that is my new lush infinity scarf, I’ma have to go back a couple of months … In October I made my ultimate Halloween costume – Lydia Deetz’s red wedding dress – entered it into the WM Trimmings Facebook costume competition, and won! All that sewing with all that retina-burning-red was worth it. I won a €50 gift card to spend in WM Trimmings, which I couldn’t wait to spend since I’m in there every couple of weeks anyways.
With my gift card I wanted to buy some things that I normally wouldn’t. One of the many pieces I picked up was some of Cygnet’s Seriously Chunky plum wool. You can’t tell from these pictures, but there are so many colours to this wool – I can only compare it to a petrol spill. If petrol spills were pretty. Another reason why I went with this colour was because, well, it’s a colour and I wear an awful lot of black. I had my eye on those oversized cowls all you fashionable young people are wearing these days, so I figured why not just knit one? So I did.
This wool knits up fast and is so soft and lush and more importantly, WARM. I used size 12 needles, cast on 23 stitches and knitted 4 skeins of wool. This thing is HUGE {that’s what she said}. I took it for the ultimate test spin yesterday in some of Ireland’s highest winds, and I was as snug as a bug. No word of a lie. I just wish I had knitted it sooner.
