Yay! A Finish

This should have been a really quick, easy project, but it ended up taking a little longer than expected. I have made this pattern before with no issues, so I don’t know what was going on this time.

Firstly, I couldn’t count my rows and my mock cables were a bit wonky.  Note to self, keep it simple when at a stitching day and you I am talking.  Who’d have thought.

Then, I dropped a heap of stitches, so decided to rip it back and start again.  That way, I could fix my previous boo boo.

All went fine, until I realised that the two 50g balls of wool would probably not be enough.  8 Ply wool isn’t all the same thickness these days and the Cleckheaton Country Naturals is more like an Aran weight and only has 96m to a ball.  Of course, I had bought the last two balls at the shop and there was no more in Bathurst.  Fortunately, I was able to get an extra ball at Spotty in Orange.  It didn’t matter in the least about the dye lot for this project.

I distinctly dislike using double pointed needles, as I never know how to comfortably hold then, but with much cursing, dropping stitches etc, I finally got it finished.  

It looked like I would run out of that second ball of wool with only a row or two to go.  However, look how much was left.  Of course, if I hadn’t bought the extra ball of wool I would definitely have run out.

Anyway, it is finished and I love it.  The fluffy pom pom suits it nicely.  Now, it is ready to keep my ears toasty warm on our next big adventure.