AFK

My kids have been sick. At first, it was allergies from really high winds. Then, it turned into prolonged sniffles, more coughing, congestion and not sleeping through the night, nevermind the general grumpiness and back bitting. This week it peaked in temperatures and a sinus infection for Itty Bitty. She's stopped waking up through the night since she's gotten antibiotics, but sadly, I'm still being woken up at five in the morning. Yesterday, Bub woke me up at that unreasonable hour (for myself, at least that's an unreasonable hour) just to tell me he was not sick and could go to school. After impressing the kids with my sentiment about being woken up at that hour and not wanting to hear from them until seven, I was still woken up this morning at five thirty. . . by my mother-in-law, who accidentally pocket dialed me. Now in her defense, it was eight thirty on the East Coast, but now I'm wondering what's going to happen tonight.

FO- Gap-tastic Cowl

The cowl would have been finished much sooner, if I hadn't stopped working on it three days in. That said, it's done now.

For scale, this is me, wearing the cowl:

 And this is me, wearing the cowl looped twice around:

 It seemed too large, but perhaps it's a scale thing? For reference, I'm about 5'5", and I cast on 111 stitches and knit until it was 13" wide (rather than the 15" the pattern called for). Laid flat it was about 77" long, but I think it stretched out when hung around my neck.

 Wrapped around three times looked just ridiculous, possibly "high fashion"-y but ridiculous enough I elected not to take a picture.

In the picture above you can see the bound-off edge (top), compared with the cast-on edge (bottom). The cast-on was twisted German cast-on, which was sadly not stretchy enough. The bind-off was Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-off, which was perfect.

Overall, I found the project disappointing, and I don't think it's the pattern's fault. I think it's the yarn (Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky). I just can't get behind anything with that much acrylic in it. Oh well. I suspect a child of mine will be eyeing this FO, trying to figure out how to acquire it.