Last post, I showed the beginnings of my Rayures cowl. Today, I am pleased to report, the cowl is complete, and the things I did to make sure the FO met my standards all worked well!
First, I used my current favorite provisional cast-on: a long tail cast-on in which the tail is waste yarn. I like this because it holds the stitches in place in the correct configuration. This way, I did not need to remove the waste yarn first, thread the stitches onto a spare needle, and try to make sure the grafting all went in the correct direction with no twisted or missed stitches. Instead, I grafted the live stitches just as I would a sock and the top stitches I just hooked into as they presented themselves. I snipped and removed the tail after every 6-12 stitches had been grafted to make sure that the grafted stitches would not stand out.
Here are some photos to show what I did:
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| Tail for long tail cast-on in scrap yarn |
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| Grafting to the cast-on edge |
Another thing I did was to use some more scrap yarn to run a line up the original seamline. Because I used a jogless join that requires the color change to move one stitch to the left every stripe, it would have been easy to get the cowl twisted. When I had finished my knitting, I lined up the seamline (being careful not to twist!) and pinned it in place until I had grafted the first few stitches.
Here's what it looked like:
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| Seamline marked with scrap yarn |
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| Pinning to get make sure I have no twist |
The final result looks great. With the winter sun, good quality photos from my phone are hard. The FO picture is a bit fuzzy, but the colors are pretty accurate.
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| Work in progress on the grafting |
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| Finished Rayures Cowl! |
I think I may spend a few hours (or days) on knitting that requires a bit less close attention before getting back to my Transition Point socks.
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