When you have a goodly amount of yarn left from a project what do you do? Here are some of the things I have been known to do....see if some of them sound familiar....
- Leave them in the bottom of the project bag to see if they will go away.
- Put them in another bag with other left over balls of yarn to "organize" them.
- Swatch for other projects of similar yarn weight.
- Look for scrap projects that require lots of yarn.
- Make minis and swap for temperature or hexi-puff blankets
- Any of a number of other ideas.
When I finished Canova Beach, I had approximately 50 g of the color Lagoon left from Arrowhead Fibers and I hated to let it languish in my project bag. While knitting Canova Beach, I had to decide how big to make the neck opening, so with advice from a few others I decided to make up a sample neck.
After casting on the smallest amount of stitches I thought would work, I discovered I would need more stitches, so I continued and came up with the right amount of stitches.
I kept the sample neck around for reference, while I finished knitting the Canova Beach sample and discovered that the stitch pattern really appealed to me. I thought at some point I would use it again.
Little did I know, that it would be sooner than I originally thought. While Canova Beach was being blocked, I cast on and started playing around with the stitch pattern again. The result is a great little cowl in the same Sea Oats stitch pattern used in Canova Beach.
Sea Oats Serenade is now in testing. The cowl has an interesting little eyelet pattern at the beginning and end to remind us of the fencing that protects the sea oats on the dunes. The sea oats, themselves protected in Florida, are protecting our dunes from erosion from wind and water. They sway on top of the dunes as the breezes blow up the beach, singing their sweet and ancient song.
Keep an eye out here for future updates about its progress down the test knitting trail. I'll be posting more here about it later...
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