The Neck Gaiter
I’ve continued knitting, trying to add a new skill with each new project. Here’s the project that I did after finishing my first scarf.
I heard on the radio that Webs was having a New Year’s Day sale. Bill had mentioned this Northampton yarn store to me earlier and it sounded interesting. I was almost done with my scarf and was looking forward to a new project. By this point I realized that I DID like to knit and was hooked.
Webs was great, especially the warehouse in the back where there’s a ton of discounted yarn. I found yarn for my next project, Vaudeville by Artful Yarns in the redish color. It is a 100% merino wool knitted ribbon yarn with a bulky weight gauge. I wanted to learn how to knit in the round on circular needles and thought a simple neck gaiter could work with this yarn. I bought a set of 18-inch size 11 bamboo circular needles. I loved the bamboo needles. They felt great. But the cord attaching them was really stiff and took a long time to loosen up.
I used a seed stitch and the neck gaiter knitted up fast on the circular needles. And by doing a seed stitch, I really got to know the difference between a knit stitch and purl stitch. Now I’ve been knitting several of these gaiters as gifts. It’s the perfect brainless knitting to work on when I need that sort of thing. Ella’s been showing me all the different ways to wear her gaiter including headband/earwarmer and hat.
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