{"id":2311,"date":"2019-01-31T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:14:31","slug":"fo-aurelia-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fo-aurelia-cowl\/","title":{"rendered":"FO: AURELIA COWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dark confession: I was suckered by advertising to knit this pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer I was clicking through Ravelry, as one does, and a picture of this pattern kept popping up on the side. I kept looking at it and was slowly coming around to liking it a lot. I can&#8217;t recall this happening with a Ravelry ad before, but let&#8217;s just roll with it.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/aurelia-cowl\">Aurelia Cowl<\/a> by Hilary Smith Callis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/?attachment_id=2322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2322 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180818_220855.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180818_220855.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180818_220855-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look at that texture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After perusing some of the completed projects on Ravelry and seeing some of the variegated versions, I knew exactly what yarn I wanted to make. It was an already-wound skein of Dream in Color Smooshy in a long-forgotten colorway. If I recall correctly, this was a special limited edition colorway for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theloopyewe.com\">The Loopy Ewe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I wound this skein many moons ago (and started a sock, which I just cut off from the rest of the skein, haha) it was already ready to go. The sock that I abandoned was actually in a similar feather and fan pattern so I knew that the variegation in the yarn would work well with this pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/?attachment_id=2323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2323\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180819_120243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180819_120243.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180819_120243-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it basically knit itself and I immediately made plans for another one in a honey-colored skein of my precious Bugga! That one took a little longer to finish due to work getting in the way of my knitting time, but is also completed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/?attachment_id=2325\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2325\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114344.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114344-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But back to the FO. This pattern knits up very quickly, though definitely needs a full wet block in order to reach its full potential. I have really enjoyed knitting these. The only modifications I made were to give both cowls a picot edge. I feel like it needed a little extra something at the edge to call back to the feather &amp; fan lace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/?attachment_id=2326\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2326\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114620.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_20180929_114620-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also started and finished a Marled Mania Sweater by Westknits since I last updated here, and I just need to get some pictures taken of it &#8211; it&#8217;s really great!<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fo-aurelia-cowl\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dark confession: I was suckered by advertising to knit this pattern. Over the summer I was clicking through Ravelry, as one does, and a picture of this pattern kept popping up on the side. I kept looking at it and was slowly coming around to liking it a lot. I can&#8217;t recall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/fo-aurelia-cowl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FO: AURELIA COWL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}