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FO Friday: Handspun Aspen Cowl

Between launching a new free hat pattern and celebrating Tyler's birthday (which was on Wednesday), it's been a rather busy week. Also, I totally forgot to share my first guest post from the Interweave blog that went live last Friday - click here to check it out!

Anyway, in the midst of everything, I managed to squeeze in a quick photo shoot for this fun cowl that I recently knit with some of my handspun yarn:
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I can't seem to find any record as to what this fiber is, or where I purchased it, since it was spun for a Tour de Fleece long before I stated to keep better records in my spinning notebook. BUT, I can at least tell you what pattern I used: the Aspen Cowl by Andi Javori (note: affiliate link).
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This was a fairly easy knitting project, and it was fast, too - I just love patterns like that!. The stitch repeats were easy to "read" as I worked, so a lot of mistakes I would normally make were easily avoided just by taking a minute to count stitches or compare to the previous section.

I didn't do the best job of blocking the edges of the cowl because my favorite blocking tool, the Knitter's Pride Knit Blockers, were in use by a different project at the time. Also, I had to let it dry on the floor of my knitting room, and I kept finding it in slight disarray, no doubt from a certain cat who likes to run through the house a breakneck speed.
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However, it lays quite nicely and is easy to wear, plus I love how the colors in the handspun yarn worked up! I had been digging through my bin to find something that would be a suitable substitution for the yarn that was called for in the pattern, and I wasn't totally sure that this skein would be a good match. I'm glad I gave it a try, because I think it turned out great. Two thumbs up!
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2017 at 12:44 PM

    After row 34 I have 23 stitches on the needle. When I get to row 35: P1, *K2tog, YO; rep from * to last sts, K1P1 I have three stitches on the needle after the last K2tog, YO leaving 3 unknitted stitches. Please advise

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