One FO! A day to remember, then.
Yesterday I dragged my brother back to Le Comptoir, and bought a second skein of yarn for the odd shoulderette object. The lighter blue I'd picked was all sold, so I settled for a darker, petrol blue. Yes, my FO is made out of two - no, actually, 3 - different colors. I did wonder how silly it would look, and I thought perhaps I would even frog and knit it back up while striping all the while... Since the ridged design even naturally lends itself to that.. But I decided against. This was to keep me warm now that winter-y temperatures are there, and I needed/wanted it sooner rather than later.
Hence, finishing. After I finished adding the 3 downwards ridges that made it grow past my shoulders to hugs my arms, I took up the collar again. I had first made a floppy triangular kind of improv collar with a variegated petrol-teal blue in a softer yarn (the one I used for the "body" is not recommended to wear next to skin while this variegated one was merino, way softer), and I started by frogging it completely. I knitted two ridges in its place and cast off. This made the FO that my brother likes best as it is.
But I was afraid I'd be cold from the neck up, so I knitted a separate little FO w/ the remainder of the merino yarn: I could knit as many as 3 more ridges with it, which makes a little straight neck-thing that I can wear on top of the shoulderette to keep my neck warm, OR, like I am wearing it now, flip up around my head to keep my ears warm and my hair outta my face.
One knitted thing down! My little victory of the day.
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