(P.S. if you think you might be interested in such fun, mosey on over to the Rav group and sign up. It's tons of fun, and you get so much knitting done!)
Anyway. Each term there are class selected, and each month of a term, there are assignments for those classes. One of them this term was Herbology.
The February assignment for Herbology was to create something that involved at least 1 yard of i-cord. For those of you who are not knitters or crocheters, i-cord is the devil, and most of us fibery folk would rather run and hide than to make it. There were lots of fantastic projects that used an insane amount of the stuff.
I, myself, made a hat that had a decorative i-cord trim, and I'm pretty happy with the results, even if I have know other use for this hat than to humiliate my cat, Nuisance, with it.
My original idea for this assignment, however, was to process and entire Lion Brand Pound of Love into i-cord and to knit it into a Grandmother's Favorite Dishcloth. Obviously I wouldn't be using it as a dishcloth, but I thought it could be something that Nuisance would enjoy curling up on. But, we were prohibited from using an i-cord mill, so I put aside the idea.
Well, now that we're on "April Break" between winter and the spring/summer terms, I decided to finish this project, both because I liked the idea and because I really wanted to get rid of my Pounds of Love.
I discovered that one Pound of Love isn't enough for this project. I need most of a second ball, so I have an interesting two-color effect. I knit up the resulting i-cord on US 15 needles and used my fingers to weave in the ends. Here's the resulting hugeness
I think Nuisance approves.
That looks mighty comfy, actually.
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