13 December 2011
Ceci N'est Pas Une Snood.
OK, to be fair, it was never meant to be a snood. It's my DD's little scarfy thing, now complete with leather buttons. The original pattern looked like this:
--oh, my goodness, now that I look at the pattern again I didn't put the buttons where they were supposed to be! I forgot how the original looked and thought it should button as shown here (but without the buttons.) Anyway, I realized it could also be buttoned end to end to make what I would call a cowl, like this one, or this one, or this one, but which the entire sewing and knitting blogosphere, inspired by Karen of Did You Make That, calls a snood as it churns them out by the dozens.
I always thought a snood looked like this thing on the back of Honeysuckle Weeks's head as she plays Sam Stewart in Foyle's War:
But what do I know? A thousand blogging knitters can't be wrong, can they?
Here, by the way, is my purple scarf, completed.
I wore it today (maybe I'll block it later) with my latest Vogue 8575 as I cycled to work, stopping on the way to pick up more yarn to make this for a friend:
By the time I got to work I had cast on and knit the first two rows! (No, not while pedaling--I bike to the subway then me and my bicycle ride the rest of the way.)
This stuff is addicting!
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More addictive than the law of remedies, anyway!
ReplyDeleteSigned, Another knit-addicted sewing lawyer
that thing on her head IS a snood. How that got turned into "neckwarmer" I don't understand. My guess is someone used the word incorrectly to describe their neckwarmer and it just went viral. Cest la vie.
ReplyDeleteAnd HAHAH I was trying to picture you cycling and knitting at the same time. Yikes!
You say snood, I say cowl, they say neckwarmer. We need some international standards here!
ReplyDeleteThat is the cutest thing! I feel suddenly snoody!
ReplyDeletewell i am glad you stuck in that caveat clearing up your transport arrangements, i had visions of you knitting a quick stitch or two waiting for traffic lights to change :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm with you (and Beangirl) on the snood/cowl confusion. However, I'm not a knitter so I should probably keep my mouth shut. ;)
ReplyDeleteI like the buttons on both versions you show---looks warm and cozy! :)