bergen cowl

 i made a sweet cowl, to go with my new grey sweater from suss design knitwear. suss cousins is an expert knitter and designer originally from sweden, now living in los angeles. oh if i can dream, how i'd love to wear all suss all the time, everything looks so soft, simple, comfy and pretty. i love the designs of carrie bostick hoge also, she's the creator of this lovely cowl. one day last week, while faithfully knitting away on my one and only project (monogamous knitting is difficult these days!), an irresistible impulse came to make something quick and simple, yet interesting. the bergen cowl! tuesday night i placed an order with quince & co., friday the wool arrived, saturday i cast on and sunday, done! so very satisfying and now a cozy warm cowl is here for our turning cool weather. thank you again carrie (one of my favorite sweaters ever was designed by c.b.h. also).

pattern ::  bergen cowl
designer :: madder ~ carrie bostick hoge
wool ::  quince & co. lark

colorways ::  carrie's yellow, egret
ravelry notes ::  here


i found a book of poetry. a beautiful treasure of a book, a first edition written in nineteen seventy two. hand bound in leather, by the author. it's hand written too, in the authors own calligraphy. the inside covers are silk screened, i keep rubbing my fingers over the raised painted page, over the hand inked words. there are one hundred numbered copies, this book is number eighty eight. thank you book fairies for leading me to this one!

and the embroidery i shared last week, it's now a bag! i wore it out on saturday, even though it still needs some kind of closure. the bag is kind of too big, really need to pay more attention to measuring!
very happy to be joining with ginny, hi yarn alongers!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx lori