Mohair: The End

A couple of years ago, I purchased a quantity of Cleckheaton Studio Mohair, along with this pattern book. The yarn progressed to various stages of at least two garments in that book, before I changed my mind about what I really

wanted. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I didn't really want anything.

Time passed, and I decided to work on "hug me tight" jacket from another Patons book, Resort Knits, a garment worked in one piece, in garter-stitch, with the arms seamed after the fact. Somewhere around 20 rows from completion, I halted work on this, and hid it from view in one of my knitting bags. Yet again, I'd decided that I didn't really want that garment, but acknowledging the fact that mohair is horrible to unravel.

Wrap

Today, spotting a rather groovy wooden pin in the wool shop, I decided to convert my "hug me tight" into a wrap. After all, it is basically a long rectangle with shaped ends (or would be when I finished it), pretty much my arm-span.

Now, with a clearer vision, and thoughts of a garment I might actually wear, I returned hom eand began knitting. Before long, I was done, and I no longer have any guilt about how long that yarn sat in a limbo.

I still have a few balls of the mohair left, and they'll be added to the other mohair oddments I have, which will eventually be worked into squares for a knee rug. The yarn might not be 100% pleasurable to knit, but it is soft and warm.