FO: Tree Delivery cowl

YES!!! At long last!!!! It is complete!

I finished it up Monday night, but blocking took a while because of the double thickness.

As you know, I used the Tree Delivery water bottle cover pattern and turned it into a cowl. The revisions were pretty basic - I cast on three times the amount of stitches (288) worked a couple rows of garter to start, and  then worked the chart three times each round.

The colourwork went fairly quickly, but that decision to add a lining made the project a total slog. That said, adding a lining was the right thing to do... not only does it cover up all the unsightly floats, and protect from the itchiness of the handspun, it makes it doubly thick and doubly warm!

If I was smart, and had thought about the need for a lining when I started, I would have done a provisional cast on to make attaching the two ends easier. In the end, I just picked up stitches on the inside of the first garter border, and did a three needle bind-off between that and the lining stitches.

 It ended up working out quite tidily, if I do say so myself.

It's a good size, long enough to hang loose on warmer days...

 ...and just enough to wrap around twice when the wind is up.

 In the end, it's the perfect cowl!