Chicago Winter Snuggly

Patterns:

Boundless

Christa Giles

Deephaven

Bonnie Sennott

Yarn:

Ecological Wool

Natural Grey

I have been dreading the upcoming winter since the snow first started melting in the spring. I knew I wanted to make some sort of hooded scarf that could shield my neck and face from the wind more than a simple hat could. I bought the Boundless pattern last winter for Christmas programming at a living history museum, but I never ended up making it. When I was looking through hooded patterns this fall, I found it again and thought that it would be perfect for what I had in mind. I knit the hood and the first two sections of the cape thinking that it would be a good cowl sort of thing. I was most definitely wrong. The neck section was much bigger than I anticipated and it looked ridiculous.

I ripped out the cowl and started on another project. Wanting to go back to the hooded something since it had started getting colder, I started looking at cowl patterns. I found the Deephaven pattern, which I had seen before in May and really really liked. I decided to combine the Boundless hood and Deephaven cowl. I was skeptical through the entire process, however, I am totally in love with the finished product and to not leave my apartment without it. It's super warm and really fun to wear. It's so snuggly and cuddly that I wear it indoors all the time. It's crazy perfect, and I would definitely do something similar in the future.

Deephaven was perfect with the thicker yarn

The hood works really well with the cowl

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