And it’s a finished thing!
Project Details:
- Pattern: Hitchhiker, by Martina Behm. This is the third of these that I’ve knit, and not the last. It’s a perfect pattern for those sock yarns that wouldn’t necessarily knit up into good socks. This color would have been fine for socks, but it is 100% merino. I will knit plain merino socks, but it doesn’t wear as well as sock yarn that has some nylon in it. I have plenty of that in the stash, so I try to use the plain wool stuff for other things.
- Yarn: Wollmeise Pure, 100% merino. The color is Flower Power. I love this yarn, her colors are bright, and the yardage is very generous (575 yards).
- Needles: 3.25 mm. I used plastic straight needles from my precious plastic needle stash.
- Started: November 4, 2019
- Finished: August 12, 2020
- Modifications: None.
- Pattern/Yarn rating: ***** for both. I love this pattern. It is fun, great for wildly colored yarn, and doesn’t take much brain power. The Wollmeise is just perfect. I have a bunch more of this in the stash for those “little neck things” that I’m growing to love.
575 yards out of stash. I started keeping track of this about 18 months ago. In that time, I’ve gotten a total of 15,625 yards out of stash. Some of that was stuff that went to Goodwill or my knitting group, but the bulk of it has been knitted up. It sometimes seems like I don’t ever finish anything, but I guess I actually do.
So pretty! Why haven’t I knit one of these????
I, by and large, much prefer using sock yarn for shawls over using it for socks. Beautiful work as usual.
It’s lovely. I’ve knit one of those and am now knitting her beyond hitchhiker, which is basically the same except the “teeth” are on both sides of the shawl. It’s perfect pandemic knitting. Or really anytime knitting.
I LOVE that pattern, have knit two. I think I’ll move it up on the list with some of my stashed Wollmeise. Those colours are great.