Continuing on the lines of gifts created for Christmas, I have a friend who picked her own gift. It ended up being a dark gray cowl of alpaca wool made in a fisherman’s ribbing with green swirl buttons attaching it. It was fairly quick to put together and turned out nicely. The only addition I made is that I used smaller buttons (making the button holes smaller) and adding a button on the back to keep the bottom from coming up.
The wool is really light, but also very thick, warm and soft. If you haven’t knit anything in alpaca before, you are missing out. Word to the wise though, this cowl definitely sheds the white-ish gray hairs, so keep away from dark clothes.
To see the pattern I used go here.
