It is time…Knitting Challenge Throwdown!

Poison Caramel-Apple Scarf

Way back in February I, with several lady friends, traveled by train to Tacoma Washington for the Madrona Fiber festival. The train ride was relaxing. It also gave me plenty of time to work on my Poison Caramel Apple scarf. Somewhere in the middle of the journey, I had discovered an error several rows back. I had not put in a life line, a length of yarn to hold stitches in their correct state. So I had to carefully un-knit (tink) the rows down to the error. By the time we debarked in Tacoma, I had just managed to successfully re-knit all the removed rows. (grrrrr) I realized it was quite the knitting challenge to fix those rows.

Franklin Habit

Way, way back to the prior February (2017), my friends had described their time at the Madrona Fiber festival. One of the classes that they had described was taught by Franklin Habit. He is a gentleman that enjoys knitting historical patterns. This is no small feat! Knitting patterns haven’t always been written down. They used to be taught from one person to the next. When the patterns started to be written, there certainly wasn’t any sort of standardization. There were also many errors which made it challenging for knitters.

The Class

Back to the future past. This Mr. Franklin Habit sounded right up my alley. I signed up for his class. It was on how to knit from these old patterns or to make patterns from actually looking at old knits. It was everything that I might have wanted, except it wasn’t long enough. One of the projects that he showed us was a “lady’s traveling cap”. It was a lovely bit of nonsense to the modern sensibility. He said that it was fairly challenging to make. He also said that the modern pattern was on his blog. This resulted in a little friendly challenge with LaTejedorCrafts. We decided to each make our own Lady’s Traveling Cap. We would then blog about the experience. Then I got home and my world fell apart.

The Knitting Challenge

Time has gone by and things are starting to straighten out a little bit. I am ready to throw down the gauntlet. Making this knitting challenge to my dear friend and share it with the world!

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