124 grams to start. This is the perfect yarn to go with my jacket.

Cast on 140 with 6.5 mm needles then switch to 6 mm.

• I tried 3 different versions of the stretchy cast-on, but my stitches were too far apart, so I did a long-tail on a larger needle size.
• chose the 6 mm needle to knit with, as my 6.5 mm needle was bamboo and short, and the 6 mm was a nice slippery Addi with a long cord.
• I am an idiot! I mis-read the pattern and did not do the 4 rows of eyelet together, which gives the nice diagonal ridges - I only did one, like the other eyelet section. I didn’t realize this until the other set of 4, so I ended up skipping 6 rows. As I wanted to use up my yarn, I just did another single-row eyelet section.
• unblocked 6 x 47 inches; blocked 7 x 57 inches.

I love this yarn (LOVE IT!) with the small pops of colour from the MacBeth tartan (more or less), mixed in with the dark background. I’m not sure that this was the best pattern, however. I think the lace of the pattern is lost. Maybe something like a plain all-over eyelet cowl would have worked better?

There is a close-up picture of the KPK rows then the YO/k2tog, the KPK rows repeated - that is my favorite part!

It’s a cowl, and any pattern is going to be folded and squished up around my neck, so really, it is just the overall effect of the yarn, and this is fine.

I considered the Irish Mesh Cowl, given the Three Irish Girls yarn, and that would have looked nice as well.