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Keep your friends close…

…your enemies closer, and your knitting tools…closer yet!

Knitting tool necklace

While I’m working my Peekaboo motifs, I need stitch markers, and a cable hook for working the brioche 4 stitch decreases. I’m not always sitting next to a table, so it’s easier to wear my tools on me.

This is just a silk cord with a hook finding (it’s half of a necklace fastener; there’d be a little ring to slide onto that silver J). It can hold stitch markers that I use to note where a motif begins and ends. The gold cable hook can hang on the silver J, too, or in the little loop that the silk cord is threaded through. The decorative pink stitch marker is for weight, so that the necklace hangs down instead of flopping around.

Each of the motifs on the Peekaboo Cowl had me using the cable hook. Having that hook on my person kept it handy!

The same is true for the Peekaboo Shawlette (coming soon).

How do you keep your cable needle/cable hook handy? I don’t use one for most cabling, but when I need it, I need it!

More peeking

I love my little peekaboo motif so much. I couldn’t let it go yet. Brioche plus assigned pooling is my current obsession. (Did you see my Peekaboo Cowl?)

With a little fiddling, I can work it from the right side *and* the wrong side. Again, reversible, and different yet attractive from either side. This shawlette is knit with two skeins of fingering weight yarn, one of which is dyed for assigned pooling. I used Singles Fingering from A Chick That Knitz in Forget Me Not (pooling) and Glenhaven. It’s light and cozy at the same time.

I’m looking for a few test knitters for this shawlette. Are you interested? Let me know!