“Happiness is a warm gun, mama…”

So for my first real post I thought I’d do a little “how-to”, or at least share one of my little projects. This project is a really quick knit piece, and its the perfect time of year to learn to knit if you don’t already know.

I love neckwarmers, and recently I’m seeing them everywhere. Last winter my mother knit me a really cool one in dark gray Voodoo yarn by Patons (now discontinued). This year however, it seems like everyone has one! They’re all over Etsy, and Brooklyn Tweed even recently posted about them. I had been working on a scarf but decided to end it early and make a neckwarmer instead. Now, I am really not a fantastic knitter. I can do basic stuff but I can’t do cables or anything fancy, so this is a basic neckwarmer. A trained monkey could make this!

Neckwarmers are great for weather when you don’t want to wear a heavy scarf or a heavy hooded sweatshirt. They just button or snap on, and then can be taken off again anytime.

All I did was cast on around 24-30 stitches (I can’t honestly remember how many, but since the height is really the width, just make it as high as you want it to come up… i.e. over your chin, etc) on size 11 needles, and did a pattern of knit 2, purl 2 all the way across making sure to end on a purl and start on a knit for each row. When it was as long as it needed to be to wrap around my neck, it was time to bind off and find some buttons.

My buttons are all black, but mismatched on purpose. I have five buttons going from big to small up the front of it, and they’re all different. You of course can use as many buttons as you like, three big ones, six small ones, whatever!

If you’re a really advanced knitter, this can be as complicated as you like. But for the beginner or the person who just enjoys knitting simple patterns, this is perfect and easy. I made this is a really affordable black yarn, but I’d like to make another in a fancier yarn.

As far as the website goes- its not quite done yet. I have many links to sort out and get in order, and lots of stuff to do. I’m impatient however, so I wanted to start posting as soon as possible. So please excuse any “mess” or anything that doesn’t work.

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