FO Friday - Leon's winter set 2024

And just in time too, the chill has arrived here. For Leon's 2024 winter set I decided to knit the Winding Road Hat and Scarf pattern by Teniana Ortuta Designs. I don't really know where I came across the pattern, but it looked interesting, but not so complicated I couldn't knit it in public, because I knew I was knitting the whole set while travelling. Full trip report here if you would like to hear about things other than the knitting. I started the hat before we left, I wanted to check that the needles and yarn worked well together. I'm glad I did, because I decided I liked it better all knit on 4mm needles, so I didn't have to carry extra needles.

I made up a pair of mitts - cast on 36 stitches, 12 rounds plain rib, start a thumb gusset and hat chart at the same time. reverse the pattern for the second one:

When we went to The Yarn Trader I bought a "matching" skein of sock yarn, from local dyer Colagirl Collective.

I finished the mitts before we left for Adelaide and cast on the scarf in the car on the way to the airport.... well I cast it on the second time, the first time was out to lunch with my friends before that, and I can't count at lunch.

I finished the scarf at the end of our hike, and was very happy to have this skein of yarn, which Leon kindly wound the yarn into a ball for me and I cast on a p[air of socks with the same pattern - 64 stitches, top down, heel flap and gusset, pattern applied the the far side of each leg and mirrored.

It's hard to see in these photos - looks great in real life though!

The only unusual thing about these socks is that I knit them on magic loop and didn't hate it. Normally I find magic loop a pain, but this time it was nice - which is good, because with knitting in public, outside, and on various modes of transport it's easy to drop a needle.

I finished kitchenering the toe of these in the taxi from the airport, which felt like a very neat end to a fun holiday and a pretty good winter set.

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