Ripping

Here is a glimpse of the vortex cowl i slowly have worked on for the last months. If you look at the authors pattern she uses 4 colors for the stripes. I had tried to get the same effect by using a varigated yarn. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/vortex-cowl/slideshow?fullscreen=1&start=29991217 I was also trying to save money and only got two colors. With christmas etc i put it down for a while. Recently i grabbed it and took it to work for lunch break knitting. The colors weren't working for me. It looks cool but is not the effect i wanted. Plus i probably only had 8-10 inches and it is a long cowl!  I believe i heard something on the knitmore girls podcast like " if you don't like it now, you won't like it in x amount of rows". I realized it was probably true. I didnt like it enough to continue working on it and had started thinking socks might be a better use for the two skeins. 

So. Last night I ripped it! I started with the varigated purple to make a hitchhiker shawlette. Martina Behm is the creater. I also like the Trillian pattern she has.  I hope the colors will look okay. So far (I have only done one pattern repeat) it looks good, but time will tell. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hitchhiker/slideshow?fullscreen=1&start=14067097

Hopefully this links will work (Blogging on my phone) but you can also just google them for pictures.