Harpsichordian: Ready to wear

My first completed project of the year comes via Ravelry. If you knit or crochet, I highly recommend this place. I haven’t utilized all the features it offers its users, but there are great ways to organize your stash, needles and hooks, and it’s easy to keep track of patterns you like, those you are working on and any you have completed. It is also one of those sites that make you realize you could be doing so much more in your evening craft comas, and that thousands of people have loads more patience than you do. Nevertheless, a wonderful resource for free patterns.

This project was described as “all the rage in Sweden last winter.” Scandinavian endorsement is powerful, let me tell you. That simple phrase inspired a rather vivid mental picture of me frying potatoes in duck fat on a boat with Andreas Viestad in preparation for an outdoor dinner party on the isle of Gotland – both of us wearing whatever was all the rage in Sweden last winter.

Believing a simple kerchief could help me get through another Spokane winter in its ability to give me that native Nordic look, I made it in record time. (For me.) And probably because all I had to do was knit a triangle.

Drab winter wardrobe: meet your festive new friend.