And after all the rushing around like a crazy person to get this job done, the fact that I look fantastic in this shot makes me wicked happy.  We won’t talk about the other dozen shots…or those dozen double chins…

Not everyone is a handknit-wearing kind of person.  And unfortunately people like me often want to knit projects that we think would be perfect for so-and-so, but knowing they’re not a handknit-wearing kind of person stops us.  One day last year, my aunt remarked on a cowl I was knitting, and said something along the lines of “I’d wear one of those if you made it for me.”  The obvious course to take lay before me.

After taking into consideration what I liked to knit, and I thought she would like, I bought some yarn (elann’s Superwash Chunky, which is now just about sold out), and CO a true moebius, in a feather-and-fan stitch pattern.  As the pattern took hold, within the first ten rows, it looked so much like a coronet, like a queen would wear.  Perfect for the aunt in question, and also a pattern worth writing.  So I took copius notes (made a huge error in the first FO, which I had to work around by the time I realized it was there).  Then I wrote an real pattern, tested it, and had it tested.  While life got in the way and I haven’t finished my 2nd attempt, (this time in Malabrigo Merino Worsted), the pattern is complete, and the finished result is Queen Moebia. Pictures are, alas, forthcoming. But I’ll get there, I promise.