Greyhound Snood
Finished
May 26, 2012
June 10, 2012

Greyhound Snood

Project info
Dizzy Lily: A Snood For A Hound (Greyhound) by Erssie
Knitting
PetAccessory
Diane's (burpdog's) Greyhound Angel Network
Medium
Needles & yarn
US 8 - 5.0 mm
Knit Picks Comfy
109 yards in stash
1 skein = 109.0 yards (99.7 meters), 50 grams
3414
Blue
Knit Picks
May 8, 2012
Notes

Reserve 80 inches for the bind-off on the medium size, and you can knit every inch of your yarn to that point.

I’m a few rows shy of the full length (11 inches rather than 12), using all 109 yards of this skein. This means I can get a decent-sized snood from other single skeins of Knit Picks Comfy Worsted; Lion Brand Wool-Ease will have enough for a larger size with yardage to spare. But I’m not crazy about the Comfy for this project; there’s no resiliency to the Comfy: stretch out the ribbed section and it stays stretched.

I’m following the pattern and using the recommended needle size.

Final is 11 inches long (unstretched), and I knitted 65 or so rows before I hit the end of the yarn and needed to bind off; pattern called for 69 rows. (And that “65” is an estimate; I’m not sure I clicked my row counter every time.)

Note that when you cast on, you’re knitting the top part of the snood; the cables to tighten the circumference are the midpoint of the snood; the buttonhole slit for a leash comes after the cables, and any extra (or not-knitted because out of yarn) rows fall at the bottom end of the snood.

Finished snood sold for $64 in the GAN auction.

(Restarting on 26 May 2012: Had a circular that was uncomfortably just-too-long and was distorting the knitting. {Next time: Hiya-Hiya interchangeable tips with short cable; not fixed circular.} Also, I’ve found I’d rather C4F than C4B on the cables when I’m cabling without a cable needle. And--as if I needed another problem--I dropped a stitch and had no interest in fixing the drop while the existing problems were still around. I’ll change to C4F on the redo.)

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Finished
May 26, 2012
June 10, 2012
 
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Worsted
75% Pima, 25% Acrylic
109 yards / 50 grams

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  • Project created: May 20, 2012
  • Finished: June 11, 2012
  • Updated: July 21, 2012
  • Progress updates: 2 updates