I love knitty and Franklin Habit’s adventures in vintage patterns. I also love cowls and plaid and happened to have all that Grace laying around. Yay! Using size 4 needles because that’s what I have.
Heres how I organized the colors:
C1 ginger
C2 azure
C3 tangelo
C4 lilac
C5 terracotta
2013-12-06: This is a quick project-I’m already almost finished with the first set of stripes! I am using a technique I learned when I made a Dr Who scarf(Tara Carstensen) about weaving in ends as you work. It saves a lot of time later and the piece looks great. I’m also taking Habit’s advice about carrying a color within 4 rows. Look at me, planning, reading directions! I should do that more often.
2014-6-12: I took out the too-short vertical rows and made more that are the correct length. I’ll weave everything in (again) then follow the directions more closely. hehe

2013-12-23: I ran out of the ginger, so I used lime I found in my stash. I like the color changes a lot. Sewing in the vertical stripes is fun but I may have done so too tightly, since when I went to try it on after a whole set of them it won’t fit over my head. I think I can just loosen them, but I need to take a break first…I also think I cast on 84 instead of 74. Sheesh. Still, I like it, I’ll salvage it soon.
2014-6-30: I’m going to have to break down and buy more colors. Now I’m almost out of the blue. I’ll buy more mint and more blue and do the stripes over again, and not worry about the color changes and running out of yarn. Whew! A project to learn from, but a fun one.