I recently started working on a beautiful, open-work cowl. The pattern is called A Nobel Cowl, by Emily Kausalik, and is published for free on Ravelry. It has the most beautiful shield pattern, and I knew it would be perfect for the the Classic Elite Lush that I had picked up over at Article Pract (which is sadly closing within the year). It also looked fairly easy to make, though it was marked intermediate*.
I knew (or thought I knew) how to do most of the stitches, and just went to YouTube to learn how to ssk, or slip-slip-knit, a decrease stitch. I was confident enough in my ability to perform the k2tog and yo to get started without much hesitation.
The pattern states that it is in sets of fifteen. Having only one skein of yarn, I decided to reduce the number of stitches to 105, and make mine a bit shorter. I got started, but noticed that I was working in sets of nineteen, and that by the time I made it to the end, I was only able to get ten of the last set of "fifteen" in... I reached out (kind of... more like complained on Instagram), and was told that the pattern was indeed worked in sets of fifteen stitches, not the nineteen that I was getting. I was completely perplexed, but just kept going for the full twenty-eight rows of the pattern, only to see this mutant looking merger where the whole patter meets half a pattern. You can imagine my disappointment, confusion, and frustration.
