Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode 78, which we are recording on Monday, December 22nd.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And what are you wearing today, Charlene?

I am wearing my cupidocal by Hiroko Fukatsu.

Heroku Fukatsu is the designer who also designed the Hito Fuday cardigan that you and I and

many others have made.

And the cupidocal is one of her patterns, and it is actually a free pattern available through ravelry.

It's a little cowl kind of, I made mine kind of smaller, and I knit mine in the 100% cashmere from raveling rose that I talked about several episodes ago.

It's a reclaimed cashmere, or cashmere reclaimed from sweaters, commercial sweaters.

And the raveling rose woman unravels these sweaters and in some cases redies the yarn and puts the

yarn up for sale on Etsy and also through Churchmouse which is where a friend of

mine purchased this yarn for me. That's so pretty. It's really nice. The nicest little halo to it. It looks so soft. It looks like you just want to pet it. It's really soft. And I think the pattern was written for a yarn that's a larger gauge. Mine is fingering. And I just adapted it. It's a cowl. It's easy to do. There's a little stitch pattern as long as you stay within the correct multiples. I can't remember if it was four or two. So you just stay within the correct number of multiples. I adjusted the cast on number and voila. Wonderful little warm cow.

Cajmere, squishy, lovely nice.

Right around your neck where, ooh.

Yeah, it's actually, it's probably in the 60s out.

We're having a, it's nice and blue skies today, but it's a little.

Blue skies just appeared.

The fog's just clear.

It's been foggy.

It's crazy.

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