My Ruana

Gina is one of the women who works at my local yarn shop (LYS), A Good Yarn Shop. She designed this Ruana and asked if I'd like to test knit it for her before the beginning of the new year (2011) as they wanted to use the pattern for their Monday Morning Knit-Along. I was thrilled to do so. My payment was the yarn required to make the Ruana.

When we returned from our trip to Florida I went back to the shop for the Thursday's Social Knitting Group and the Ruana had been blocked and waiting for me.

As I am not able to photograph myself wearing it, Ian graciously agreed to be my model. So, here it is, completed. The yarn was Eco-Wool (I think from Cascade?) and the color was Natural (I like to call it oatmeal, because, in reality, that's what it looks like, although in the photos it looks more on the gray side).



The pattern was written to have the left side be plain stockinette stitch. However, I so liked the cables, that I decided to put the cables down both portions of the front.