Ribwarmer

Here is the Ribwarmer from Knitting Workshop. I made several modifications to the pattern- some things worked well, some worried me exceedingly until they all blocked out.
Knowing this was being made for a small person I changed the gauge from 4 sts/in to 5, but I did the math and kept the length specs the same as EZ's original. Unblocked it was too small, but garter stitch is wonderfully obliging and it blocked to the size I wanted.

I also made did the short row miters much square-er than EZ calls for. On the fronts she says go down to 15 sts then start going back up. It wasn't laying flat at all so I ended up going all the way down to 5 sts before I started going back up. On the back miters I went down to 2 sts. Even these were curling up, but again, blocking saved the day.

I wanted to make the back all in one piece so I picked up stitches from my cast on edge and knitted the second half directly onto the first. When the first half of the back miters were both finished I joined everything and worked back over 2 sets of short rows at the same time. I think Meg includes instructions for something like this in the Spun Out pattern, but I don't have that so I just did what made sense to me.
I intended to put on an I-cord border but I procrastinated and ran out of time. I decided to just crochet a border on instead (sorry EZ!), which took less than an hour. I'll try an I-cord next time.
The yarn is Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool- 65% wool, 35% silk- one strand each of plum and rust held together on sz. 6 needles. Heavenly soft. I hope the recipient likes it!