3 posts tagged “scarf”
So, I am rushing to finish a lace scarf/stole for Mother's Day. I was trying an experiment and knitting it in the round with the plan to drop stitches at the end to make the fringe. Perhaps lace is too strong a word -- it is stockinette, sock yarn, and size 9 needles. And it was taking me twenty minutes to complete one round so I had put in at least 11 hours when --- a stitch was caught and pulled out. We are not talking a small pull we are talking feet of yarn, my scarf looked like an open-ended drawstring bag. "Don't panic," I thought. "You can fix this."
No, I couldn't. I tried pulling what I thought was the errant thread at a further point to help (!!!) the process but it was a different thread so now I had two hideous pulls. And the part that I had un-pursed looked like crap anyway so I decided to let it go. I haven't frogged it yet but that's its future.
I have had the yarn (3 balls of expensive Touch Me Due) for the Minimum Scarf from The Knit Stitch by Sally Melville (love that book) forever. I had started it with two balls thinking I would just make it shorter than the pattern (which calls for four), bought a third when I realized it would be way too short, then frogged it after finishing one ball which showed me it would still be too short with three.
I cast-on 24 rather than the 32 called for (3/4 stitches for 3/4 the yarn so hopefully) and have been knitting like mad since last night. I've put in around three hours and have over 15 inches (the final length should be close to 39 inches) so I still have hope I can mail it off to my mother in time. And I received the fun scarf pin I purchased for Mother this weekend (all the way from Canada) so perhaps the stars are in alignment. I do have to felt the scarf after it is done which means a laundromat for me but I am feeling strong.
I did finish a scarf for myself. Lengthwise scarves are great. I know it is the same number of stitches as a scarf knitted the usual way but without as much turning of the project it felt faster. I used two colors of a yarn I first saw and loved in Yarnplay called Filatura Di Crosa 127 print and made a simple garter stitch scarf.
Well, I thought it would be brilliant for my co-worker's dog to model it since she has similar coloring but she was much more interested in treats. She's a sweetie and I wish she visited the office more often. She is a coonhound though and every once in a while let's loose a bay that rattles the windows.
Here is a non-modeled version draped artistically around a bookend.
... is that I finished none of them. I started hating the striped one so I unraveled it and made a hat for my friend in New York out of the cream colored yarn. One of my partners kindly modeled it for me. You can't see it but I used the decreases used in the Half Dome hat which don't spiral. With this thicker yarn they weren't a total success but I still liked them.
As for the other scarves, I still think they were a great idea but I just ran out of time. And I'm thinking of frogging the ribbed one to make a slipped stitch pattern I like instead. The colors are a continuing exploration of bright colors with bright colors. I've always had a bit of color around but always paired it with something muted, usually black. An example of my new style is a hat I knit for myself using the same yarn as the unfinished Xmas scarves. The pattern is a K6P6 rib and I had to make it twice because the
first one was huge (I don't like tight hats and I have a big head but, come on, it looked like I was wearing a placemat balanced on my head).
