3 posts tagged “scarf”
Three new scarves posted in my Etsy shop, more coming soon.
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
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My So Called Scarf (Heathcliff)
50% silk, 50% merino wool, 100% soft, warm, and gorgeous!
Cloud Around My Neck (Dark Denim Blue)
100% baby alpaca. sooooo soft...
READY
10: K1, *sl 1, K1, psso but before dropping slipped st K into back of it* K1.
20: *P2tog, do not sl sts off needle, P first st again, sl both sts off needle*
30: GOTO 10
RUN
see the start of the project and the stitch pattern detail here.
Awhile back I saw a sample scarf in a yarn store that was absolutely gorgeous, but it took me 15 minutes of internal debate to convince myself it was actually knit and not crochet. Even then I had no clue how to do it – was it knit horizontally? Vertically? The pattern was advertised as free with the purchase of a skein of yarn… and of course the yarn was what I consider crazy expensive ($32.95). So then I spent another 15 minutes debating whether to buy it or not…
I bought it.
Anyway, get to the paying part and ask about the free-pattern-with-yarn, thinking it is from the yarn manufacturer or was designed by someone in house or something. The gal turns to the computer, goes to a website, and prints the pattern. As in, I could have gotten it without buying a skein of yarn if I’d known where to look. The yarn I bought wasn’t even the yarn the pattern calls for – I’m using Lorna’s Laces ‘Lion and Lamb’ 50% silk 50% wool yarn with size 9 needles instead of what the pattern calls for. But OMG this yarn is GORGEOUS and SOFT.
Anyway, the pattern looks crazy complicated, but it is actually insanely easy. After doing the first 2 rows a couple times, I don't need to follow the pattern and I can work on it in autopilot without meticulously counting stitches on every row like my other work-in-progress, which I can't detail here because it is a Christmas gift for someone I know reads my blog. Anyway, I expect I’m going to make many more of these (using more than one skein of a less expensive yarn) and experiment with making them wider and longer (I like long scarves, and this is going to end up being a fairly short and narrow scarf when its done).
I got this done over a hair appt today.
