Knits

I am finally done with the Cinnabar scarf. I have weaved in the ends and it is now blocking and then I will trim off the remaining bits. I wanted to get this done before I went to Prague on Wednesday because I don’t really have a nice scarf anymore. The one I have was nice, but I use it daily for cycling so it’s stretched out and probably slightly smelly and it’s not a nice neutral colour either.

This was probably the most challenging thing I’ve knit thus far. I don’t know why that is because it’s not a complicated pattern (despite my rocky start with reading the chart). The last repeat (I did nine) and the end bit of the ’seafoam’ chart took me serious amounts of time. I don’t know why. Maybe because I was so eager to get done and I could see it right there in front of me and I just wanted it done! I can now say I’ve knitted a scarf though - something I never did.

Because I’d put the thing down so many times, I couldn’t quite remember what I did each time so my version has a lot of, uh, design features. Namely, between each of the cable repeats there is only a single repeat of the seafoam pattern instead of 1.5 repeats. I made a number of other mistakes too, but they aren’t really noticeable because I continued to make them (ON PURPOSE - okay only after I realised I was making the mistake did I continue with it - consistently ‘wrong’ is better than sometimes wrong, sometimes right I say). As I said, I did a total of nine repeats of the main cable pattern. Before blocking the scarf measured just a couple inches shy of five feet. I’ll have to measure it once it’s dry to see where it’s ended up.

I can’t recall if I mentioned already, but I’m not going forward with Shedir until I get a different colour of Calmer. The black is well, too dark. I know that sounds completely retarded, but I’ve not done tiny cables before and they just don’t really show on black. I’ll get one of the green shades since that’s what my sister would prefer anyway.

I’ve decided to cast on another hat for her (still have a lot of them to do!). I had great success with pattern for Lonnie’s sport socks from Becka so I am going to try her Touch of whimsy hat. I am also going to cast on, I dunno when exactly, for Cosmicpluto’s top-down raglan cardi v.2.0.

I’ll provide a picture and details of the Cinnabar scarf once it’s done done. Until then, more delicious wool I got - this time it’s for a baby blanket and a hat and / or booties for my brother and his girlfriend who are expecting in May - that means I have a little bit before I need to get knitting this. It’s is sooooooooo pretty - wonderful colours and soft and fluffy.

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