23-01-2016

I wrote an comprehensive post (great detail) about how to apportion yarn by weight to each of the sections of this scarf. See: http://line4line.blogspot.ca/2016/01/when-stash-busting-g...

25-01-2016

Once you organize the yarn, this can be a very quick - and painless - knit. It’s back and forth stockinette. Not the most interesting work but watching the colours take their pattern is very pleasant. And the finished scarf has the potential to be really gorgeous.

31-01-2016

Still have to weave in the ends and block the finished scarf but I have high hopes for the end result. The colour gradation is beautiful. I only wish I’d used up more of the steel (though it really is less fun to knit than wool) and that my yarn didn’t have halo. I’m just not nuts about the feeling of alpaca.

05-02-2016

Suggestions for next time you make this:

• Make the steel wool sections longer (equivalent to the other 4) - 12g x 2 or 12g x 3 of lace-weight yarn per section. Total grams of lace weight yarn needed @156g where 50g of yarn is equivalent to @440 yards.

It’s a great looking scarf - which blocks very nicely and gets quite plump and soft - but there’s not enough impact with the steel yarn sections (and I want to use up that yarn already).

27-12-2016

This garment is really special. Sent it to my mum for Xmas…