12-01-2016

No one’s ever going to accuse me of enjoying casting on almost 300 stitches and then joining in the round without twisting. With fingering weight yarn. But I can see that the yarn is going to be lovely with this pattern.

13-01-2016

Fucking hell. I spent an hour and 15 minutes casting on 280 stitches and verifying that the yarn wasn’t twisted on the first and second rows and, guess what, the yarn is twisted. Whatevs. I’m calling it a design feature and keeping on.

16-01-2016

So I love this pattern - just wished I hadn’t twisted the stitches. Next time I make this, that will not happen. I’m going to buy a titanium needle with a better cord (not so twisty) in the hopes of ameliorating the situation next go round.

At the pattern half way point (presuming I were going to make the full, large size - and that’s not possible due to yardage in my stash), I had used 51 g of my original 83. This leaves me with 28g to do the rest of the scarf. That should be doable when I cut out one of the eyelet repeats (as I intended to do from the start).

17-01-2016

Whoa - this went wrong every which way but it’s not because the yarn or pattern were defective. It just all went sideways for no good reason. In the end, the finished project will make a nice gift for someone, but I cannot look at it without seeing the micro-errors and the stress.

In the end I was about 3 yards short of yarn, necessitating one rip back of 10 rows (from the BO row) in order to remove a row in the right spot. Alas, that still didn’t get me all the way through bind off. I ended up using a double-strand of the Koigu KPM in white that I have remaining in my stash to complete the last 25 per cent of the BO row. Strangely, it doesn’t look bad. Nor does that unfortunate twist of the stitches.

27-12-2016

I’m probably going to put this out on the lawn because it just doesn’t meet my standards but rpping it back would be unpleasant and the colour is pretty, but tricky to use.

Update: Actually put it in box of clothes for charity.