01-20-2018

Neither photo accurately reflects the actual color of the finished piece. It is a deep purple with forest green highlights (you can see them clearly in the washed-out photo). The pattern is designed to be knit with two to three yarns of varying textures held together. I used three skeins that had lost their labels, which is why the yarns aren’t named here. The primary yarns are a sock-weight purple wool, a sock-weight green of mixed parentage, and a light purple filament yarn of something man-made. They look good together.

I finally finished this scarf, which just goes to show you that a good pattern will always win out. This is NOT a hard pattern to knit. The issues I had with it were:

a) when changing directions at the center point of the scarf, that row determined the final width of the scarf because it didn’t pull in like the other rows did. This was no big deal. When I washed and blocked the scarf, the scarf relaxed to that width anyway.

b) The pattern rows are kind of long to read. I ended up copying the page, cutting out the rows that are repeated, copying them with four to a page, and then using a highlighter to mark off each right side row as a finished it so that there was a clear line below the next row I was knitting in pattern. Otherwise it was SO easy for my eye to wander up or down a line.

I found no errors. This was a relatively fast and easy pattern. It only took me so long because I was working on so many other things at the same time when I started it, deep in graduate school and parenting adolescent boys when I came back to it, and then graduation was followed by a 2.5 year dry period in which I knit nothing. When I picked up the needles again this fall, I have been knitting entirely from stash or unfinished projects, and it has been very satisfying.