03-02-2018

Tonight I did the cast on, and the first 3 rows, and the first row of the repeat series. Then I decided to start over because I knit it wrong, and throughout the first 3 rows, I couldn’t remember which way to wrap my yarn over the needle before pulling it through the loop. That was the thing I struggled with most when I took the class about a year ago. I’m trying to figure out a hint that helps me remember which way to wrap it, but right now I cannot come up with a term that helps.

03-06-2018

It doesn’t look like much of anything right now, but this is a big deal. I have learned so much in the past few days. I have the knit stitch figured out. The k2tog is really difficult, sometimes working that stitch takes a very long time to get my needle under both stitches. One of my needles has a tip that’s more blunt than the other so poking is tough. I love placing the bead. I don’t know what I originally bought the beads for, but they look nice on the green.

03-12-2018

Alright, I like what I’ve done. My process seems weird to me though. I have the knit stitch down, but I haven’t seen anybody work a purl the way I do. I’m pretty sure it’s correct so I guess it doesn’t matter how I do it as long as I do it.

03-20-2018

Making great progress. I don’t have much speed, and I’ve made a couple boo boos, but I think I’ve done fairly well for my very first official project.

04-01-2018

I missed a bead row today, but that’s alright. I’m not ready to learn how to tink back so I’ll live with it.

07-07-2018

Time to get working on some wips.

08-24-2018

I think I can finish this in a week. I’ve made a mess of this scarf. A couple weeks ago I went to knit night and forgot the crochet hook I was using to place my beads. I decided this segment of my scarf just wasn’t going to get any beads that night. Last knit night, I garter stitched a row, and decided not to worry about it. This scarf isn’t really going to be wearable after I’m finished, but since the entire purpose of this project was to learn -- and I have -- then I’m going to call this a resounding success!

08-31-2018

Hey! I’ve knit as far as I care to go. I have a smidge of yarn left, but I didn’t want to work on this past today so I found a BO video and called it quits. I don’t think I would wear this in public for all the mistakes, but I’m going to block it and save it as a momento.

Apologies to Faith Schmidt for murdering her beautiful pattern. I hope more experienced knitters will try this pattern to show everybody how fun and easy it really is to make this scarf.