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02/28/2006

yay an FO!

Last week I was going a little crazy, being on break from student teaching, having nothing to do, and not doing any knitting...So I decided to knit something very simple, that I could pick up and work on in short spurts, just to see how my hands were doing. I wanted to knit a scarf with my handspun yarn - I had two mostly blue skeins, and two mostly red skeins, and not too much yardage, so I decided on 8 stripes, 2 with each yarn, alternating blue and red, and trying to use about half of a skein for each stripe but not really being too careful about the stripes all being the same lengths. I used size 15 needles and garter stitch. It's about 6-7" wide and 6' long - this is longer than I expected. I was planning on adding fringe, but with all this length I'm not sure! I've been wearing it and liking it without fringe for now. It's been especially helpful in the cold in the past few days!

I think I love it. It's chunky and kind of loud and kind of not loud. I love the light blue with the red - it looks especially good nice and crazy against a long, plain black coat.

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You scarf looks great and soft! You should be very proud of the yarn and the scarf.

Posted by: Lori | 03/02/2006